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07:48
Jan 23rd 2012
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DrunkRogue68
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Just reading the good news from Mixindave re: the cleaning job and it got me thinking….
I bet there are a hundred and 1 stories out there about good/bad/funny interviews, so come on share all your tales
The first interview I ever had was for a job in a carpet shop straight after leaving school, and the first question the interviewer asked was….
What made you want to sell carpets and how long have you felt that this was the career for you?
Well I sort of chuckled thinking he was joking :-) and he then said….
Sorry but I don't think you are the right person for the job (Interview over in less than 5 minutes)
I'm sure some of you guys have better stories, so come on share with everyone
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08:56
Jan 23rd 2012
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MantisMat
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Hehe
I was once offered a job at a company, I turned it down.
The next year I went for another interview there, so figured the job was mine.
I ended up sitting in the pub for 2 hours getting half pissed before the interview…. during the interview, when asked about any questions from me…. all that came to mind was "Do people go to the pub at lunch?"
Guess what – didn't get the job….. man I can be an idiot at times!!!!
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14:14
Jan 23rd 2012
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ilander66
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I went for a job with a very PRINCIPALED building society and there were about 15 of us in a room and they made us do psychometric tests (they told us not to try to fake our answers as their test would be able to pick that up ahem…) anyway they made us then do an 'team building' exercise where we all had a slip of paper with some information on it and we had to share this with the group to work out a problem I think it was the height of a pyramid or something so one would have '8 cubes make 1 hand' and someone else would have ' each block is 3 hands square' 'the pyramid has 100 blocks along each length of the base' and so on.
Thing was everyone was nervous so no one wanted to speak and I had had enough by now so I piped up and started going around the room asking for information and the writing it on a whiteboard.
Finish the interview go out to meet some friends and tell them how it went and a few of them who worked there started shaking their heads so I asked whats up.
They said I had been a fool to speak up as it showed I could use my initiative and would be automatically labelled a troublemaker and that the company always employed the people that said nothing as they were easier to manage.
I didnt get the job maybe it was because of this but in the end I am glad as I got a job working with a right dirty girl who used to like to shag in the works toilets.
and they say romance is dead.
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20:05
Jan 23rd 2012
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ShatnerzBassoon
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I went for a job at a helium factory… walked staright out of the interview, no way I was being spoken to in that tone of voice 
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09:57
Jan 24th 2012
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Cynical Hunter
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In the days when I was a secret smoker from my parents I was Having a crafty fag in the garden when my dad brings a friend of the family saying he would like to interview me for a job in a local book shop. Not wanting my dad seeing me smoke I quickly put out the cigarette (so I thought) and put the reminder in my pocket. The man interviews me for a about five minutes or so asking the usual question when he stops and asks if I can smell burning? I look around and can't see or smell anything so I say I can't, the interview continues for a brief while when the man jumps up and yells "Your leg is on fire!" I look down and low and behold I am alight. I try beating out the fire spreading down my left leg but its going to quick so I Jumped in the garden pond. I was told by paramedics the only reason I didn't have any major damage or burns was due to my unnaturally hairy legs shielding my skin for a few precious seconds.
In the end I didn't get the job.
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19:54
Jan 24th 2012
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The Big Deeg
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I've seen it from the other side having interviewed a fair few people over the last 1/2 a dozen years and have seen some great examples of interview technique.
- The guy looking for a sales job who got my company mixed up with a company with a similar name and thought that he was being interviewed by the other company. They make printers, we kill cockroaches.
- The interviewee who spent about 5 minutes informing me that the reason he wanted to leave his current job was that his boss was a wanker and he had slotted him a few days ago.
- Another interviewee asked how he'd feel about having to kill pests as part of his work replied that he'd have no problem killing people if the money was right.
- The woman who having been turned down for an admin position who I felt might just be a bit too bossy for the other admin staff bombarded our office with calls on the hour every hour and then pitched up the following day demanding to know why she didn't get the job.
It aint always that easy on the other side of the chair!
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06:47
Jan 25th 2012
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espedair
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Post edited 06:47 – Jan 25th 2012 by espedair
Went for an IT job I desperately wanted to get of night shift work and argued that I should earn the same or less money as I'd be learning on the job even with loads more responsibility. What a dofuss.
I got the job mind 
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16:56
Jan 31st 2012
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Saracen2000
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I once went for a job in a rather large insurance company and was led to a room to sit a few tests, only to be confronted by an array of multiple guess questions like, 30+50=? and if a clock shows 13:00 what time is it? I shit you not, this was for a supervisory role in the company! so I just wrote the word penguin for every answer (did I mention it was multiple choice). The poor guy who was facilitating the interview then spent the next 20 minutes trying to work out if i was either really stupid or just taking the piss. They offered me the job but I turned it down……
Shhhhh……..don't tell Daren but I now drive trains for a living 
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