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| Author: | pcernie [ Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Currys interview 'humiliation' as graduate 'made to dance' |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Currys interview 'humiliation' as graduate 'made to dance' |
It shows that the recruitment process failed at Curry's. Maybe they should make the bosses do interviews to keep their jobs? While it is hard to distinguish between people for some jobs in some studies they found that many hiring decisions could just as easily been made by tossing a coin without ill effects. |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Currys interview 'humiliation' as graduate 'made to dance' |
If that had happened to me, I'd have given them the finger. Or maybe just walked out. |
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| Author: | ShockWaffle [ Thu Sep 05, 2013 6:30 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Currys interview 'humiliation' as graduate 'made to dance' | |||||||||
Lots of companies do or allow or kind of tacitly encourage similar things. They think the qualities they are looking for in a candidate include "zany" and they suppose the best way to discover this facility is to place people outside of their comfort zones. They want people who abandon self-consciousness and join in, something to do with team dynamics and so on. This kid is a cry-baby who spent a week prepping for an interview at Currys and then flunked it. The manager who asked him to do the dance is a dick who probably also thinks he can establish the character of the man with a handshake. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Thu Sep 05, 2013 6:50 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Currys interview 'humiliation' as graduate 'made to dance' | |||||||||
Or maybe they're after people who are so desperate for a job that they'll humiliate themselves to get one, on the grounds that they are more likely to then put up with any humiliations the management decide to heap upon them later? You know, people who value a paycheque more than their dignity. Or am I just being cynical? Being able to dance on command like a trained monkey has feck all to do with a job as a sales person in a white goods store. I'd much rather Currys recruited people who actually vaguely knew something about the stuff they're selling and had some enthusiasm about doing so like that guy had. But no, they'd much rather have 'zany' people who will do whatever the hell management tell them to do without question or objection. Which isn't at all a contributing factor as to why they're going to the effing wall. I'm with CW. If they'd asked me to do that in an interview I'd very loudly have told them to stick their job where the sun doesn't shine. And I suspect after one person had done so, most if not all of the other candidates would too. |
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