"Not Oksana", "Not younger than 30", "Devil in a skirt" and "Cavity-free". What strange requirements employers sometimes make to candidates: recruiters tell

Recruiter Anna Kotenko started an interesting discussion on LinkedIn about what requirements employers-clients set for potential employees.

« I spent the evening reminiscing about criteria that were really strange to me, which I had for all my years of work,» she wrote. And made public several interesting facts.

1. Not Oksana. «Excuse me, Oksana, it was the customer’s trigger. A former employee, Oksana, sent the manager to hell for asking to make changes to the project, so this name triggered for a long time. The problem with the name was worked out successfully, so a week later they called the first Oksana for an interview,» said Anna.
2. Not younger than 30. «Have you heard about reverse ageism? So I turned it around. And to be honest, until 30 they run to their dates, universities-sessions-diplomas (I didn’t say that). Arguments about the second/third higher education are not channels,» the specialist explains.
3. Teeth without caries. «In the 21st century, people are still chosen by the teeth for work, in the best traditions of slave times. I have no idea how I was supposed to check it. Actually, just like the customer. It seems to me that they wrote that point as a joke to see if I read the application for a vacancy,» comments Kotenko.
4. A healthy lifestyle, it is desirable to like to run. «Because it disciplines. I don’t know how it affects work skills, but there was no need to run in the position,» the recruiter explains this requirement.
5. To be obedient. I once wrote for this case with 50 shades of candidates and a full-time dominant.

Other hiring professionals have added stories to this list.

«I was once asked at an interview who I am according to my horoscope, because they don’t hire Aquarians because of the owner’s instructions: my ex-wife was of this sign and after the divorce they didn’t hire Aquarians,» said the founder of the consulting agency, Hanna Romanyshina .

And Yulia Yaselska, a recruiter, had a client who checked all candidates by birth chart. «That is, after meeting with the candidate, he asked to provide the date, time and place of birth. And on the basis of what came out, he gave feedback about employment. There was also an experience with a zodiac sign (by the way, the same manager),» she said.

Consultant Iryna Petrikeeva said that she had a request for a candidate with the following characteristics: «I need a devil in a skirt.»

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