{"id":338,"date":"2006-10-03T12:16:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=338"},"modified":"2006-10-03T12:16:28","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T17:16:28","slug":"work-life-balance-when-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/work-life-balance-when-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-life Balance When Hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Meaney from Recruiting.com has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recruiting.com\/acing_the_why_are_you_leaving_question\" target=\"_blank\">a great post<\/a> today unpacking a CareerJournal.com article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerjournal.com\/jobhunting\/interviewing\/20061003-mattioli.html?mod=RSS_Career_Journal&#038;cjrss=frontpage\" target=\"_blank\">Acing a Dicey Interview Question:Why Did You Leave Your Last Job?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Straight from Anthony&#8217;s keyboard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Work-life balance has become a key issue for people these days with employees striving for it and employers gushing about how their company supports work life balance. Yet we are supposed to look askance at candidates who want to knock two hours of commute time off their day? The only person who can legitimately scoff at shorter commute as a reason for leaving is someone who is doing a longer commute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t agree more. We are located in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul which features some of the worst commutes in the US especially with our large metropolitan area. The desire to shorten a commute to allow for more time away from work is a hallmark of Gen X and certainly for Gen Y.<\/p>\n<p>One other quote from the CareerJournal article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you list money as your main reason for leaving a current job, the hiring manager may think you are fishing for a counteroffer to win a higher salary, recruiters and hiring managers say. <\/p>\n<p>A candidate motivated most by money may be tempted to jump ship if another offer with a higher pay came along, says Melissa Fusi, a partner at Executive Staffing Inc. in Miami. Recruiters want to avoid placing &#8220;job hoppers,&#8221; she says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This approach may work in staffing, but we appreciate salespeople who are money motivated. The vast majority of strong salespeople are motivated by earning more money. I would have no qualms about a sales candidate who is looking to make more money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Meaney from Recruiting.com has a great post today unpacking a CareerJournal.com article titled Acing a Dicey Interview Question:Why Did You Leave Your Last Job? Straight from Anthony&#8217;s keyboard: Work-life balance has become a key issue for people these days with employees striving for it and employers gushing about how their company supports work life balance. Yet we are supposed to look askance at candidates who want to knock two hours of commute time off their day? The only person who can legitimately scoff at shorter commute as a reason for leaving is someone who is doing a longer commute. I couldn&#8217;t agree more. We are located in the Twin&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/work-life-balance-when-hiring\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-hiring-salespeople","category-interview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-5s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":484,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/energy-prices-and-recruitment\/","url_meta":{"origin":338,"position":0},"title":"Energy Prices and Recruitment","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"December 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"In a recent survey of 3,000 workers and hiring managers by Robert Half and CareerBuilder, almost 50% of the hiring managers think higher energy prices will hamper their ability to recruit skilled workers in the next year. 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