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Originally Posted by Eastern Girl
Oh, you know, the usual...
Not sure if this fits in this thread, but today, I conducted an interview with this young chap, straight out of university, and he was really nervous, visibly nervous. He was squirming in his chair, rarely made eye contact, he just stared at the floor or out the window behind me.
Anyways, I asked him some basic questions and he was very blunt and honest with his answers, I think moreso than he intended. He told me about how he had trouble meeting deadlines in school, had trouble getting up in the morning, how he didn't like working with people, and how he wasn't comfortable using computers or phones.
I imagine he was just really nervous and therefore some of that stuff just slipped out, so I am sure that he walked out of that interview thinking, "Did I just say all that?" |
We interviewed a guy like that a while back. It was a panel interview, and one of the questions was a behavioral question, I can't remember specifically what it was, but he talked about how he isn't shy to tell somebody something. Then he pointed at me and said (and I paraphrase) "For example if you had something that was horrible looking that was growing on your chin I would tell you in a tactful way that you should have it removed". Well I was the only one on the panel that had a goatee, and I prefer to keep my goatee a bit long. My colleague joked that he was trying to tell me something and the candidate's face turned beat read.
I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it, at least not consciously, but he was certainly kicking himself for using that as an example. He didn't get the job, but only because he didn't have the qualifications that we were hoping for, not because he may have insulted me.