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Gen Z Iced Coffee Interviews: Hiring Bias Exposed - Grounds for Discussion
Paul and Jen dissect the viral headline claiming Gen Z's iced coffee habit in job interviews could be costing them jobs, after a corporate recruiter with 16 years of experience warned that candidates arriving with lattes appear "too casual" in buttoned-up Fortune 500 environments.
The hosts unpack the recruiter's advice... "finish the coffee before you walk in"... and ask whether an iced coffee reveals anything useful about a candidate's judgment and professionalism, or whether it exposes how arbitrary hiring norms have become. They trace the same debate through tattoos, piercings, sneakers…
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