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

A apical exertion CEO has revealed the 1 important question helium asks each campaigner during occupation interviews. 

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

Shapiro told CNBC that helium asks each applicants however soon they could commencement their caller role.

If they accidental they tin commencement successful little than 2 weeks 'they don't get the job, due to the fact that they'll dainty america the mode they dainty that erstwhile employer,' the 68-year-old explained.

Shapiro emphasizes that however radical permission their erstwhile jobs is simply a 'really important' origin successful his hiring decisions. 

'I privation an [employee] with a level of committedness to their organization, adjacent if they don't emotion their job, wherever they won't permission their leader hanging,' the longtime CEO told CNBC. 

Shapiro, who has been astatine CTA for 33 years, said helium precocious utilized the question erstwhile hiring the company's caller main operating officer. 

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

'I was precise thankful she answered [that way] I said, 'That's perfect. You got the job.'' 

Shapiro did clarify that the pass-fail question is lone applicable to applicants that are presently employed.

San Francisco-based enforcement and vocation manager Joyce Guan West cautioned against utilizing the question arsenic a standalone determiner connected a candidate's quality. 

'I would beryllium amazed if the bulk of high-quality candidates, oregon candidates astatine a much elder level, would accidental little than 2 weeks,' West told CNBC.  

'It seems similar benignant of a softball question that astir astute radical are going to reply correctly.' 

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

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

Francisco Tobon is simply a vocation adept with LinkedIn. He said bringing a genitor to a occupation interrogation tin beryllium perceived by the imaginable leader arsenic unprofessional and interaction the chances of getting hired. 

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