When it comes to job interviews, most candidates spend hours preparing answers to frequently asked questions. But no matter how prepared you feel, there’s no guarantee that you won’t be thrown a curveball intentionally designed to reveal your true personality.
One man claims that at ROTC nuclear school, interviewers go out of their way to test candidates. The man told the Mirror US newspaper, “My brother was in ROTC when he was in college, and he told me this story. During the interview, applicants to the ROTC nuclear school sit in front of the interviewer’s desk. “I was sitting in a chair,” he said.
“There was a second similar chair on the side of the room available to applicants. The chair in front of the applicant’s desk had one leg suspended so that the person sitting in the chair wobbled during the examination. It was cut short.” A successful test would be to see if the applicant has the courage to briefly interrupt the interview and request that their chair be replaced with a second chair or another. was. That way, applicants don’t falter. ”
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This comes after boss Trent Innes revealed that candidates are given a simple “coffee cup test” to determine whether they are suitable for the job.Trent claims he doesn’t hire people who fail at their jobs. “Coffee Cup Test” This is because he believes that a person’s attitude reflects better than the interview questions. He relied on it so much that anyone who failed at it was automatically blacklisted and prohibited from working for the company.
Trent, who previously worked at Xero Australia but left in September 2021, previously shared his tips while speaking to entrepreneur Lambros Photios on business podcast The Venture. In a 2019 podcast, he explained, “I always take you for a walk to my kitchen, and for some reason you always end up leaving with a drink.
“Then I bring it back and do the interview. And one of the things I always look for at the end of the interview is, does the person I’m interviewing want to take that empty cup back to the kitchen?” Yes, you can not only develop your skills, but also gain knowledge and experience, but what really matters is attitude, and the attitude we often talk about is the concept of “washing your coffee cup”. ”
He claims this trick works like magic and says his office kitchen is always very clean. Furthermore, he added: “If you come into the Xero office any day, you’ll find that the kitchen is almost always clean and sparkling, and the concept of washing coffee cups fits right into that. I just want to make sure that I fit into the internal culture of Xero and really take on all the things that they need to do.”
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