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Anyone ever refused to answer interview questions or walked out of an interview, I mean questions like what is your greatest achievement - its none their business, and most likely not related to the workplace.
What's your greatest weakness? - This is so generic, weakness in relation to what? and Why would you share your weaknesses with a bunch of strangers.
What would your last boss say about you? - insulting and offensive. saying that a bosses opinion is superior to your own.
Where will you be in five years time - coming from a organisations where your job in on the line every week, and will get rid of you at the drop of a hat.
Can you think of a time you went above and beyond your duty - again if you started doing other people jobs then you might get in trouble for stepping on someomes toes, or be told off for interfering in matters outside your job duties.
When interviewers ask these questions does it not just show their reading from a script, lack any kind of originality.
The more I think about it, interviews in corporate jobs are like this are just exercises in humilation, and the purpose of these type of questions is test your willingness to humilated, what lengths you will go, how much you can grovel.
How about refusing to answer these type of questions, or asking them for more detail, or asking them why they are just reading from a script
Anyone ever refused to answer interview questions or walked out of an interview, I mean questions like what is your greatest achievement - its none their business, and most likely not related to the workplace.
What's your greatest weakness? - This is so generic, weakness in relation to what? and Why would you share your weaknesses with a bunch of strangers.
What would your last boss say about you? - insulting and offensive. saying that a bosses opinion is superior to your own.
Where will you be in five years time - coming from a organisations where your job in on the line every week, and will get rid of you at the drop of a hat.
Can you think of a time you went above and beyond your duty - again if you started doing other people jobs then you might get in trouble for stepping on someomes toes, or be told off for interfering in matters outside your job duties.
When interviewers ask these questions does it not just show their reading from a script, lack any kind of originality.
The more I think about it, interviews in corporate jobs are like this are just exercises in humilation, and the purpose of these type of questions is test your willingness to humilated, what lengths you will go, how much you can grovel.
How about refusing to answer these type of questions, or asking them for more detail, or asking them why they are just reading from a script
Wow. Who crapped in your corn flakes? Go ahead and refuse to answer. Let us know how that works out.
If you posted an ad on Craigslist looking for someone to cut your grass, when you speak to them on the phone, would you hire them if they refused to answer your questions? Google power dynamics.
Anyone ever refused to answer interview questions or walked out of an interview, I mean questions like what is your greatest achievement - its none their business, and most likely not related to the workplace.
What's your greatest weakness? - This is so generic, weakness in relation to what? and Why would you share your weaknesses with a bunch of strangers.
What would your last boss say about you? - insulting and offensive. saying that a bosses opinion is superior to your own.
Where will you be in five years time - coming from a organisations where your job in on the line every week, and will get rid of you at the drop of a hat.
Can you think of a time you went above and beyond your duty - again if you started doing other people jobs then you might get in trouble for stepping on someomes toes, or be told off for interfering in matters outside your job duties.
When interviewers ask these questions does it not just show their reading from a script, lack any kind of originality.
The more I think about it, interviews in corporate jobs are like this are just exercises in humilation, and the purpose of these type of questions is test your willingness to humilated, what lengths you will go, how much you can grovel.
How about refusing to answer these type of questions, or asking them for more detail, or asking them why they are just reading from a script
I think you got this right. But if you refuse to answer their questions, you won't get the job. Someone who is an expert at groveling will, that someone who they are looking for. Most companies don't care about their credibility with job candidates. They have the money, and their employees have to dance and grovel like court jesters to get some of it.
I personally loathe those types of questions because they fail to assess your ability to actually do the job and whether or not you're a good fit for the actual position. Interviewers should do their homework about their candidates and ask them specific questions tailored to their background and how their acquired skills are transferable/applicable to the current position for which they're applying for.
On second thought, I guess those questions would appropriate for minimum wage positions where many of the applicants are either young or may not have much education or experience in general. But for an experienced professional or a someone further on in their career? No way.
I've not declined to answer interview questions (who does that?), but I have declined second interviews when I didn't like the line of questioning. One prospective employer asked a ton of personality-based questions that I read as red flags. I'm interested in joining your org because my skills are a good fit. If I wanted to be judged on what you think is my personality, I would have signed up for a pageant. "Fit" is important but if there is too much focus on that, it simply means that the employer is not for me.
That "greatest limitation" question works on 2 levels: it provides the interviewer insight into your skills AND your self-awareness of your limitations. The second part is valuable, because if you don't perceive yourself to have any limitations, you could be a challenge to manage, since you're likely to resist any and all criticism of your performance.
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Court Jesters?
