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There is no way that is true. Unless they are counting 15 year olds needing a ride to some fast food place to apply for a job and the parents took them.
Most likely but now I'm imagining someone from Gen Z bringing one of their parents with them to a Big 4 interview! Good luck lol
I want to hear from someone who brought a parent to an interview and how it went.
Definitely not true, that’s the campus equivalent of NewsMax
We had someone’s mother call and quit for him. This was decades ago.
I wonder if that means the parent went with and waiting outside or in the waiting area. The picture is misleading but unless virtual I doubt the company would allow the parent in the interview space.
I have heard of it happening for big4 internship interviews (Def not that high if a % though).
I bring my mom to interview candidates.
Having read the standard of English sentence construction and grammar in the article I can only surmise that the article writer should probably have brought their own parents to work that day to check her work.
That said the company that did the survey is focussed on getting kids to pay money for services to increase their chances of getting a job. So the survey is biased towards being sensational and of course the sort of people they would have got answering that question (as opposed to them saying "are you having a f'ing laugh) won't be the sharpest knives in the drawer...
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So this really is crazy. Obviously a lower percentage, but just wow.
I didn’t realize that June 2024 to Aug 2025 is two years..
Both surveys sound sus. 77% of Gen Z brings a parent to an interview, and ONLY 56% of hiring managers have encountered an unprepared Gen Z applicant? Hiring managers should have met at LEAST one unprepared applicant from every generation unless they just started their career as hiring manager.
Explains why my manager thinks being a manager is the same as being a parent to the staff.