Hiring through horoscopes (Guru)

Hiring through horoscopes

February 8, 2009

From the pages of a Harry Potter book (or one of those trashy gossip rags ... Closer or People Management, et al) comes a recruitment strategy that could change the future of hiring as we know it.

An Austrian insurance company has advertised sales and management positions in major newspapers, but added that only applicants fitting certain star signs need apply.

"We are looking for people over 20 for part-time jobs in sales and management with the following star signs: Capricorn, Taurus, Aquarius, Aries and Leo."

A spokesman added: "A statistical study indicated that almost all of our best employees across Austria have one of the five star signs."

"We only decided to continue with that system and hire the best workers."

Despite skepticism for thousands of years by governments, religions and justice codes, the practice of star signs has survived. Even leaders like Adolf Hitler and Ronald Reagan had personal fortune tellers.

And as Austria is one of the EU's 27 members, a local court case over the validity of the advertisement could easily climb the ladder to the European Court of Justice for a continent-wide ruling. From there ... the world.

What next? Redundancy slips in fortune cookies? Crystal ball interviews?

Guru can hardly wait.

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