Job interview during which you realised you weren't getting the Job.


I applied for a post I ticked every single box on, and early on in the interview I knew they were going through the motions, so I started giving the most bizarre and random answers to their questions.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years? - on a beach somewhere warm.
Why do you say that? - because I do the lottery.
Turned out they did indeed appoint someone internally and it was their own policy that made them need external applicants to measure against internal ones.
 
Bkk Andy said:
I was interviewed by a middle-aged woman when I was 21 and straight out of university. Midway through the interview she stopped and said, "I really like you but you don't want this job, do you?" She was right so I told her I didn't.

We "slept" together later that evening. I didn't get the job but it's still my favourite ever interview.
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Happened to me that once…. But I got the job….. Simon was a great boss
 
magicjuan said:
I applied for a post I ticked every single box on, and early on in the interview I knew they were going through the motions, so I started giving the most bizarre and random answers to their questions.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years? - on a beach somewhere warm.
Why do you say that? - because I do the lottery.
Turned out they did indeed appoint someone internally and it was their own policy that made them need external applicants to measure against internal ones.
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Recently applied for a good job in local council, I had all the quals required, experience and had basically been doing the same job for years, had a feeling I wouldn’t get it when one of the candidates had the same obscure surname as one of the interview panel 😂😂
 

Ring master said:
When younger I had a job interview just to do some type of stock take job. During the interview i had no clue about the answers to questions asked so just waffled my way thought to make it seem like i understood what they were going on about. The next day it turned out the questions they were asking me were to be a manager at the place :lol: Weird thing was they actually offered me the job and i turned them down as got offered a factory job closer to were i live same day
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This explains so many managers I've encountered over the years.
 
One of my first job interviews as a teacher, at a local Catholic comp. The wind was taken right out of my sails in the interview, when I realised the aged Catholic priest on the panel was fast asleep, complete with drool out the side of his mouth.

In my defense, he was in his 70s, it was a hot summer day, he was wearing black and sat in the sun by a window. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
 
summerisle said:
For some stupid, stupid, stupid reason, on hobbies on the application form I put climbing mountains. Unfortunately, for me, one of the interviewers also liked climbing mountains ; there was only going to be one result. :lol:

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For those who don’t understand this, mountain climbing is hugely competitive and the interviewer will have likely said they climbed the biggest peak on the planet instead of feeling outdone by our poor interviewee.
 
Generally speaking, I'm really good at interviews. I conduct them all the time and have extensive experience coaching people how to do them. But the only interview I did where I didn't get the job was one I really wanted. They were late calling me into it and for some reason I worked myself up into a frenzy in the lobby in that 15 minutes. My presentation went overtime and they cut me off and for some reason I still can't explain, I just fell apart like wet bread in the interview itself and couldn't string a coherent answer together. I was a deflated man coming out of that, one of the most embarrassing moments of my professional life
 

Kurt. said:
Recently applied for a good job in local council, I had all the quals required, experience and had basically been doing the same job for years, had a feeling I wouldn’t get it when one of the candidates had the same obscure surname as one of the interview panel 😂😂
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Reason I recognised my situation was because I'd been on the other side while working for the council. I was drafted onto the panel, given questions to ask and told who was getting the job.
Of 5 applicants 2 were vastly more appropriate and experienced and right for the post. The girl who got it cost me £20k in 'ring fenced' wages following a review and 'realignment' of CMS, by reminding them of a deadline we'd all agreed to keep quiet about. They posted the restructure at 17.10 on the Friday. If they'd left it till Monday my post would be ring fenced for 2 years at 5 grades higher.
She made the call to them at 16.55.
Karma I suppose for not speaking out.
 
I went to Harrogate Parks for a top Nursery position - 6 interviewing - I just felt it was a set up - so when any questions came up I asked to see the nursery - the panel seemed set back - what for they asked - I want to see the set up, & were my employment will be & have a good look at the Nursery -
The top personnel officer reluctantly stood up & after a drive of 20 minutes - we arrived - As I walked around the pathetic Nursery site - an old man working in the nursery - related to me he was retiring & the young trained apprentice had already got the job - he had been interviewed first thing in the morning & he was useless - they were just interviewing for a no 2 to nurture him ...
I had travelled over 50 miles with my wife & young baby - from the Whalley Clitheroe area NE Lancashire were I was working at that time - I was fuming -
I went back silent & waitd for the outcome all the interviewee's were called back in individually - I was last in & was offered the post as an assistant on less pay etc - exactly what I found out of the retiring boss in their nursery - I bit my lip & ask for my expenses form & told them I would sleep on it ....

Little did they know I let them wait 4 weeks before I declined their offer & told them I was moving to a better job in a better Nursery in Cheshire - Interviews are an important phase if you are chosen you negotiate pay - job title ,holidays etc - housing if moving areas etc
You try to put the interviewers in their place in a nice way .....

My NEBBS management course told me that point ....

As once you accept their terms & conditions once you start they are usually set in stone by them ....
 
Joey66 said:
I went to Harrogate Parks for a top Nursery position - 6 interviewing - I just felt it was a set up - so when any questions came up I asked to see the nursery - the panel seemed set back - what for they asked - I want to see the set up, & were my employment will be & have a good look at the Nursery -
The top personnel officer reluctantly stood up & after a drive of 20 minutes - we arrived - As I walked around the pathetic Nursery site - an old man working in the nursery - related to me he was retiring & the young trained apprentice had already got the job - he had been interviewed first thing in the morning & he was useless - they were just interviewing for a no 2 to nurture him ...
I had travelled over 50 miles with my wife & young baby - from the Whalley Clitheroe area NE Lancashire were I was working at that time - I was fuming -
I went back silent & waitd for the outcome all the interviewee's were called back in individually - I was last in & was offered the post as an assistant on less pay etc - exactly what I found out of the retiring boss in their nursery - I bit my lip & ask for my expenses form & told them I would sleep on it ....

Little did they know I let them wait 4 weeks before I declined their offer & told them I was moving to a better job in a better Nursery in Cheshire - Interviews are an important phase if you are chosen you negotiate pay - job title ,holidays etc - housing if moving areas etc
You try to put the interviewers in their place in a nice way .....

My NEBBS management course told me that point ....

As once you accept their terms & conditions once you start they are usually set in stone by them ....
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So basically, they didn’t think you worthy of the job and instead gave it to somebody useless. Sounds like a ‘You’ problem Joseph
 

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