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Would there be any "extra" duties?
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Bad Interviews!
- Thread starter SallyAnne
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Would there be any "extra" duties?
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Helping out with the pot noodles.
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I'll give you one if you like.
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Their loss. Did you really want to work with people who've such poor judgement?
I had a bad interview a few months ago. The guy met me in reception and didn't speak all the way up to the meeting room and didn't offer coffee. Felt it was a lost cause before the interview started!
A female joined us; he said she'd be conducting the interview. She asked a couple of questions then he took over and from then on she hardly got a word in edgeways. At the end he chucked a few simple mental arithmetic sums at me!! Then he went - she was looking though a file, clearly angry. I mentioned something I'd done; she said "oh yes, I can see that, I'm just reading your CV" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heard later from people who'd worked there that I'd had a very lucky escape!
So Que sera etc. - you're probably better off without them. And the bag is all ready for next time.
I had a bad interview a few months ago. The guy met me in reception and didn't speak all the way up to the meeting room and didn't offer coffee. Felt it was a lost cause before the interview started!
A female joined us; he said she'd be conducting the interview. She asked a couple of questions then he took over and from then on she hardly got a word in edgeways. At the end he chucked a few simple mental arithmetic sums at me!! Then he went - she was looking though a file, clearly angry. I mentioned something I'd done; she said "oh yes, I can see that, I'm just reading your CV" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heard later from people who'd worked there that I'd had a very lucky escape!
So Que sera etc. - you're probably better off without them. And the bag is all ready for next time.
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Fixed that for you.
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I had a bad one recently - was more upset I'd weakened my good interview : offer ratio than anything else.
I almost walked before the interview began - they kept me waiting for 25min.
The lead interviewer was a proper snotty little polo-neck-wearing-tarquin. They specified clearly in the JD they wanted someone to come in, set up a department and set up the methodology, processes etc. So I played to that.
Feedback was I'd obviously worked in a very highly structured environment and was used to that, even though I ran through times when that clearly wasn't the case, and I'd set up working structures from scratch.
The long and the short of it is that after only a short time in the interview I felt like reaching over the table and lamping this jumped-up cretin - so it's probably for the best I don't get to spend any more time with him.
Oh, and trick questions... <insert expletive here>
I almost walked before the interview began - they kept me waiting for 25min.
The lead interviewer was a proper snotty little polo-neck-wearing-tarquin. They specified clearly in the JD they wanted someone to come in, set up a department and set up the methodology, processes etc. So I played to that.
Feedback was I'd obviously worked in a very highly structured environment and was used to that, even though I ran through times when that clearly wasn't the case, and I'd set up working structures from scratch.
The long and the short of it is that after only a short time in the interview I felt like reaching over the table and lamping this jumped-up cretin - so it's probably for the best I don't get to spend any more time with him.
Oh, and trick questions... <insert expletive here>
