| What are they for? they only ask the same stupid questions like an interrogation. Why do you want to work here? Why should we hire you? What is your best qualities? Btch I'm here to get $MONEY$ and I applied cause I'm qualified enough for the job, why else would I want to work? That's what the Curriculum Vitae is for, use it. fck if only I could get a welfare check, but I'm educated and white, so I can't get it. |
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ichii_1 said: What are they for? they only ask the same stupid questions like an interrogation. Why do you want to work here? Why should we hire you? What is your best qualities? Btch I'm here to get $MONEY$ and I applied cause I'm qualified enough for the job, why else would I want to work? That's what the Curriculum Vitae is for, use it. fck if only I could get a welfare check, but I'm educated and white, so I can't get it. They're good for jobs where you're going to have to present yourself well and interact with others, like the service industry. The entire point of the recruitment process is to find the person with the most all-round skills applicable to that job, smiling and pretending not to care about bullshit questions is a must for waitresses and waiters. |
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| To be blunt, I only really want to work for money as well. If I had the option, I don't see myself ever working if it weren't for the necessary income. Onto the point though: Companies are usually looking for someone who's willing to put effort into their work, and treat their job as being something they're passionate about, rather than just being the kind of person that proclaims "welps, it's 5pm now, I'm off!" It's a give and take situation. They don't want to hire someone who isn't really motivated and may end up quitting (or being fired) a few months down the line. |
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NasalShark said: The entire point of the recruitment process is to find the person with the most all-round skills applicable to that job, smiling and pretending not to care about bullshit questions is a must for waitresses and waiters. That's what the vitae, school, internship and training is for, interviewers are nothing but a waste of money for a company. |
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| Because workers dont have to be smart or have great achievements. They need to be able to lie and communicate to staff and higher ups. |
| I've been here way too long... |
ichii_1 said: NasalShark said: The entire point of the recruitment process is to find the person with the most all-round skills applicable to that job, smiling and pretending not to care about bullshit questions is a must for waitresses and waiters. That's what the vitae, school, internship and training is for, interviewers are nothing but a waste of money for a company. All that stuff can be great but they tell you little about the persons personality or how passionate they are. Interviewers use it to get a better idea of who that person is, its harder to bullshit in person too so they can catch you out if you don't know your shit. |
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| Maybe you are just doing the job for the money however the employer will still want to check out your suitability for the job. Much can be deciphered from the questioning processes (your work ethic, your intelligence, your social skills etc). No employer is going to be impressed by you replying "For the money" when asked why you chose to apply for their job advert! Education doesn't count for much unless it's applicable to the line of work. Even then it's not hard to get qualifications for all kinds of things these days (the value/worth of a lot of qualifications aren't what they used to be and some are barely worth the paper they're written on etc). Not to sound harsh, but if you would more than happily to sponge off the state given half the chance (and whinge about it when people deny you benefits), maybe those employers were right not to give you a job (such a thing doesn't exactly say much about your work ethic or sense of drive/ambition in life)... Remember that by employing you an employer is doing you a favour as much as you will be for them when working under them (assuming you work hard/well). An employee who is wrong for the job will quickly become a burden (maybe even a fatal business mistake depending on the companies finances etc). Stay strong, persevere, introspect, learn and don't get whiny. The interview process is there for more good reasons than I care to list and if you don't make an effort at an interview level then who is to say you will make an effort in the job? All too many people start to drag their asses after a while in work (not bothering to work hard, pulling sickies or not turning up for work on time etc) because they stop caring about what they're doing on such a fundamental level that they don't even care if they become burdensome to their coworkers (let alone their employer). And why would anyone want to employ someone like that? Maybe you are not someone like this at all. But with your current attitude towards job interviews, you probably aren't doing much of a good job (no pun intended) to convince potential employers that you are otherwise etc. |
Tokis06Feb 25, 2016 11:26 AM
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| I remember a thread like this (written by a guy who was jobless of course) and the overwhelming answer seemed to be that lying as a skill is, to a great extent, the most important factor in an interview... by that assumption, I truly do wonder why there's still such a reliance on it. I'm assuming that it must be to gauge whether or not the candidate is suitable for "working with" the others in the company, but that seems a bit bullshit. |
| For once I agree with you OP. Interviews are just a cesspool for lies and shit. |
ichii_1 said: NasalShark said: The entire point of the recruitment process is to find the person with the most all-round skills applicable to that job, smiling and pretending not to care about bullshit questions is a must for waitresses and waiters. That's what the vitae, school, internship and training is for, interviewers are nothing but a waste of money for a company. Sorry you were under some sort of impression that passing some courses gave you a golden ticket to getting easily employed for the rest of your life, but in the real world the reality is quite different. Maybe you are bitter because you felt promised better things in life or someone told you that if you did X, Y & Z you would get W etc but life really doesn't work like that. I mean, what did you even study for, where did you study it, what grades did you get and what jobs have you been applying for exactly? The amount of people I have seen come out of uni who barely had any applicable knowledge or thought they were the smartest person ever because they'd been to uni or something (when the reality was very far from the case) etc are many. |
