A recruiter was left stunned after an Australian Gen Zer brought his mother to a job interview.
Superior People Recruitment boss Graham Wynn has spent years in the industry and was surprised when a 20-year-old brought her parents with her.
She had to tell the mother she couldn’t attend after she had tried to stay to make sure her daughter “said the right thing.”
“(Parents) are actually taking away the child’s thought process because they’re saying, ‘We see how it should be,’ and making sure the child doesn’t make a mistake,” Mr. Wynn said. yahoo.
‘That’s causing a problem when they get into the workforce because in the workforce your parents aren’t there. If you do something wrong, there are consequences.’
He said the mother was just getting in the way by trying to help in the interview and was not giving her daughter the skills to advocate for herself.
But Wynn isn’t the only recruiter who has noticed the trend.
Recruiter Tammie Christofis Ballis criticized parents for being too involved in their children’s work.
Recruiter Graham Wynn said parents need to give children the skills to advocate for themselves.
In a TikTok, she said a father left her “stumped” when he asked why his son hadn’t had many shifts at his retail job.
“What he asked was, ‘My son doesn’t have shifts at Kmart, do you know why?'” Ms. Cristofis Ballis said.
‘A few things crossed my mind, but I said, “Why are you asking me? You have to ask your daughter to ask her boss at work,” because if they did that, they wouldn’t ask me questions. .’
The recruiter explained that the reason could be anything.
‘It could be frozen shifts, maybe the daughter wasn’t performing at work, maybe she’s waiting to be told what to do instead of showing initiative. It could be absolutely anything.
‘But it showed me that this mother was not helping her son. She was just trying to find random answers on the internet.
‘Have your child talk to their manager, they have to get used to uncomfortable conversations. They have to get used to being a little confrontational. You can do it professionally and politely, but it’s not worth remaining passive and waiting without ever finding an answer to something you really want to know.
“Otherwise, they lose confidence, don’t figure out what the problem is, and continue doing the same thing on the next jobs.”
The recruiter said she had been seeing this for “years.”
Social media users said they had seen the same thing.
‘I see this so many times. Mothers applying for jobs on behalf of their children. It’s an adult, they have to do it themselves,” said one woman.
“Well said, parents need to take responsibility,” another agreed.
Recruiter Tammie Ballis had a mother ask her why her young daughter didn’t have shifts (file image)
Cristofis Ballis previously told Daily Mail Australia she was tired of seeing applicants bring their parents to interviews.
“There’s something new: ‘I have interview anxiety,'” he said. ‘You have to be uncomfortable to get anywhere and there is no concept of that.
‘They say, “This isn’t in my safe space, so I’m not going to do it.” Then they get angry because they don’t have a job.”
It revealed that many suffer from a paralyzing fear of picking up the phone to speak to an employer or going to an interview alone.
“I’m not a clinical psychologist, but I feel like the younger generation being more aware of mental health and wellbeing (which is great and how it should be) is holding them back from moving forward and taking risks,” she said.
“And understand that sometimes you’re going to fail.”
Ballis noted that it was not uncommon for some applicants to bring their parents with them when looking for work, particularly in the hospitality industry.