Interviewing for a New Marketing Job

[Essex_boy]

Interviewed this guy for a marketing job, 15 years of experience so should be good except;

All IT exams have been taken on the same day;
Previous role, updated windows, wrote some tweets and facebook postings - Mostly paraphrased news articles.
Didnt know that that Windows was a shell.
Had no idea about how random numbers are generated on computers (encryption) .
Unable to tell me when a Google advert should be stopped (Quality rating)
etc

One of the weakest candidates Ive ever seen, your experience's !

[graeme_p]

I am a bit confused. Is all that relevent for a marketing job?

[tangor]

It is all relevant to COMPETENCY ... and kids these days are not being taught skill sets, they are being taught social justice and "feelings".

Last time I hired for my company (long since sold off) the first requirement was "Applicants must be 40 years old or older, with 20+ years experience in field."

Needless to say that cut the noise level down tremendously. :)

Do that today and I'm sure some activist group would raise a stink for discrimination against the young...

[NickMNS]

Oh Boomer!

"Applicants must be 40 years old or older"

I guess I don't need to tell you that that is discriminatory and thus illegal.

Do that today and I'm sure some activist group would raise a stink for discrimination against the young...

The legality is nothing new, it was also just as illegal when you were doing it. But I guess knowing and abiding by the law isn't a COMPETENCY in your book.

[graeme_p]

@tangor, leave out the over 40, just have the 20 years experience requirement. You are not going to get a lot of under 40s with 20 years experience and you are allowed to ask for experience.

I get your point, passing IT exams should involve knowing this stuff.

Didnt know that that Windows was a shell.

Is it? AFAIK these days Window is an OS that is distributed with a shell.

[Essex_boy]

I am a bit confused. Is all that relevent for a marketing job?- Well I need some one with a deeper knowledge than this guy had hence the questions.

The amount of times Ive come across 'IT admins' that dont really know what they doing, its like having a tyre and exhaust fitter when you need a mechanic who can see what the problem and how it came about.

Guy here, said he was a 'manager' with '15 years of experience' when pushed he really didnt know what he was doing, the site he should us was a paraphrased site and he didnt understand why it might cause problems.

[tangor]

Heh ... Had a smarty pants show up with 20 years experience ... at age 21 ... 5 years IT, 5 years SEO, 5 years php coding, 5 years webmaster. :)

[Essex_boy]

That's impressive...

[tangor]

He thought so. :)

[tangor]

PS ... didn't get the job. Why? Asked what MARKETING contracts he had signed on a company's behalf at the ripe old age as a MINOR.

[LifeinAsia]

I remember the good ol' days (late 90s, early 00s) when you could get hired for a technical position if you could spell "IT."

Oh, and having a heartbeat was a bonus.

[explorador]

One of the weakest candidates Ive ever seen, your experience's !

Marketing? had the chance to witness hiring of people working in marketing: it was all promises, colorful resumes and lies, and all failed to keep their job for more than 2 months. In my region it is very common for people working on sales, marketing and finances to be actually broke. Sadly once you get to know 20 of them you know them all, something like that.

Long story... about work and real life cases: at one of the largest universities in my region the directors and teachers are pushing students to believe in Facebook campaigns and a way to get precise stats. It's all lies, enough to say the teachers and director HAVE NEVER EVER WORKED ON ANYTHING but teaching, they have ZERO field experience. I know this because I had to see their processes due to the work I'm doing. It's all lies. That's all about marketing.

About coders? ha, till this day it's all about wordpress, even if they don't have a personal site except a wordpress template somewhere.