Interview question

[Archie_tect]

Look them up on Facebook... certain people can be crossed off the list straightaway.

 

[Wobblers]

To be honest, what an interview will get you is someone who is good at interviews, not necessarily good at the job! Why not take them for a pub lunch to see how they behave (@theclaud's idea of seeing how they treat the waiter) - somehow, CoG, I can't see you being adverse to that idea... If you're after a proof reader, give them an example to test their skills: the only way you can tell if they're any good at the job is to get them to do it.

Alternatively, you could just hire me. Just think, you'd be safe and secure in the knowledge that there's just no way I could possibly compete with you on the BS front!

 

[Archie_tect]

You are too clever to need to work Mr R.

 

[Archie_tect]

Screen the pub questions carefully TC, you may have got the job... providing you can provide proof you can read.

[Edit: Mind meld switched on again... scary]

 

[ColinJ]

I'm not a people person but I can fake it brilliantly when I want to... I doubt anything you ask in interview will tell you the answer.

So, you can say the right things, put on the fake smile, but can you really get rid of every last trace of the cold Vladmir Putin-like eyes?

 

[Fnaar]

Ask them (via email)
Our yuo a Peeperl PeRsan?
If they send it back corrected, Bob's yer uncle!!!

Quoting myself here, as I thought it needed further consideration.

 

[Archie_tect]

So, you can say the right things, put on the fake smile, but can you really get rid of every last trace of the cold Vladmir Putin-like eyes?
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Putin = Andrew Marr..... untrustworthy, manipulating, creepy... and Putin's not pleasant either.

 

[ColinJ]

Putin = Andrew Marr..... untrustworthy, manipulating, creepy... and Putin's not pleasant either.

Ha - someone I know was just saying that yesterday! I can see what you mean, but Marr doesn't scare me, whereas Putin definitely does.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

One approach is to take a bingo card with you to the interview with various phrases on it. Once you've crossed out an entire line in any direction, stand up and yell "bingo!", then promptly show them the door, because working with them would irritate the hell out of you.

 

[pplpilot]

Interviews are like CVs, utter bollocks. Only time in the job will tell.

 

[sazzaa]

So, you can say the right things, put on the fake smile, but can you really get rid of every last trace of the cold Vladmir Putin-like eyes?

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I also suffer from this...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v98CPXNiSk


And guess what, last month I was headhunted!

 

[srw]

I a Comperency Based process, ask them to describe a situation relevant to the skills you want:
http://www.interview-skills.co.uk/competency-based-interviews-questions.aspx

This. It works reasonably well for softer skills, and gives you a chance to probe. The theory is that future behaviour is strongly influenced by past behaviour on the leopard-not-changing-its-spots principle.

If they can turn a description into a reasonable conversation with your help then they're human. I have seen highly competent HR people conduct an hour-and-a-half competency based interview without ever directly asking a "describe" question - but for us mere mortals it's a useful way of tackling a tricky task.

 

[vernon]

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Would you prefer to live North or South of the river. (Only one answer is right.)[/QUOTE]

In the river?

 

[vernon]

I also suffer from this...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v98CPXNiSk


And guess what, last month I was headhunted!

Headhunting is sometimes an act of last resort......

 

[vernon]

So living on a house boat on the Thames would rule out a person, then

Depends which bank it's moored on.