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Having not had an interview in 9 years because of being settled in a role, i attended one this morning.......
Have things changed that much???
Firstly, i was asked which politician best describes me. My options were: David Cameron, David Blunkett, Neil Kinnock (!!!), Ed Milliband and Tony Blair.
Next i was asked if i was in The A Team who i would be and why....
Then it was a role play with somebody who was an 'irate' customer who i had to placate!
At no point was i asked to run through my experience or give examples.
Then the last question was: Give me one word to best describe yourself.
I mean, is this what goes on these days? Or have i just had a bad experience?!?
That sounds like a laugh. Terrible interview, but a laugh. I wouldn't be able to take it seriously tbh, I'd have to declare myself to be BA Barracus.
How I respond depends on why you chose from the A-Team... so, who was it? And why?
interviews can vary massively depending on many things such as the sector you work in, the company itself, some are like an informal but profesional chat, some structured and very corporate, then there's role plays like you mention, sometimes you maybe invited back for a second interview, sometimes there's just one. It maybe that the recruiter/interviewer was already convinced you could do the job from your experience and wanted just see how you dealt with situations and what soft skills / personality etc you had.
why B.A? "cos I aint gettin on no plane foo!"
but yeah, that sounds like a stupid interview. Mine are always pretty much "why do you want this job?" "what skills do you have that you could bring to the job"? "what do you think the job actually entails?" and a few other niceties.
Could have been much worse...
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-23972952 ]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-23972952[/url]
If someone asked me to do that I'd tell them to shove their job up their arse! 🙂
That sounds like a laugh. Terrible interview, but a laugh. I wouldn't be able to take it seriously tbh, I'd have to declare myself to be BA Barracus
'Not prepared to travel'.... we'll let you know.
Did they not ask you to perform a [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-23972952 ]dance routine[/url]?
'Not prepared to travel'.... we'll let you know.
Murdoch... I'm borderline insane and can't be trusted... we'll let you know
Face... because I'm constantly distracted by skirt... we'll let you know
Hannibal... because I have a Caesar complex and I can't go five minutes without a cigar and a devious master plan... we'll let you know
How could this possibly end well?
I had and interview the other week. I'm a Civil Engineer, the interview was basically an informal but professional talk about engineering stuff, they asked me what I could do, I told them why the should take me on, they believed me, I start the new job next Monday.
Very boring but to me that is what an interview should be like.
What was the job you were going for?
I reckon that with the job market as it is, with approximately 6,837 people chasing every half-decent job, employers are having a huge competition to who can slide the most ludicrous question/request into an interview without just being told to eff off
Firstly, i was asked which politician best describes me. My options were: David Cameron, David Blunkett, Neil Kinnock (!!!), Ed Milliband and Tony Blair.
Well personally I'd say I identify more with Bashir al Assad, Augusto Pinochet, or that bloke in Uzbekistan whose just renamed the days of the week after himself. Would you like to see my new knife?
interviews can vary massively depending on many things such as the sector you work in, the company itself, some are like an informal but profesional chat, some structured and very corporate, then there's role plays like you mention, sometimes you maybe invited back for a second interview, sometimes there's just one. It maybe that the recruiter/interviewer was already convinced you could do the job from your experience and wanted just see how you dealt with situations and what soft skills / personality etc you had.
You are the voice of reason, you don`t belong here !
I just felt embarrassed all teh way through!!
Politicians....i picked David Cameron - Lord knows why?!? Part of me died!
The A Team...... i picked a hybrid of Hanibal and BA!! I'm still cringing now!! 🙂
@Camo16 Quality response!
Go on tell us ....what job is it ?
Its not a paper distributor in Slough by any chance.
Haha no it's not....maybe thats where they worked in a previous incarnation though?? 🙂
IT stuff.....cloud and high availability provider for a small company.
Mountain biker working in IT sector shocker!!!
i picked a hybrid of Hanibal and BA
Like all hybrids, there's all sorts of compromises with that one... you're all about the plans, but spend the process leading up to its successful resolution calling your colleagues 'crazy fools' whilst transforming your company's car fleet into mobile arsenals... You smoke your stogies sleeveless and respond to innovation with (a) a smirk or (b) a snarl...
At least if you'd chosen Face you could have redirected their attention to your perfectly arranged side-parting.
Have been interviewing a few people this morning, wish I'd seen this earlier the A team question is brilliant. 😆
When do you find out if you've got the job, HanniCus?
Interviewer - We need someone who is able to commit to the organisation and be in for the long haul, what do you think?
Me - Its a 6 month contract isn't it?
Came in to post that 'dance' interview for Curry's but see it's already been done^^^^^^
Stuff like this boils my piss tbh. Fair enough a few curveball questions or whatever but a lot of it reeks of companies demeaning people for the sake of it under the pretence of 'testing' them.
Always good to chuck in a few random questions. Partly just to see how people react as our office has moments of total, off the wall, stress induced insanity. As a result, people that look calm when completely wrongfooted are a good fit for us.
The other benefit is that it sometimes calm's the candidate down so you get a better insight as to their character.
Good luck!
There is sometime a desire to try and de-stress an applicant by informal questions, role play etc. But interviewees often find it stressful and quite the opposite happens.
But the opportunity for some hilarious answers there!
BA - I aint no fool. hired.
...cloud and high availability provider...
I don't see how you can get back into sensible realms from this anyway. Are you solutions driven?
If only it had been;
"So Ferris-Beuller, what do you do on your day off?"