woberto Report This Comment
Date: January 23, 2025 09:23AM

What is a "consultant position" supposed to be?
I would describe myself as a consultant and I have never had to do a job interview.
Consultants just get good at something and then businesses ask them to come and sort out their shit.
I mean, yeah you have dinner or drinks to discuss the scope, outcome, KPI's and reasonable expectations,
but that's to convince the consultant that they want the gig, not for the employer to interview.
For example, a Project Manager who gets the big bucks would have to interview. But once they get the job they then hire a few consultants to tackle various areas. The Project Manager has already come up with the big picture, the consultants figure out how to achieve it using the available resources (including training staff that hate change). I sure would love some of that Project Manger money but fuck that level of responsibility.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: January 23, 2025 11:01AM

Yeah then you'd have to deal with some asshole like me. You don't want that shit.

Peter Puller Report This Comment
Date: January 24, 2025 02:42AM

I've had a couple jobs like that:

1] The weekly newspaper thing where they wanted to see me at work for a week... basically finishing their issue for them. I got paid out of the office manager's pocket.

2] The computer store that would call an applicant, have them there for a week or two on a trial basis, then move to the next applicant. I was shown the stack of applications with some words to the effect of "we will never have to hire anyone to fill the position" by the manager.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: January 25, 2025 01:58AM

Yeah Peter that truly sux. I bet it happens a lot more that we hear about across lots of menial roles.