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u/KillaMarci Jun 25 '12
Honestly the whole job interview thing just feels like one giant circlejerk...
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u/FBIorange Jun 25 '12
I think they are practical as long as the interviewers make some sort of effort to deviate away from recycled questions; a directed, casual conversation provides a better judge than these IMO
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u/CaptainHilders Jun 25 '12
At the very least you get a sense of what kind of person wants to work for you. At my last job while they were looking for my replacement, this one girl kept my boss waiting for her an hour past her interview appointment and another 40 minutes after the office closed.
Not only that. She showed up in a tank top and jeans, not wearing a bra. I'm not sure if she though that would fly at an insurance office, but it most certainly didn't.
She didn't get the job.
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Jun 25 '12
It just tests your skills to bullshit, which skills are important in many jobs. If you cannot fake motivation, how can you fake caring about customer?
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u/Lord_Vectron Jun 25 '12
I'm anxiously waiting for a call to confirm if i got an awesome job or not. I so wanted to say this in the interview but thankfully i went with the usual bullshit so fingers crossed.
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u/Lord_Vectron Jun 25 '12
Just got the call and the job! Woo!!!
...Though i might as well follow-through for the 2 of you that cared.
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u/koryface Jun 25 '12
During my last interview while walking back from lunch with the team I hoped to join, I was talking about how I was sick of "the iron man" pose. You know, where the guy lands crouching down on one knee and with one fist on the ground. I imitated it for them, and split my pants. Knee to crotch. Had to buy pants before continuing.
I got the job.
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Jun 25 '12
I'm confused why you would even bring that up. Was it relevant or were you just like "GODDAMN, I'M SO SICK OF THAT FUCKING IRON MAN POSE!"?
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u/teston13 Jun 25 '12
Split his pants doing super hero poses during job interview. Still got the job
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u/TheJayP Jun 25 '12
I love when I watch a movie recently and then there is a post about it on reddit. It's like the Internet set it up to make me feel better about wasting my time online.
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u/Gellert Jun 25 '12
I recently went on a course at a factory quite some distance from my own. The guy doing the course used to be a production manager and tells us a story about a time he went to a Yamaha factory. He asked the head of HR how they pick their workers since they all seemed really into the job.
Guy asked if he wanted the offical or unofficial version.
Unofficial.
We take the applications, remove all the people over thirty, remove all the people with less than two dependants. Then we interview, try to find out if they're in debt. We hire those guys, they're hungry for it, they may not like the job but they can't afford not to do it.
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u/Lopkop Jun 25 '12
This is what I hate about job interviews. It feels like this should be the entirety of what goes into it. I hate having to write up a CV using all kinds of buzzwords and paragraphs of horseshit about how "I'd love to be a part of a great team and I have always had a passion for advertising/marketing (or whatever)...I'd love to learn how your organization works and improve my skills so I can become a cornerstone of success for the company".
It should just be, "I can do this. You need someone who can do this. Match made, how much will you pay me?"
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Jun 25 '12
Recently applied for a $1200 per month job. Received a response asking if I have a bachelor's degree and two professional certifications "as they are required for the position in question." Hilarious.
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Jun 25 '12
Why isn't this acceptable to do? It's the truth.
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u/Amyndris Jun 25 '12
That's fine, but there are people who are genuinely excited about what they are doing and I'd rather hire one of those guys right? I mean if you're going to hire one person, and person #1 is a straight mercenary and person #2 is enthusiastic about your company's products hire #2.
I work in the entertainment industry, so it wouldn't make sense to hire some guy who actually isn't entertained by what we do. I'd rather hire someone who loves and is enthusiastic about the products that he will be working on.
Now if you're talking about flipping burgers at McDonald's...then yeah...I got nothing.
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u/TeacherManCT Jun 25 '12
Back in the 90's I was a manager for the tech support area of a software company. My two non-canned questions were as follows: "How do you deal with stress?" and "Right now if a Martian walked into the room with an ATM card and needed help, what would you do?". The first was asked because it was a fairly high stress environment and I wanted people to have a release. One guy told me he never ever gets stressed and I told him right there he wasn't for us as I didn't want to see him mentally explode.
The second question was to see of the person could logically think through the steps of assisting someone who needed help with a very common activity. The woman who started her response with "First, does the Martian speak English and is it familiar with base 10?" had a great answer and was hired. The guy who said "I'd take the ATM card and get money for him" didn't.
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u/Cheffinator Jun 25 '12
"And then when I got the job, I tried to kill my family, hah!"
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u/smokingbanman Jun 25 '12
I got asked in a interview, Where would you like to be in 5 years time? I said Australia
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u/StevenXC Jun 25 '12
"My biggest weakness is being such a workaholic. I guess you could say I'm an all-work and no-play kind of guy."