well, didn't see any like that last time i was in Utah... you could fit 2 of the above in 1 of those i saw at receptions there, maybe it's an IT tech kind of thing, not hiring fit birds to represent the fat geeks inside of the company... the pearls for the swines thing ...

There ARE some very cute Mormon girls...

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i believe you Joe, like i said, it must be an IT thing then

Too bad you are not local Moses - I'd cut you a deal -

I run a temporary help company - every internal hires, except sales or management - go temp to hire at my company. Typically we keep them on temp payroll for 90 days - if they make it that far - then we make the committment to them for full time, benefits, etc.

Couple of good suggestions here - background checks - do em - nationwide - hire right - american backgrounds - first choice - just need one - but do them - I like to do them within the first three days of the assignment.

Temp to hire - excellent suggestion - take them the full term - 90m days temporary to hire. People can be on their best behavior for 45 days - even 60 - at 90 you have a pretty clear picture of the person you want to add to your family. On the front end - make sure there is no fee (conversion) after the 90 days - some companies try and hit you with one - just know up front.

Quality of the workforce - welcome to my world. on a given week - we interview between 350 and 450 employees. Out of that number - we will be lucky if 150 meet our hiring criteria. And our hiring criteria is pretty broad. We tell them to dress for an interview and they still show up in flip flops and cut off jeans.

Oh - and just so you know - if you hire in the 18-25 year old sector - be prepared in 6 months because they will want to know why they aren't running the company yet.

Oh, and BTW - title VII of the civil rights act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin;

Jeremy, Thanks for printing that. Is it OK to discriminate based on just physical appearance, as long as it's not related to one of the proscribed categories above? Everyone knows that it happens anyways; we all make judgments based on someone's appearance, (at least first impressions), and of course a receptionist is the face and voice of the office. I seem to remember Hooter's having a lawsuit regarding this, but I can't remember how it turned out.

In LA., employers are lucky as far as looks at least. There are enough hot, young women to staff every restaurant and clothing store in town, with enough left over to drive around in cars, cross the streets everywhere and work the pole at strip clubs.

I remember when I was interviewing medical assistants, OMG!

Picked the best one out of the 30 something I talked to, some young black chick, single mom.

Within a week she was in the lockup in San Jose or Stockton, some ****ing place. She left at lunchtime, said she had to go to some child support hearing and would be back in a few hours and never came back. Someone called claiming to be her mother, wanting her check, telling me she was "incarcerated" and was more than somewhat bent when I told her I would send the check to the address I had, and that I would not hold the job for 90 days until she got out.

Interviewed another 30 and got lucky.

Talked to a half dozen smokin' hot russian gals, but none of them spoke english well enough to want them around.

Mormons send their girls out to recruit new people, Muslims send their boys out to kill them. Hmmm

describe the job, not the person - general rule of thought - "front office position, will meet and greet clients, professional groom, ability to speak and communicate clearly and effectively must be able to present themselves and interface with executive staff on a daily basis." Pay a little more than the prevailing wage and you can usually have your choice.

Use a little common sense - and yes in Kali and Texas seems like you have a higher likelyhood to hire a smoking hot receptionist.

I really question the companies that skimp on this position. On many occasion - this is the first person clients (both internal and external) have contact with.

The Hooters lawsuit fell under the BOQ - Bona fide Occupational Qualification - same as wash room attendants - locker room staff. Part of the business model and one of the reasons people went to Hooters was because of the staff. Not some hairy dude dressed as a Hooters Waitress.

English is overated.

The last receptionist I hired was smokin' hot. I won't make that mistake again. The old hens who have been running the office for years carved her up. If you hire someone who is too pretty, too thin or too young, the old women will pick on her till she quits. Sad, but true.

I guess I'll settle for well groomed and competent. :(

That problem is very easy to solve - fire all the old hens and hire hotties. I'm sure there will be a line out the door to your practice.

Nah. My old hens are priceless. I have tremendous employees. Competent, loyal, smart. I wouldn't trade them for anything.

In my experience smoking hot = entitled and high maintenance = someone I wouldn't want as an employee.
YMMV

Also FWIW one of the best renters I ever had was a paralegal that was extremely neat, quite, and paid the rent on time every month... and he was FABULOUS if you know what I mean.

