The interview doesn’t go according to plan: they ask you strange questions, something you didn’t expect, and behave peculiarly. Sound familiar?
If so, we will describe a few cases when it is better to stop the interview.
1. They ask you to leave your passport:
credit card data, debit card, or any other personal information you are unwilling to give as collateral.
In this case, your future employer is either a scammer or does not fully understand what a “stressful interview” is. Almost certainly the former.
Everything you need from your information is already on your resume – full name and contacts, from requests and demands to provide something more, run as fast as you can.
2. They ask you to pay for:
the course, the printout of the employment contract, and the coffee they bring you.
The last two points look incredibly ridiculous, but it happens. Paying for training is also unacceptable. If your skills don’t fit the employer, they won’t hire you. And if you provide, but something needs improvement, the company does it at their own expense. Quit.
3. Asked to leave as a deposit:
your passport, credit card data, debit card, or any other personal data that you are not willing to give
In this case, your future employer is either a scammer or does not fully understand what a “stressful interview” is. Almost certainly the former.
Everything you need from your information is already on your resume – full name and contacts, from requests and demands to provide something more, run as fast as you can.
4. The HR person before the interview instructs you on how to talk to your supervisor
You have come to a serious company. A solid office, everything seems to be okay. And then the person in charge takes you by the elbow and confidentially tells you that the manager doesn’t like it when people don’t look him in the eye, use the word “project,” and stop talking before they hear the next question.
If the employer meets you like this, what happens when you sign the contract? The interview has nothing to do with staring: you, too, can and should evaluate a potential supervisor – understand whether or not the position is proper for you.
5. Inadequate behavior and your position do not provide for a stressful interview
The manager shouts that you are nobody and cannot do anything, his deputy gets hysterical because of the color of your tie, and a recruiter sneaks up from behind and tells you that you are a disappointment.
If your interview resembles a late-night talk show, but you’re not applying for a job on a talk show, or your position doesn’t involve a stressful discussion – walk away. Take care of yourself and your nerves.
6. You don’t like what’s going on.
That’s okay, too. If you feel something is wrong, even if you can’t articulate precisely what – leave anyway. You probably don’t want to work here, and wasting time on weird interviews is unproductive.
7. Recruiter distracted by extraneous matters.
Anyone who devotes all 480 (or even 600 or 720) minutes of his working day exclusively to work, let him be the first to throw a stone at the recruiter who left the interviewer alone for a few minutes.
But who will be pleased if your interview is constantly interrupted by phone calls or correspondence? Would you talk to your boss that way, too? 28% of respondents said it annoys them when a recruiter is constantly distracted by something.
8. The recruiter doesn’t understand the job seeker’s profession.
A professional recruiter is usually not required to know every profession. But this means that they can conduct interviews by competencies only with candidates for a limited pool of vacancies – the ones where no special knowledge is required (and thus available to the recruiter himself).
For example, sales managers, customer service managers, salespeople, telephone operators, etc.
But real specialists should be interviewed by competent representatives of the company. It is funny when the editor’s test assignment is checked with a cheat sheet or can not understand how an installer of the firewall differs from the installer of the LAN. Sadly, the fate of applicants is often affected by decisions made at random.
A multi-step interview, a mass interview, and a conversation with several recruiters at once cause much less negativity among job seekers: less than a quarter of those surveyed voted for these options.
Interestingly, men and women responded similarly to some options and different to others. For example, female job seekers reacted worse to questions about personal life, delinquency, and unkindness. Conversely, men are more often irritated than women by the recruiter’s incompetence in their profession.
9. Evasive answers.
You want to know the truth about us, and we want to see the truth about your company. Some things are already clear from your questions (“How do you feel about the need to report colleagues’ misconduct to their superiors?”).
But not everything.
Therefore, 42% of respondents believe that recruiters should not wrinkle their noses when a job seeker asks a question that interests them. The answer has a lot to do with their choice.
By the way, recruiters’ silence is a good indicator. If the company has a halo of secrecy about the salary and the job description, imagine how many skeletons in the closet are waiting for you!
A note for the job seeker: your answers and the questions the recruiter remembers and analyzes. For example, if you mention the size of your salary more than once or twice, the employer might conclude that you are focused on profits.
10. Questions about your personal life.
“How long have you been married?”, “Who supports you?”, “What was your mother’s job?”, “What do you like to do in your spare time?” etc. On the one hand, these questions allow you to gather more information about the applicant. On the other hand – is it worth the spoiled atmosphere of the interview? Many job seekers (38%) do not like questions about personal life, perceiving them as an attempt to interfere in the sphere that the employer should not care about.
11. Questionnaires and psychological tests
Questionnaires rarely reveal their authors to be good sociologists and more often resemble applications for slavery: passport data, names, and addresses of relatives. We can find them everywhere. We can get them out of the ground.
But it is not so much a questionnaire. It is the lack of attention. You can ask the same thing during the interview. Ah, no time? Too many candidates? And what is the job for which they come in droves? Probably a massive one – a sales consultant, nothing more. Even if that position called Key Account Manager.
And even if it is mass, it would be much better to place the questionnaire or the test on the Internet and not waste the applicant’s time on a trip.
The main thing to remember: you do not owe anyone anything. If you don’t like something – you have every right to get up, apologize and leave.
Work should be enjoyable, and a job interview is an important part of getting jobs in Qatar. It is also a great chance to see if it can meet your expectations.
You may have already chosen in favor of a particular employer and agreed to it. The other employers need to be told that you have selected another option. The most undesirable scenario is that the employer calls and calls, waiting for a decision or even for a job, and the job seeker ignores and keeps silent.
What is the best thing to do? First, according to so-and-so criteria, you can honestly say that you have another offer (without the company’s name) in which you are more interested. Then, as a last resort, write about the same. But don’t keep quiet. This is the most unprofessional behavior. And remember – don’t burn bridges. Your paths can cross in the professional world.
You can use reasons that job seekers cite for rejection:
– Uninteresting financial conditions or structure of the compensation package.
– Unsuitable working conditions: office, workplace, location.
– Lack of professional development opportunities or uninteresting job positions: “I’ve done it all before. There is no novelty, no development zone.
– Mismatch of experience with what needs to be done (when the applicant understands that he will not be able to do the job).
– Mismatch in views or temperament with a potential supervisor.
– The company’s corporate culture is not close in spirit.
– Volume of business trips.
So, if the interview doesn’t go according to plan, you can end it yourself and go. That’s better to quit than deal with anything you can’t stand from the beginning.