My sister has come home from America where she is currently living, for the "Holidays". She has married a good all American boy but one of the stipulations for being granted a visa was that she had to obtain a job within a certain period. My sis has degrees in English Lit and American History and Lit. but has ended up running a small hotel complex. Anyway it turns out that she was offered the job solely because she used the word "keen" in her personal profile. Basically she found out because her superior mention it over lunch one day. He said "yeah me n the guys were sitting around the table reviewing C.V.s and i said, hey i like this girl, she says keen" lol
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just thought i'd metnion it as Tim and i have had a laugh about Shauns tie and alcoholism joke at interview and i was wondering if any of you have either ended up where you are today or been offered a role for some bizzarre reason.
Keep smiling
Neil
-- Edited by Spamkebab on Tuesday 13th of December 2011 08:50:50 AM
My last employed job was as Credit Manager for a global company and I temped there for three months before they interviewed for the job. I was interviewed along with 4 others who had come via recruitment agencies. My manager asked for me to pretend not to know the FD when the other candidates and I had lunch with him on the selection day in case they thought I had an unfair advantage so when we were all gathered together in a room and he walked in and was introduced I walked up to him, stuck out my hand, shook his and said "Good morning Mr Rhodes, delighted to meet you". They liked the fact that I kept a straight face and acted as if I didn't know him despite having been working for him for 3 months... Two of the others were much better qualified than me to do the job but my sense of humour (or irony) won the day
My last boss told me I got the job because I said the right words when he left a pause. For example, he was talking about the day to day running and said "the bookkeeping would take too long because there wasn't many, errrr," and this was my cue to say "transactions". He did a few of these while we were talking (I didn't know this was his intention) and he said I was the only one that came up with the answers which meant I had the knowledge to answer and the confidence to have an equal conversation with my peers.
I thought it was quite a good way to see if a potential employee would be able to hold their own with the rest of the staff.
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If i found myself in that position Nikki the interviewer would have prolly had a stammer and i would have been marched out the building for taking the P. Clare's story is very cheeky, but i love it!
I once had an interview on the 13th floor of a high rise office building. Upon arriving at the building the lift doors were about to close, the attendant of the lift saw me and duly opened the lift door for me.
The lift was packed and I just about got in, but because it was so packed I could not turn around to face the doors, so I was facing everyone in the lift and they were all looking at me. I felt myself going red in the face and those who know what I mean will understand that when you think youre going red in the face you get redder in the face than you can possibly imagine. I was getting paranoid and I could feel a panic attack coming on.
Directly facing me was a lady of considerable size, and to this day I dont know why I did what I did next.
I grabbed both of her cheeks (face) with my two hands and with a huge smile on my face (which was by now scarlet) shouted "CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKY"
Everyone in the lift burst out laughing, including the large lady whose cheeks I had pulled. The attendant was crying.
I arrived on my floor and the large lady got out on the same floor, and yes your right this very large lady was the person who interviewed me for the job, she was still laughing about it during the interview and yes I got the job, another day it could have been a slap in the face but alls well then ends well.
-- Edited by TRAINING LINK on Wednesday 14th of December 2011 10:58:57 AM
I knew you would like that one, I have no idea why I did it, I had to do something as I was about to have a panic attack lol, and besides I love humour so I turned an awkward personal situation in to a humorous one, it was a spur of the moment thing and I have always been a bit of a loose cannon, I will have to tell you about the time I went for a meal with my other half, the owner of Training Link and his good lady wife, but that is for another day lol
Well as you like a laff Neil I was thinking about posting a BKN Dinner Party question where BKN members have to pick 4 other members of the forum who they would choose to have a dinner party with, giving their reasons why. Could be a bit of fun for the weekend but alas I cant be on forums during office hours as I have work to do, but never fear my friend a Dave story will soon be on its way.