Not that there is anything wrong with that

Just thinking outside the box... did I just say that out loud?

What wage range are we talking about?

Unless you are too pretty, too thin or too young. ;)

I'm kidding around of course. Hiring a hottie, even a qualified one, is recipe for headaches. I wouldn't discriminate mind you.....

$18/hour. Full paid health insurance. Profit sharing plan. Three weeks vacation and 10 paid holidays.

not if you have them answering the phone in the United States
this happened to my wife when she was working for an allergist. She was smarter, prettier and younger. They were jealous of her because she was a nurse, the doctor trusted her to take care of patient calls, and to mix his injections after she had been there a few weeks, when they had been there for years. That doctor will regret that the rest of his career. Really competent assistant will make your life sooo much better.

His other nurse quit over the way things went down with my wife, so he lost two people trained to mix injections at essentially the same time and had to do that himself.


my office manager is like they, like solid gold she is

Yep, a buddy was a Hooters GM back then, I still have a poster & some decals some where.
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I have a friend looking for work right now, who, if you were local would be great.
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And she is smart too, But right now she is looking to get in the door.

One of my friends sent us a website that has a very cool intro. A girl walks out and forward, to tell about the company, looks cool, but she is wearing blue jeans:eek:?????????? I know, maybe I'm old school, but when you have corprate clients (and ours are from fish camps to upscale private clubs to major National corps) so we don't want to put out a "look"that will run off new high end clients.

I interviewed several young men for a mechancial job a few years ago, which paid around $60k a year.
I have one guy show up with an interpreter because he didn't speak english, at all. Adios and gracias.
I had one guy show up with his ball cap on sideways and his jeans down around his knees with his boxters showing, no way holmes.

If there are any military bases within a 30/40 minute drive, put an ad in the base paper, they all have one.

I'll pay for the ad if it doesn't pan out:)

that is a great suggestion

I wish there was a base close by. I have a friend who practices in Layton, Utah near the air base. She has no problem finding great employees.

Just reading this page after page and thinking - "Moses needs some old dame."

You need another one of them old hens. Maybe a early retiree? Or a mother going back to work? Let starbucks socialize the young ones - they will be ready in a few years..

FWIW - the best support person I ever had was a guy. Kansas dude who wanted to see the big city and moved his wife and kid here..

I graduated from college eight years ago. I started doing job interviews first semester of my senior year (so nine years ago).

I remember having concerns that my tie didn't properly match my shirt....that my black socks were a little too faded and didn't look 100%....that I mispronounced a single word during the interview....that I didn't completely answer a question....that I was too nervous....that I was overconfident....that I didn't thank each person individually....that I didn't get everyone's name involved with interviewing me to send them a thank you letter....

I wouldn't have DREAMED of doing some of the things mentioned on this thread.

One of my biggest pet peeves is visible tattoos. I don't care if you have them, but I don't want to see them at work. If you have skulls up and down your forearms, where a long-sleeve shirt. If you have a tramp stamp, don't wear low-cut pants with a short shirt. If you have a tattoo on the back of your neck, don't wear your hair up. If you have a tattoo on your ankle, don't wear capri pants. If you have a tattoo on your face or your neck, you're an idiot because you have forfeited the ability to look normal in public.

dress for success

This thread has jogged all sorts of interesting memories; all good. Thanks!

I've had a ton of secretaries/assistants in the past, it was always great fun doing the hiring.
I use to run one of those 'shared' office buildings, my company occupied the main floor and the upstairs had about 1/2 dozen offices we'd rent out with secretary services. I was kinda hard on some of the ah, bimbo types; so we did alot of hiring.

One time this hot brunette applied, so we hired her. It was soooo funny because shortly after my No.1 office gal started to date her. Too funny, blew me away. I stayed outa it.

Enjoy the process Moses, have some fun with it.

Ahhh, photos please! :)

My wife might fit the bill: she used to be a receptionist for a local Realtor, so she has experience with the job. She has operatic training for her voice and diction, so she sounds great on a phone. She's pretty cute, but she's not the ditzy blonde who'll cause problems with your older receptionists. She'd also be very grateful to work for $18/hr. Any chance you're hiring in the DC area?

