Posted on 08/07/2023 7:26:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Job interviews can be nerve-racking as many interviewees stress over how to best answer questions the employer throws at you.
But, not every company asks tough questions. One boss revealed the “coffee cup” test he uses in job interviews to determine whether an applicant is right for the role.
Former managing director for Xero Australia Trent Innes explained how he refuses to hire anyone if they fail to return an empty cup to the kitchen at the end of an interview.
“I will always take you for a walk down to one of our kitchens and somehow you always end up walking away with a drink,” Innes said in a resurfaced 2019 interview with the podcast “The Ventures”.
“Then we take the drink back, have our interview, and one of the things I’m always looking for at the end of the interview is, does the person doing the interview want to take that empty cup back to the kitchen?
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Former managing director for Xero Australia Trent Innes is a moron.
I think you can only do that, if you have a huge number of qualified applicants for the job, and you can afford to summarily reject someone due to that.
If you have trouble filling certain types of jobs, and/or you need someone to get into the position soon, you can’t afford to spend your time on things like this.
Actually.... i get it. Shows attention to detail. Shows not expecting someone else to clean up your messes.
Personally, I’ve always tried to hide my psychopathy until after they hire me.
I think it is fine. I don’t know if it should be the defining data point, but I think it is fine as a data point.
The way it is described is a data point, just watching behavior. Heck, everything in an interview is a data-point.
If you are interviewing someone and they are fiddling with their fingernails, that is a data point. Same thing.
I draw the line, though, at things that are obvious to both the interviewer and interviewee.
Admiral Hyman Rickover was a genius with a personality like a cactus, and was merciless and cruel in his job interviews, which were legendary.
He once made one guy go over and sit in a closet.
In this, it is a to me just a cruel demonstration of power, and I don’t like it. But hey, he got results, so there’s that.
In an interview situation it is sometimes hard to know what is appropriate. I’d certainly not hire someone who threw his trash in a plant or left rings on the coffee table. But they might feel a little presumptuous to head back to a kitchen uninvited to return a cup. One doesn’t always know what is expected.
Shows an awareness of good manners and the knowledge that showing such manners is usually a plus - unless you think this particuler interviewer will consider you “too compulsive.” !
How about reviewing their qualifications?
Just take the job prospect to Wal-Mart and then see if he puts his cart in the cart corral afterward.
Um, no. It’s petty. Trust me. I’m a businessman.
You know what I do to screen applicants?
Have them write a 150-word minimum outline on lined paper why they believe they’re a good fit for the job.
Narrows it down without getting petty REAL fast.
Exactly.
He sounds crazy.
I remember one time a hiring board said a certain candidate was not honest, because they didn't tell an interviewer he asked the same question and earlier interview did. I said candidates usually think that whatever interviewers do is intentional, not that they accidently asked the same question.
I have a friend who runs a construction business. He asks a candidate to get that hammer over there for him. If the guy hustles fetching the hammer, he’s in.
Nuts
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