Desperate graduates forced to dance like monkeys for work

michaels

Hmm - I don't expect the workers in Currys to have any product knowledge or be geeky, I would expect them to be employed on their 'conviviality'. If they choose to structure the interview to see which candidates are flexible and willing to try their hand at anything, why is that a problem?

kabayiri

There are worse interviewing tools being used.

The use of telephone interviews is on the rise; something I detest. You can't read the interviewer's body language, to gauge their response to your answers.

There is also a lot of interest in stress analysers hooked up to the phone system, to try and detect when you might be lying. Clearly, they haven't cottoned on to the fact that being interviewed is in itself stressful!

Graham_Devon

michaels wrote: »

Hmm - I don't expect the workers in Currys to have any product knowledge or be geeky, I would expect them to be employed on their 'conviviality'. If they choose to structure the interview to see which candidates are flexible and willing to try there hand at anything, why is that a problem?

I'd guess because outright humiliation isn't part of interview techniques, in the main.

If this is OK, I guess the next question would be to ask where is the line? Sexual humiliation?

kabayiri

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I'd guess because outright humiliation isn't part of interview techniques, in the main.

If this is OK, I guess the next question would be to ask where is the line? Sexual humiliation?

A certain global IT company used a wonky chair, which would collapse if you sat on it, as a tool to put you off your guard.

...and this was over 2 decades ago.

It's probably gone on for decades.

Loughton_Monkey

When desperate losers need money, they'll do anything. Even if it involves public humilation. Some will even dress up, and have to tolerate forceful criticism by those who watch them. These days, such humiliation can even be filmed - to be shown to the candidate's friends, relatives, and the entire world...

Yes! Strictly Come Dancing starts tonight!:)

chris_m

loughton_monkey wrote: »

when desperate losers need money, they'll do anything. Even if it involves public humilation. Some will even dress up, and have to tolerate forceful criticism by those who watch them. These days, such humiliation can even be filmed - to be shown to the candidate's friends, relatives, and the entire world...
Yes! Strictly come dancing starts tonight!:)

rotflmao ;-)

grizzly1911

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Yes! Strictly Come Dancing starts tonight!:)

Not again !!!!!!, that , ice dancing, x factor, get me out of here, the voice, celebrity anything, should be consigned to interrogation techniques rather than the sound of dripping water.

zagubov

Sounds even dafter than the (presumably mythical) company that randomly dumped half of the job applications in the bin straight away to weed out the unlucky people.;)

antrobus

ruggedtoast wrote: »

....It is a sad state of affairs when qualified graduates and desperate older job seekers are forced to parade themselves for the titillation of rentier capitalists. Rentier capitalists who are themselves sucking the life from the country...

It's an even sadder state of affairs when people throw out phrases such as "rentier capitalists" without actually knowing what they mean.:) One might well be able to describe the owners and managers of Dixons Retail plc as being "capitalists", but "rentiers" they are not.

I blame the education system.

Itismehonest

Some companies certainly have weird means of selection but the fact that Alan Bacon & so many others like him have to go for a job with Curry's probably has more to do with his choice of degree than anything else.

Alan left the University of South Wales in July with a degree in documentary, film and TV

A degree is really only worth something if it's in an area in which employers are looking for staff.

With so many Media Studies type of degrees (& even degrees in surfing) I don't know how some graduates actually expect to find relevant jobs in the real world - even if the employment situation was brilliant let alone when it's dire.