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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Drinking problemAt my last job interview (for a summer work placement) I was asked if I drink. It seemed inappropriate for a job interview, but I was going to be working and living around a lot of college undergrads, so I thought that perhaps they just wanted me to be a good influence. I realized, though, that if I got the job, I didn't want to be found out. So I answered that I do drink sometimes, but not to excess and not with people I don't know well.
I got the job (even though I couldn't answer the "Tell us about a time you had to convince someone of something" question because I'd just broken up with my boyfriend and my brain was shouting "I FINALLY CONVINCED MY STUPID EX-BOYFRIEND THAT WE ARE, IN FACT, BROKEN UP" - which didn't seem interview-appropriate) and went off and worked for a while. Talking to some of my co-workers, I discovered that the correct answer was "yes" because they had a guy who didn't drink there once and the skeezy president of the company didn't like it when he flew over for his party weekends and someone didn't play along.
(, Sat 22 Jan 2005, 0:25, Reply)
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