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Main issue is not for the company, but the candidate. If he is a senior developer currently working elsewhere and you are trying to convince him to join, a 3 month temporary offer is a hard sell.
Could ask for a three month leave from current job. To travel the world or what not.
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There's a stigma that offering a candidate a 3-month temporary offer (or any such short time length) will make them not want to accept. However, I've had success is using temporary employment as a great way to figure out if the candidates would work out or not.
Main issue is not for the company, but the candidate. If he is a senior developer currently working elsewhere and you are trying to convince him to join, a 3 month temporary offer is a hard sell.
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There's a stigma that offering a candidate a 3-month temporary offer (or any such short time length) will make them not want to accept. However, I've had success is using temporary employment as a great way to figure out if the candidates would work out or not.
I don't know that a 3-month temporary offer is really necessary. In California at least, where employment is "at-will", you can fire an employee at any time for almost any reason. My expectation when accepting a job offer is that if I am not successful in my role, I will be fired. Most jobs I have worked even have an official "probation period" for new employees where you have a set of goals you need to accomplish in…
Yeah, in an at-will state you might as well consider the "trial" period to be in place no matter what. If things don't work out well they'll just toss your ass to the curb. Maybe if you're lucky like me your boss will have a soul and give you some amount of severance at least.
FWIW the "marshmallow experiment" failed when it was reproduced with more participants from wider backgrounds. Probably not something you want to hook your ideas onto. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmall...
>Ultimately, the new study finds limited support for the idea that being able to delay gratification leads to better outcomes. Instead, it suggests that the capacity to hold out for a second marshmallow is shaped in large part by a child’s social and economic background—and, in turn, that that background, not the ability to delay gratification, is what’s behind kids’ long-term success.
FWIW the "marshmallow experiment" failed when it was reproduced with more participants from wider backgrounds. Probably not something you want to hook your ideas onto. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmall...
The study you link to confirms the correlation between the ability to delay gratification in the marshallow test and later success in life. However, it also says that when taking other factors in to account, in particular the wealth of the parents, the marshallow test does not add a significant amount of information any more.
So all we know now is that we have a number of variables that correlate:
- succeeding at the marshmallow test
- having wealthy parents
- be successful in life
Which one of these causes what is open for interpretation. For example, growing up in a stable and reliable environment (which more affluent parents can easier provide) might help to develop long-term thinking, which helps both at the marshmallow test and generally in life.
In any case, the study confirmed that if you don't know anything else about a person, the marshmallow test provides significant information about the probable success later in the life of that person.
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Yeah, not a chance I'd leave my current job for that kind of instability.
Pretty sure no one would. You'll only manage to get unemployed people. Who will bail if they get a full time offer during that three months.
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Could ask for a three month leave from current job. To travel the world or what not.
Even in EU it's a tough sell. Your current employer has to agree to it. Why should they, since you're leaving? It only complicates counting employees.
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