Job Interview DisastersThe boss showed me the shop floor, complete with loose floor tiles, out-of-date equipment and prospective colleagues eyeing me like a raw steak. "Christ, what a craphole", I said. I think that's the moment I blew it. Tell us how you didn't get the job.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 21 Nov 2013, 13:06)
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this may workIf you genuinely need to appear keen to get this role and equally genuinely do not wish to do so this may work - and I'm being serious rather than play the buffoon for once
Tell them an anecdote of how you've been placed in a position of having to choose between acting in an employer's best interests or acting with integrity or in accordance with law, tradition or best practice.. and crucially chose to follow your heart instead of your instructions
It shows professionalism, it demonstrates integrity, and it scares the shit out of employers who generally don't want someone that will get them in trouble.
Good examples might be, refusing to process a transaction that misrepresents funds or avoids tax, reporting an unaddressed Health&safety violation to the local regulator, refusing to go along with a staged drumming-out of an unpopular employee, standing up for a colleagues rights against management...
That should do it.
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