Tough task for bank teller job prospects

I met a friend lately, in one of the corner cafeterias. Fellow recruiter he is.
I like these sorts of meetings,  when we can discuss what's going on in the business, how candidates became worse again, what's the point of making their lives more and more difficult and so on.

This time we started our discussion about women. He told me he met a wonderful women in an interview. He's actually outsourcing part of selection process for some of the biggest banks on the West coast.

He was participating on  the interview for a bank teller position lately, and there was a nice girl trying to get a job, using all she has, if you know what I am talking about. Her dress was pretty open, as far as I can imagine from his talk.
You know, he's married and all the stuff, he's pretty professional in his job, but once this kind of a woman enters the room, it's difficult to focus on your job.

But that's not all... Actually, once he asked her the question about her strengths, the reply was quite shocking:

I have all the strengths needed for this job, as you can imagine. There's just one weakness. I like so much to date the interviewers. I can not help myself, something attracts me on them amazingly.

Now that's the shock. There's this hot potato ready to be caught on the other side of the table. But you're in the job, earing more than hundred bucks per hour for being professional... Honestly, what would you do, looking in her blinking eyes, full of that?

As I know from the story, there was quite a silence in a room for about two minutes. Nobody said a word. The other interviewer, actually also a man, was quite impressed too. You know the imaginations men have in their minds in scenarios like that. You think about everything, just not about selecting a right candidate for this bank teller position.  

My friend act like not many would: He simply proceeded to another question, those one about choosing this bank.
Now the candidate went on, hitting the last nail in the coffin:

I chose this bank, because the sweetest interviewers work here. I would love to co-operate with such colleagues, especially over time. 

Now this was too much, as you can imagine. Despite the fact that something started to dance in his trousers, he simply thank her and said her he would give her a call. She asked for his business card but did not receive any.

Last look on her tight dress and she was gone... Never received a callback...
Now I am asking: Was he a professional, or a fool?
Difficult to say, I know. Depends on your preferences... If I was on his place, I would give her a callback, at least a personal one.

You know, probably she was applying for another job in another bank on another day. And making the same tricks, trying to have a shot on a good job with her preparation. But I doubt she will ever succeeds with this technique.
Maybe she will get a job, but that's not all. She will never be employed for what makes her a good teller, because the appearance can not be an answer in this case.
I know it, my friend knows it, but still - we doubt... I mean, who would not go at least for a touch?

   

My lost career and my obsession

It's been a long time since I was working as a recruiting manager. To be honest, i spent the last couple of years working in a totally different field.

Life is just like that - one day you're happy about your position, than something strikes you early in the morning and you decide to make a career change. 
i made a big leap, literally, to a field that I was totally unaware of. I stared to work in a business intelligence company.

I was just tired of interviewing people all day, so I believed this could be my chance, my new start. Also, despite the fact that I was meeting so many people on a daily basis, I could not start a normal relationship for more than two years... I felt pretty lonely actually.
You know how it goes with the working ethic... Yeah, I was meeting many beautiful women in the interview processes I quite successfully lead, but I couldn't really invite any of them for a coffee.

So the  new life has started. I believed i would be able to find my true love and my true calling in the new job waiting for me.
Well, I was wrong.
All I found out was that I got professionally sick. I mean, all meetings I had, I was leading an interview in my head.

When I found a new woman in this company, and there were plenty of beautiful women to say the truth, I just could not help myself - I was looking all the time for her strength and weaknesses, using all the techniques in the interview like I wrote about it here, and sort of could not get rid of this point of view, no matter how much I tried and wanted to. I become obsessed.  

I actually decided to visit a specialist, to help me with my problem. But you  know these doctors...
They just charge big do little.
in one moment I have been so tired of myself and of my problems, that I was actually thinking about ending my career completely and start a business.
However, I've never get quite a guts to  make such a move and do what it takes to make it happen.

So that's the story. And the lesson?
Sometimes we want to make a career change, in order to deal with a problem, that's not related to the work itself.
Like me - I wanted to progress in my personal life and changed a job just because of that.  However, it did not work. It never could... The problem was in myself, not in my job. And now I know, it's always like that.

Next time I get into the similar situation, I'll think twice and act once.
You know, I'll be so happy to get another chance. To be able to come back to my old job, maybe brake some  rules but at least do what I really love to do. However, it does not work like that in this economy Jobs of recruiting managers are pretty tough to get and once you let your position slip, there are hundreds of fishes waiting to take your spot, some sharks included...