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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Trick questions?How about, from a newspaper firm I had already worked for for two years on a part-time and freelance basis, :So what do you know about us then?"
Queue smart response: "I am aware of the *flagship title*, the vartious weekly titles in the area and that the firm was built up by a small number of people before it became a larger group, and was bought by the Americans. Now part of a major newspaper empire etc
At this point the worse-for-wear interviewer decides to walk out and call his wife. Second interviewer says: "Er...sorry...this isn't a test."
In comes interviewer number one and says: "Rubbish."
He then proceeds to bore the back teeth out of everyone present with a 20-MINUTE presentation on the history of the firm, including people re-mortgaging their homes to keep it afloat in its infancy.
I didn't get the job, despite already working for them.
...but they did apologise six months later and offer it to me then.
And like an arse I took it. Worst decision ever.
(, Wed 26 Jan 2005, 13:48, Reply)
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