Still another scenario...................?

Question

Scenario: You have two people coming in for a job interview at your pharmaceutical company. One is a man and one is a woman. You are looking over their resumes and you notice that their resumes are equivalent. You aren't sure which one you are going to hire. The woman arrives second and the man arrives first for their interview. After the interview, you decide that they did equally well during the face to face interview.

Question: Whom do you hire?

Rio: It's a pharmaceutical company because I just made it up that way. No real rhyme or reason.

Answer 1

Bah, I'd just flip myself. If I fall upside down, hire the man. Otherwise the woman.
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Doesn't matter much who arrived first as who arrived on time. If both are there when the time for the interview comes, the order means nothing; not enough info to decide, so flip myself. If none of them arrived on time, again, doesn't matter who came first. I rather wouldn't have to choose between two unpunctual persons..but, flip myself again. Finally, if the man came first on time, and the woman second and late, she better has a damn good explanation or will not get the job.

Answer 2

...Who would I hire?

The real answer, the one I've actually used in this scenario:

I'd hire the person that will bring the most balance to my staff. Meaning, if I have more men in the workplace at that time, I'd hire the woman, and vice versa.
Any time you have a business that deals with customer service or sales, you want a good representation of the public your employees are dealing with. Unless you own a business that caters mostly to men (or women) then you want to try to come as close to a 50/50 male to female ratio as possible. Obviously, you should take qualifications into consideration FIRST, but when you have candidates that are so close in qualifications (which happens quite a lot, actually) then you need to take your demographics into consideration.

Answer 3

a million. i'm particular Xena together with her chakram might desire to quit the practice, so why won't be able to Baba Yaga? i've got heard Baba Yaga has achieved some incredibly particular issues too. So do no longer anger her!!! 2. Xena might desire to deliver the chakram flying with the aid of a window and shrink the emergency chord (all trains have that and that they quit directly) 3. You never considered pointing out if the practice carried human beings or products. So i % products. We additionally could make the practice bounce off the tracks and kill the engineer(perhaps by no longer pulling the lever each and each of ways?) The engineer might additionally be fortunate and stay. besides assuming the engineer isn't additionally pregnant - it is definitely only one existence, mutually as the pregnant woman's is debatable even though if it is one or 2. And yet another element: the captain of a deliver is the final individual who gets saved so the engineer ought to sacrifice himself (or herself) besides. So my answer is: i attempt to divert the practice off the tracks and keep the two females. the guy (human beings) utilising it would've watched the place they are going, simply by fact then they might have been able to quit.

Answer 4

It seems to me the only relavant criterion you've got to work with at this point is punctuality. That being the case, you'd probably have to go with the man, unless they were alloted different times, the woman's being later or the difference in arrival times was a matter of less than five minutes.

In that case... I don't know. Flip a coin?

Answer 5

I would call both of them back in for a second interview, and before they come in, make a list of specific questions that you will ask them both. I would give them scenarios to think about, and have these scenarios relate to something that has to do with the job or perhaps interpersonal skills. (For example, you may want to ask how they would handle a customer complaint. Or maybe you could ask them how they would handle an ethical dilemma relating to the job.) Be sure to ask the same questions of each. Then after you get your answers, decide which one you think would be best for the job.

Just an idea.

Answer 6

Was the man one of the guys standing around watching two women on the train tracks? Then I'd hire the woman. Unless she was one of the women on the train tracks. Then I'd hire the man. Or I'd bring in more people to interview.

I DO work for a major pharma company and no one is hired on one person's say-so. So I'd take into consideration what HR, my manager and the people on my team have to say.

Answer 7

Question to you: Why is it a pharmaceutical company?

If I couldn't find a single thing that made one applicant more worthy of the job than the other (and I seriously doubt that there wouldn't be), my choice would depend on the amount of which sex we are currently short on in the company.

EDIT: Well, next time, you should make it a defense contractor.

Answer 8

This scenario has already been run experimentally and with various parametric variables. Usually, the most striking variable is, when the women is perceived as " nurturing " ( a caring, empathic person ), the bias against hiring men for the same qualifications, over women, disappears.

Answer 9

If the job can use two more people I'd hire both. If you only need one person, I would toss a coin.

Answer 10

What job are they interviewing for? Who are your customers? How much salary are they asking?

Are you a pharmaceutical sales, r&d, management, investment services, retail company?

BLAH BLAH.