Applying for a Job at Crossover for Work
Who would want to work at a company so out of touch with reality?
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Imagine …
A Zoom meeting with Andy Tryba, CEO of Crossover for Work ...
Andy: “Okay people, we need to hire some new talent for a big client. I’m going to need someone who can get at least 40 questions right on a 50-question multiple-choice test in 15 minutes. Probably have to guess some of the answers because of the time constraint. Do we have someone who can do that?”
Right Hand Man: “Absolutely. Rob has all the test-prep files. I’ll ask him to start memorizing.”
Andy: “Great. Now I need someone who got good grades in school and can write 50 high-performing topic sentences in a Google spreadsheet.”
Right Hand Man: “I think Gabrielle would be good for that. I’ll ping her on Skype.
Andy: “Fantastic. We need to write a dozen job descriptions. Who knows the format?”
Suneel: “I do. I’ve written a few thousand of them. I have the Excel template. I always hit the word-count on the nose.”
Andy: “Perfect. Now, the client wants to know: six is 12 percent of what number?”
Sandra: “Fifty.”
Andy: “Very good, Sandra. How did you know that?”
Sandra: “You asked it in the last meeting.”
Andy: “Good attentiveness and retention. Now, we’re going to have to evaluate and rank about 500 candidates. Do we have the right keyword-recognition software?”
Danielle: “I just fed in the latest keywords and it’s ready to go, Andy.”
Andy: “Who is good at comparison questions, like “Proficient is to practice as …”
Everyone: “Strong is to Exercise.”
Andy: “Right, I always forget that one. Can you take those, Esmerelda?
Esmerelda: “I’m on it like brown on rice, Andy.”
The meeting goes on like this for another half hour, because this is what we need in businesses today — people who can follow instructions exactly.
