Inappropriate Behavior During Interviews

등록일: 09.15.2015 15:51:27  |  조회수: 1333

You’re about to open the door and participate in a job interview. Your palms are sweating and you’re breathing heavily. You’ve revised all you can about the company and how your skills match the job and are fully prepared for questions on those subjects. Instead, the interviewer asks the question: “How would you interject in a fight between Batman and Superman?” Completely nonplussed, you dream of being zapped out of the interview.


It may sound bizarre but these are just some of the questions that candidates in the U.K. have been subjected to, according to CV-Library, an online job board. CV-Library have also explored candidates’ experiences of interviews in an exclusive survey for Forbes.com of 2,248 job-seekers in the U.K.. A handful of interviewers exhibited bizarre behavior from falling asleep to acting drunk and passing wind although these behaviours were very rare. Only 2.3% of interviewers passed wind and an even smaller percentage became intoxicated in an interview (1.5%).


The survey highlighted some interviewer questions which were very inappropriate and could lead to candidate discrimination such as age and family plans: 15% of candidates had been to an interview where an interviewer asked their age and 8.5% of candidates were asked if they planned to have children.


The more common mistakes made by interviewers revolved around punctuality and not knowing enough about the candidate. Two-fifths of candidates had been to an interview where the interviewer had been late and more than a third of candidates reported that the interviewer hadn’t read their resume. More than a quarter of interviewers failed to make eye contact with a candidate.


Luckily for those interviewers making mistakes, most candidates were forgiving: 64.8% would consider working for an interviewer that hadn’t fully prepared for an interview.


Lee Biggins, founder of CV-library remarked that the employers needed to be more careful in their recruitment as the job market in the U.K. was growing. “The number of candidates available are fewer so there are big corporates spending lots of money to attract the best so they need to ensure that their interviewers are better-prepared. While candidates are accepting of those mistakes, as more opportunities open up they will not get away with it as the job market becomes more competitive.”


The survey also explored how candidates felt about bad interviews: two-thirds of them would consider cutting an interview short or walking out if an interviewer was rude or inappropriate. However, opinion was split on whether to speak out against an interviewer if they disagreed. Older workers were more willing to speak up when they disagreed with an interviewer (78.6% of over 65 year olds) compared to only 42.8% of 18-24 years old.


<Source: http://www.forbes.com>




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