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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I did a big recruitment drive for a Call centre I used to work inWe were looking to take on around 100 people, so had to interview about 350 or so. The format went something like this:
Interview in pairs, ask them to fill in a medical questionnaire while the interviewers left the room (to discuss), come back and make an offer or thank them for their time.
Now interviewing that many people we were bound to hit the dregs...the type who will go to interviews, deliberately fuck it up, and carry on claimimg the dole.
Anyway, we interviewed this guy, and we knew it would be bad when we started with the line "this is jus tan informal interview", and he answered "if I'd have known that, I'd have come in my jeans".
The most memorable line he gave us was "I can't really see myself answering the phones....I'd just wander round the office and soak up the pressure"!
Well, I'm sure he knew he didn't get the job, when we left the room and burst into fits of laughter.
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iwannabeabonobo has been buying lots of gadgets this weekend, Fri 21 Jan 2005, 11:15,
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