Dan

sorry, no pics.
Very hot though!

My wife was such a good sport with my hiring practises too; she would just roll her eyes. There was about 6 or 7 guys, all business owners that worked in that office. We had so much fun over all the years. We had a girl there for a while and she was a hot tub model with a TV commercial running frequently on the local network; she was kinda famous for Calgary. She really liked to show her stuff. When they shot the commercial, they didn't heat the water and she had headlights on high beam. Every guy would make a comment. We had a subtrade plan takeoff room there, was a very popular place for the estimators to hang out ;)

We were always well behaved though, just clean fun.

DAMN!! I LMAO at that one !! I will stash that line for future reference!!:D

The issue is that you are hiring for a low paying job and off the street:

The good people either have better education and do not work as receptionists or they stay with the first company that hires them. A good receptionist will never have to apply in newspaper ads, they are passed on by word of mouth, should their job go away. So, my recommendation is to use your professional and private network to find someone. If that is not possible, I agree with the temp agency route.

Just my two cents,

George

Ever consider the other side of the equation? My wife would love to have this job. In fact, she’s applied for several receptionist type jobs. But she’s never gotten one offer. She has no tattoos or piercing, She’s not obese either. And she’s no dummy. She has a degree in Business, and a degree in Computers. As for experience? She's got 20 years of that, followed by a break to be "Mom".

So why can’t she land these jobs? Because they're looking for a hot twenty-something. Not a forty-something. (A forty something that I think is still pretty hot…)

It kind of pi$$es her of when she finds out they hired a clueless 21 year old that will probably last a month.

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Temp to Hire is the best way to go. Back when I was single I worked for a company and management wanted a good looking woman/girl working the front desk. The first person you see when you get off the elevator is an intro to the company. They would bring one in and start her on Monday morning. If she didn't work out in a week we'd get another on the following Monday. Like I said I was single at this time and it was great. Every Monday there would be another face as I got off the elevator. This went on for about 2 months. They finally settled on one and she was hired. I liked the last one too, I even married her!

On a related note, I'll be starting a job soon that requires a certain amount of manual labor, while at the same time maintaining some semblance of formality and professionalism. The dress code is, therefore, jeans and a polo for most work days. So yesterday, I went out shopping with my wife to try and find some jeans that I could wear at work. Should be easy, right? I'm estimating $25/pair, just looking for basic, normal jeans.

Turns out that jeans these days cost better than $100 at many places, and it's considered normal for them to come pre-shrunk, pre-worn, pre-torn, and looking like they'd be pretty comfortable worn halfway down your butt. They look positively silly on a 30 year old who's trying to look professional. We finally found 2 pairs of Levi's in a back corner of Dillards for $35/pair in the proper look -- clean, new, plain cut jeans. Crazy!

That's low paying?? Hell, I was thinking of sending a resume myself. I look bad in a wig and heels though. I guess things are different here in the midwest.

+ whatever ...for the temp service.

Tell them what you are looking for ...qualifications, any dress codes, etc. Let them do the initial sorting/screening.

Forget the HOTRECEPTIONIST.COM fantasy and hire the person for their skills. Your bottom line will thank you.

DJM,

Sears still has normal Levi's for around $30 each. None of this fancy bleached, ripped and torn crap, just good old fashioned jeans.

Joe

Tractor Supply for jeans. You will not find a receptionist there.

Many workers who have taken time away, return to find the gap to recover and assimilate is huge. Relate to this by returning to college in 2008

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$18 an hour is fantastic for AZ but if you live in CA you probably need food stamps. Might work with a professional partner on combined wages.

Provide daycare in addition to all other benefits offered and you may find a diamond in the rough

That reminds me of a story...

There was a lady about 10 years ago who had taken a 10 year break from work to have a family. She had come back to my company after this 10 year break and interviewed for her old job. She got through the interviews with flying colors, amazing the interviewers with how well she remembered the processes and procedures of the position. (And they were amazed at how little had really changed...) She was offered the job. At the close of the interview, she was asked if she had any questions. She replied: "Yes, why does everyone have a television on their desk?"

20 years ago, the work was a paper environment. 10 years ago, it was all electronic.