[Mazija]

I'm another hopeless/hopeful 2009 graduate looking for a job. Been on several interviews.. went to one a couple weeks ago that was totally different from anything I'd experienced!

My interview was scheduled for 2.30pm so I arrived at 2.20pm and was told to come back at 3pm because they were late. So I arrived back at 2.55pm and was left to wait in a room all on my own until 3.30pm.

Then 3men+1woman came in, plonked themselves down with a small hello to me, and started discussing amongst themselves the applicant they had interviewed that morning! And told me "she was ****!" (I couldn't believe they told me that and swore)

I had to do a presentation about a controversial topic. I did something about the Middle East. It went fine. THen I got grilled about religion. The boss man said something along the lines of "I don't believe in God, its such ********, do YOU believe in God?"

I asked whether I was going to be judged on that? They all said NO. So I said, yeah I believe in God.

The interview lasted 2 hours, each person in the room grilled me while the rest studied my body language. And it wasn't a great grilling either. I'd get like 3 questions fired at me in one go and when I began to answer I'd immediately be told "yeh yeh thats boring, say something interesting" or "you really don't seem intelligent" or "yeh yeh I'm bored now."

I was asked "if you don't get this job will you give up and become a prostitute? ha ha ha!" to which all the male interviewers laughed. The lady interviewer was sat in her chair with her feet up. I wanted to burst out crying a couple of times but held it together... it was a horrible interview..

Anyway when I got home I was puzzling over whether interviewers could be so rude?? or whether it was some 'technique'.. then I read about the 'stress interview' technique online and I guess they must have been doing that although they did go a little too far in my opinion (either that or they really were all just mean people). They rang me up 4 days later saying they had a hard time deciding whether to hire me or not as I handled it well (they were probably lying to soften the blow?) but that they wouldn't hire me.

Anyone had a stress interview and passed it?

[Pink Bullets]

Would you really want to work for them?

What was the job, out of interest?

[StadtJunky]

TF. What kind of job was this?

[crazylemon]

Either that was a very extreme stress interview or they are all bastards.

I have had one stress interview = epic fail on my part

[theBOON]

Well are you sure it was a stress interview. I don't know what job it was you were interviewed for but it just have be a laugh for them (perhaps after they had already found the perfect candidate) or perhaps it was a stress interview to determine how you would react to such situation or if you are able to stand-up for yourself in such a situation.

I would ever be in such a situation I wouldn't think twice to point out that I'm aware of the stress effect of the interview and that they are being extremly rude.

[Geritak]

[danni_bella]

Originally Posted by crazylemon

Either that was a very extreme stress interview or they are all bastards.

I have had one stress interview = epic fail on my part

I've had a couple, they are stressful. Based on experience, why would you want to work for them - I couldn't wait to quit my job and do something else after 3 months working for one of those organisations!

Granted my CV now looks bad, but oh well. I'm still relatively young, lots of time to improve and get a permanent job I can stay in for long long time to come.

[Toneh]

Originally Posted by Geritak

i love monty python, so much.
that was awesome.

[crazylemon]

Originally Posted by danni_bella

I've had a couple, they are stressful. Based on experience, why would you want to work for them - I couldn't wait to quit my job and do something else after 3 months working for one of those organisations!

Granted my CV now looks bad, but oh well. I'm still relatively young, lots of time to improve and get a permanent job I can stay in for long long time to come.

Mine was for med school, only one I didn't get an offer for

[Mazija]

It was an interview to be a recruitment consultant lol. Yeah, I wasn't sure whether it was a stress interview or whether they were all just really unecessarily evil.

[Mazija]

Originally Posted by Geritak

Lol Love John Cleese