Interview question question

[Metal Malcolm]

No, but my guess (based on every other HE interview i've gone for) is that they already had someone they wanted to promote to the position and were just going through the motions.

Sorry, feeling particularly mopey right now. I've decided that tonight i'm gonna get drunk.

 

[tastebud]

I got asked this once too and just couldn't enthuse - I had got to the end of the interview and decided that they weren't a professional enough outfit for me to want to work for. I ended up saying I would need to think about it and weigh things up against other good offers that I had also had. then emailed the agency to say I did not want it, once I got home.

The question that threw me in my interview the other day - all the other questions I had luckily totally prepared answers for - was 'If you got this job, which areas of the job do you perceive you would need training/development in?' I didn't know what to say - it totally took me by surprise! What are they looking for here? I began by saying that I had already developed a very similar project previously, knew the background really well, and then paused to say 'Hmm, let me think.' And then said that whilst I knew a fair amount, it would be good to completely learn all the most recent policy in the area. And that that would be my intention, prior to beginning post. Lame.

Anyway - I don't think I got it. At all.

 

[spanglechick]

Didn't get it. Asking for feedback now.

Bastards. Why bother getting my hopes up , I dunno...

it's a standard question in teaching, and more importantly, in lots of organisations exactly the same questions are asked to every candidate - including this one - to ensure fairness.

bad luck, though - but i'd never take it as a good sign in itself.

 

[Metal Malcolm]

it's a standard question in teaching, and more importantly, in lots of organisations exactly the same questions are asked to every candidate - including this one - to ensure fairness.

I've been really pissed off in the last few interviews i've been to, as it seems to me the questions have been taken straight from a "how to interview someone" guide - no real reference or relevance to the post, remarkably easy to give a standardised answer that tells them nothing new. Kind of makes me wonder why they bother.

 

[chainsaw cat]

No, but my guess (based on every other HE interview i've gone for) is that they already had someone they wanted to promote to the position and were just going through the motions.

Sorry, feeling particularly mopey right now. I've decided that tonight i'm gonna get drunk.

I meant so that you could take him out.