{"id":11214,"date":"2015-01-04T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T18:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=11214"},"modified":"2015-01-04T13:26:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T18:26:38","slug":"how-not-to-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=11214","title":{"rendered":"HOW NOT TO HIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kraton (NYSE:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/stock\/kra\">KRA<\/a>) in Belpre, OH had a help wanted sticker on my newspaper this morning.  Curious, I looked at their website and found this on the &#8220;Apply&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/kratonyourfuture.com\/uploads\/user_files\/EntryLevelOperatingTechnician.pdf\">page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There will be a $25 per applicant testing fee (due the day of the application) to defray some of the costs associated with testing all applicants. Cash or check will be accepted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They charge everyone $25 to put in an application in order to &#8220;defray&#8221; the costs of their recruiting?  Really?  Are they so strapped for cash that they cannot afford to pay for their own testing?  Whoever in HR thought that was a good idea ought to be shown the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kraton (NYSE:KRA) in Belpre, OH had a help wanted sticker on my newspaper this morning. Curious, I looked at their website and found this on the &#8220;Apply&#8221; page: There will be a $25 per applicant testing fee (due the day of the application) to defray some of the costs associated with testing all applicants. Cash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11216,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11214\/revisions\/11216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}