No, actually I work in a field where we often interview 10+ candidates (AFTER the HR screening process) and STILL haven’t seen one who appears capable of the job. They have the appropriate degrees, they have “years of experience in a related field” but… they don’t seem (through the interview process) even remotely capable of learning the tasks at hand well enough to be a productive member of the team.
There are two possible explanation to this phenomenon come to mind. Either everyone is stupid zombie, and you’re the only one smart, intelligent, capable, uniquely so. Or, you, like a significant portion of non-qualified interviewers, suck at conducting the interview process which gives you an illusion that everyone is stupid and you’re smart, and you don’t want to do anything about it because being uniquely smart gives you good feelings that you don’t want to shatter.
No, actually I work in a field where we often interview 10+ candidates (AFTER the HR screening process) and STILL haven’t seen one who appears capable of the job. They have the appropriate degrees, they have “years of experience in a related field” but… they don’t seem (through the interview process) even remotely capable of learning the tasks at hand well enough to be a productive member of the team.
There are two possible explanation to this phenomenon come to mind. Either everyone is stupid zombie, and you’re the only one smart, intelligent, capable, uniquely so. Or, you, like a significant portion of non-qualified interviewers, suck at conducting the interview process which gives you an illusion that everyone is stupid and you’re smart, and you don’t want to do anything about it because being uniquely smart gives you good feelings that you don’t want to shatter.
You miss a third possibility: the capable employees are employed, the ones shopping their resumes are rejects for a reason.