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.
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.
He sounds crazy.
Nuts
It's a souvenir. If anyone calls them on it, the proper response is, "I thought you wanted me to bring it with me when I started."
Rude is one thing. This is quite another.
Would she have preferred that he spend his time chatting up the receptionist or thinking about his job? Not talking to people is not being dismissive. You may have something on your mind, (like a job interview) and be nervous which leads you to being taciturn.
That is ok. He would not have enjoyed working for her in any case. She wanted a chatty cathy.
Don’t they have girls to do this?
Back in the 80’s, interviewing kids to work at my bike shop I’d ask “how many counties in Nebraska?” I gave them a day (the local library was next door) Some didn’t answer. Others would give the right answer. It was the one’s who gave the right answer and said “why did you want to know that?” that I hired.
Boss sounds like a sadist.
I thank the interviewer for the cup and then go out to my car which is parked in the Employee of the Month spot.