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| They are important. But many of the questions and qualifications they ask for are not important. When I was a receptionist they were looking for people who knew excel and AutoCAD. Well luckily I knew AutoCAD and excel, but the program and shit I was doing had absolutely nothing to do with AutoCAD. I remember I talked to one of the other employees there and asked why they wanted someone to know and he said "mainly to see how good you are at using the computer and learning how". Like what the fuck??? Sometimes employers ask for the most ridiculous qualifications,or they ask irrelevant and illogical questions. At least when I interview for engineering internships the shit they ask is far more relevant. |
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Agreed, and it's funny because the interviewer knows that you're bullshitting about most things. |
| Half the questions is not even needed so meh. However, it gives them a good look at someone's personality. |
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Rimpey said: Half the questions is not even needed so meh. However, it gives them a good look at someone's personality. Personality can easily be altered for the situation, the only possible plus point about it is that it shows the interviewee's grasp of communication skills, if that's a quality the job requires. |
Salad said: Rimpey said: Half the questions is not even needed so meh. However, it gives them a good look at someone's personality. Personality can easily be altered for the situation, the only possible plus point about it is that it shows the interviewee's grasp of communication skills, if that's a quality the job requires. I'll use myself as an example. Me and one other person were both going for the same internship. We both took the same classes required for the position and had relatively the same GPA, but mine was a tad lower. I got the position because I appeared friendly enough to not mind interacting with the other employees. There are a lot of other engineering interns I know who have missed out on a job because they appear disinterested and hostile in the interview. Personality means a lot for certain positions. (most of them) it can make or break you. |
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KonaKoffee4 said: Salad said: Personality can easily be altered for the situation, the only possible plus point about it is that it shows the interviewee's grasp of communication skills, if that's a quality the job requires. I'll use myself as an example. Me and one other person were both going for the same internship. We both took the same classes required for the position and had relatively the same GPA, but mine was a tad lower. I got the position because I appeared friendly enough to not mind interacting with the other employees. There are a lot of other engineering interns I know who have missed out on a job because they appear disinterested and hostile in the interview. Personality means a lot for certain positions. (most of them) it can make or break you. You misunderstood. I am not saying personality is unimportant, instead that you can easily change who you are for the interview. It's not something that's so difficult to do. |
Salad said: KonaKoffee4 said: I'll use myself as an example. Me and one other person were both going for the same internship. We both took the same classes required for the position and had relatively the same GPA, but mine was a tad lower. I got the position because I appeared friendly enough to not mind interacting with the other employees. There are a lot of other engineering interns I know who have missed out on a job because they appear disinterested and hostile in the interview. Personality means a lot for certain positions. (most of them) it can make or break you. You misunderstood. I am not saying personality is unimportant, instead that you can easily change who you are for the interview. It's not something that's so difficult to do. Salad said: KonaKoffee4 said: I'll use myself as an example. Me and one other person were both going for the same internship. We both took the same classes required for the position and had relatively the same GPA, but mine was a tad lower. I got the position because I appeared friendly enough to not mind interacting with the other employees. There are a lot of other engineering interns I know who have missed out on a job because they appear disinterested and hostile in the interview. Personality means a lot for certain positions. (most of them) it can make or break you. You misunderstood. I am not saying personality is unimportant, instead that you can easily change who you are for the interview. It's not something that's so difficult to do. Lol some people think theyre good at changing their personality, but they're easier to see through than they think. I know what you mean though. |
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| My dad is involved in HR, so I asked him. He said it is mainly to weed out the freaks. |
| Losing an Argument online? Simply post a webpage full of links, and refuse to continue until your opponents have read every last one of them! WORKS EVERY TIME! "I was debating with someone who believed in climate change, when he linked me to a graph showing evidence to that effect. So I sent him a 10k word essay on the origins of Conservatism, and escaped with my dignity intact." "THANK YOU VERBOSE WEBPAGES OF QUESTIONABLE RELEVANCE!" |
| My Mom basically said they just do it so they can pick they're co. workers lol |
| They test your confidence. If you have trouble answering basic questions you might pee yourself doing customer service or something weird. If you pick someone just from a resume you could end up with an asshole who's put his friend as a reference. |
Trance said: I'm a guy and I can imagine buttfucking another guy. I don't find the thought repulsive, and I can even imagine kissing another man. |
| I guess they're in order to see how mentally stable the person is, since it's something that could affect said person's performance in the future independently of his/her intellect or capacity for the job. |
Dr_Mantis said: They test your confidence. If you have trouble answering basic questions you might pee yourself doing customer service or something weird. If you pick someone just from a resume you could end up with an asshole who's put his friend as a reference. Basically this. I had never any trouble with these interviews, I nailed every single one of them. |
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