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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Only Debenhams...I'm still in school, and thought I'd try for a nice part time job in Debenhams. I was told to meet 'Janette' in the lingerie department, at 5 o'clock.
Characteristically late for everything, I came straight from school and turned up at 4.50. And stood. And stood. After a while, self-consciousness came into play, and I kept trying to divert my eyes to where seemed most wholesome, away from busty mannequins and thongs - which was the floor, or the entirely blank ceiling. Odd looking in itself. But by 5.03 I needed the toilet, quite badly, and my legs had developed a slightly agitated twitch. And, I realised, as leggedy young sales assistants and grey-haired betties alternated walking by, that I was in full school uniform, and must have looked the absolute embodiment of spotty teenage perversion.
Anyway, 'Janette' turned up at about ten past, whisked me away (to my relief) to an office upstairs, ceased smiling completely and proceeded to interview me with an air of pity for a full thirty minutes. ('Have you ever pulled through a time of adversity?' - 'um, not particularly... GCSEs were quite hard, and... I didn't use to have many friends...')
As seems to be the way with these more piteous stories, I didn't get the job.
(, Mon 24 Jan 2005, 20:28, Reply)
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