CEO reveals simple question he asks all candidates: They 'don't get the job' if they answer yes

A apical exertion CEO has revealed nan 1 important mobility he asks each campaigner during occupation interviews. 

Gary Shapiro, caput of nan Consumer Technology Association (CTA), precocious stated that a incorrect reply to his mobility tin instantly disqualify a campaigner from consideration.

Shapiro told CNBC that he asks each applicants really soon they could commencement their caller role.

If they opportunity they tin commencement successful little than 2 weeks 'they don't get nan job, because they'll dainty america nan measurement they dainty that erstwhile employer,' nan 68-year-old explained.

Shapiro emphasizes that really group time off their erstwhile jobs is simply a 'really important' facet successful his hiring decisions. 

'I want an [employee] pinch a level of committedness to their organization, moreover if they don't emotion their job, wherever they won't time off their employer hanging,' nan longtime CEO told CNBC. 

Shapiro, who has been astatine CTA for 33 years, said he precocious utilized nan mobility erstwhile hiring nan company's caller main operating officer. 

The successful applicant told him that she would request up to six weeks to move from her existent role. 

'I was very thankful she answered [that way] I said, 'That's perfect. You sewage nan job.'' 

Shapiro did explain that nan pass-fail mobility is only applicable to applicants that are presently employed.

San Francisco-based executive and profession coach Joyce Guan West cautioned against utilizing nan mobility arsenic a standalone determiner connected a candidate's quality. 

'I would beryllium amazed if nan mostly of high-quality candidates, aliases candidates astatine a much elder level, would opportunity little than 2 weeks,' West told CNBC.  

'It seems for illustration benignant of a softball mobility that astir smart group are going to reply correctly.' 

However, she said it tin person immoderate merit erstwhile paired pinch different questions that tin amended gauge a candidates liking successful nan institution and suitability for nan role.

Meanwhile, a caller study revealed that 1 successful 4 Gen Z occupation seekers person brought their parents to their occupation interview, a caller study said. 

Francisco Tobon is simply a profession master pinch LinkedIn. He said bringing a genitor to a occupation question and reply tin beryllium perceived by nan imaginable employer arsenic unprofessional and effect nan chances of getting hired. 

Tobon told NBC Miami: 'It tin beryllium looked astatine arsenic unprofessional, deficiency of credibility. It could beryllium seen arsenic nan personification is not independent. The personification is not taking inaugural for their ain career, for their ain master journey.'