What was your first ever job interview?

hbk4894

mine was in 2011 , it was for an apprenticeship i think it was something like 10am till 2pm as we did maths english tests and then an interview at the end.

Deep_In_Debt

Over 30 years ago so too long ago for me to remember.

2gorgeousgirls

My 16th birthday, I had a job interview for student job with local supermarket.

Interview:

Manager - "so your Hugh 's daughter"

Me - "yes"

Manager - "start Thursday, 5pm".

Wish they were all that easy!

daytona0

Proper job was McDonalds about 9 years ago? They sat me down in the customer area and ran through some questions. I got a call an hour later asking me to start. Funnily enough, my pot smoking housemate had turned down the job a few days before. It didn't work out for them in the long run

DKLS

Interview at Sainsburys for a pot wash job, I was told I had too much hair gel, my suit was too big and wore too much aftershave.

So headed home and called in the golf club and asked if they had any jobs and they did, so started that evening. With tips I earnt double what Mr S was paying and I didn't have to wear a stupid uniform. :rotfl:

iamsmith

well.. i had first ever interview in 2006. it was pleasant experience

pmduk

Mine was 1977 for a building society 90 question arithmetic test (IIRC) and an interview with the manager, think it lasted an hour in total

scooby088

Mine was in 1990, at my dads place, interview lasted all of 5 mins and signed a contract after interview and started on the monday.

lisa110rry

Mine was when I was about 14, which would have been around 1970-ish. (It was in the US, different rules applied.) The job was to "bus" (clear) tables in a restaurant. I hated it and quit after a few weeks, although I was not new to the world of work even then. I had had a summer job as a "junior camp counselor" at a summer camp for disadvantaged children the previous summer. The pay for that was $1.45 per hour - great at the time and at that age. I continued with that each summer until I went to Uni, it was fun and I learned to canoe, shoot and many other skills along with assisting the older counselors. And my Mum didn't have to worry about me during the summer holidays. I would ride my bike to the YWCA in town and then board the bus with the others to the campground, which incidentally was called Tuscarora.

Fast forward to 1997 and the last-but-one interview I had for a Scene of Crime Officer with Lancashire Constabulary. Out of more than 600 applicants, I was one of 35 selected for second interview, but I blew it entirely. I'm sure I knew I couldn't handle the job emotionally and sabotaged myself on purpose (I went all girlie and giggly).

Been in the same industry now for 18.5 years and in the same firm for 13 of them, so no interviews lately.

TadleyBaggie

Probably for a paperboy job around 1967 with the local corner shop. My first serious interview was with the MOD for an electronic apprenticeship in 1969. Consisted of a 1 hour test paper and then having to bend a piece of wire to a specific shape. A few weeks later I was called in for a face to face interview. I was offered and took up the apprenticeship.

bingo_bango

1991 at a local factory my dad had worked in for 15 years (he left about 2 years before I tried for a post). I was 19 at the time.

Interview was for a foreman, lasted about 40 minutes in front of a 3 man panel. They gave me immediate feedback at the end. 'We would take you in a heartbeat, but the people you would be supervising are all in their 50's. No way they will accept someone as young as you. Can you come back in about 3 years?'.

Rather than kick off (no age discrimination in those days!) I took the positives from the fact that I aced my first formal interview, and learned a little more about selling myself correctly.

I never did go back