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41: Barefoot job applications

Lateral with Tom Scott

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How to Be a Successful Interviewer

The partition is specifically designed to prevent Katie from seeing the employer panel and the employer panel from seeing Katie. So she's blocked off visually from the interviewer from whoever's hiring. Is this like a bank teller? No. Why do you take your shoes off? Yeah, I don't know if that number is specific or... Can you see under the partition? No. But on, yeah. It's because you can't see her and then you can't work out stilettos or footfalls or anything like that. If you're not a woman in this scenarioyou're 50% more likely to get the job.

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