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Baffled job applicants trying to make the cut sacrifice to keep up with athletic employers:
"Austin Harris thought his years as an investment banker had taught him all about tough job interviews—until one that started with a daybreak run though New York City’s Central Park and ended in a cramped office gym for a round of pull-ups, push-ups, squats and burpees.
It wasn’t easy keeping up with his prospective employer, a former college football player and co-founder of a company that makes nutrition bars, said Mr. Harris, 35 years old. When they started talking business, he said, “I was breathing pretty heavily and trying to recover.”
He made the cut, though. Mr. Harris is now chief financial officer of the food company, aptly named Health Warrior Inc.
In parts of the corporate world, the fitness enthusiasm of top executives is spilling from the gym to the workplace. Some sinewy CEOs find exercise clears their minds as it strengthens their bodies. When hiring and networking, more are substituting spin class and protein shakes for golf and steak dinners.
To some workers, the boss’s fitness craze is just crazy, especially in the high-stakes environment of job interviews. Few want to share a pungent sweat with their future boss or be judged on how much they can bench press.
Laura Yecies enjoys hiking, just not in high heels, part of the business outfit she wore for a job interview at a software company in California’s Bay Area. The chief executive asked her on an hourlong “walking interview” through town, she said.
“There was no warning or heads up,” said Ms. Yecies. “If I said no, he would think I was a wimp.” She went but later decided she didn’t want the job—in part because she didn’t think she would enjoy working for the CEO.
Ms. Yecies, now the chief operating officer of a technology company, said she keeps her work and exercise separate.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thanks...onshall-we-begin-at-the-squat-rack-1496327614
Similarities to actual pm members not intended
"Austin Harris thought his years as an investment banker had taught him all about tough job interviews—until one that started with a daybreak run though New York City’s Central Park and ended in a cramped office gym for a round of pull-ups, push-ups, squats and burpees.
It wasn’t easy keeping up with his prospective employer, a former college football player and co-founder of a company that makes nutrition bars, said Mr. Harris, 35 years old. When they started talking business, he said, “I was breathing pretty heavily and trying to recover.”
He made the cut, though. Mr. Harris is now chief financial officer of the food company, aptly named Health Warrior Inc.
In parts of the corporate world, the fitness enthusiasm of top executives is spilling from the gym to the workplace. Some sinewy CEOs find exercise clears their minds as it strengthens their bodies. When hiring and networking, more are substituting spin class and protein shakes for golf and steak dinners.
To some workers, the boss’s fitness craze is just crazy, especially in the high-stakes environment of job interviews. Few want to share a pungent sweat with their future boss or be judged on how much they can bench press.
Laura Yecies enjoys hiking, just not in high heels, part of the business outfit she wore for a job interview at a software company in California’s Bay Area. The chief executive asked her on an hourlong “walking interview” through town, she said.
“There was no warning or heads up,” said Ms. Yecies. “If I said no, he would think I was a wimp.” She went but later decided she didn’t want the job—in part because she didn’t think she would enjoy working for the CEO.
Ms. Yecies, now the chief operating officer of a technology company, said she keeps her work and exercise separate.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thanks...onshall-we-begin-at-the-squat-rack-1496327614
Similarities to actual pm members not intended
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