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JFC, job references going the way of grad school applications.
Grad schools, employers, HR departments: a form like this is an invitation for me not to think carefully about my answers. Quantity over quality? Fine, ask and ye shall receive.
Honestly wonder what kind of data these people think they’re getting from a form like this.
While the company isn’t getting good data, I sure am.
And the data I’m getting is “this company does not know how to run a hiring process, does not know how to gather or handle data, and does not understand human beings.”
Oh no, it’s worse than I thought.
That stinking pile of Likertrrhea isn’t just some terrible pet project of the one company doing the hire in question. It’s a vendor called SkillSurvey actually •selling• this garbage as a product — and after filling out their survey as a reference, I got a marketing email trying to sell their services to me! The sheer gall.
“Pre-Hire 360® workflow.” Dear lord.
The “measure, measure, measure” message has gotten completely out of hand. Again. For years now.
Oh, poor dears: quantifying is not the same thing as measuring.
Two bitter truths:
1. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.
2. You can’t measure the thing you want to manage.
(Why 2? Because you’re never, ever measuring exactly what you think you’re measuring.)
@inthehands except 1 isn't a bitter truth. You absolutely can manage what you can't measure.
Even Deming knew this and he's the source of the (mis) quote we all know.
https://deming.org/myth-if-you-cant-measure-it-you-cant-manage-it/
@mzyk83 You are taking my OP too literally, and too piecemeal. It’s a koan, not a guidebook.
(Spelling it: if you take “measurement” and “management” as MBAs are typically trained to do, then they render each other mutually impossible.)