Job InterviewsIf it's not the "where do you see yourself in five years time" question, it's the trick questions they throw at you to make them feel superior. Tell us about your worst job interview and the most unsuited candidates you've seen. BTW: Please don't use the question board to send messages to each other. It makes the whole thing unreadable for everyone else.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Jan 2005, 9:51)
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The first few that spring to mind...I used to do recruitment for a well-known retail company at a time when it wasn't doing great (I'll just say "the failing high street giant" and you'll know who I mean"). The standard interview used to include a wander round the salesfloor with the victim answering questions from the recruiter.
Ones I recall include a dodgy-looking candidate going straight to the leather jackets and asking about our security tagging.
Or the woman when asked "what would you least enjoy here?" replied with: "well, nothing. If I was asked to do something I didn't want to do, I just wouldn't do it. It's not as if I need this job for the money."
Or the one where I had to push a young guy down an escalator out of the way of a trolley crashing down towards us. (I may have written about that one in the near-death experience question, I can't remember)
I left the company shortly after doing an interview with a lovely young guy, who was full of enthusiasm and stories of good customer service. I was nearly in tears, and just wanted to tell him to go and apply somewhere else before the company sucked him dry and turned him into a bitter husk of his previous self.
But I gave him the job anyway.
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(, Wed 26 Jan 2005, 12:56, Reply)
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