wristbangle:


Bro, I am equally perplexed like you when I read the story.

For crying out loud, why would a recruiter judge a candidate based on her starving stomach knowing that they were the one that caused it by delaying her.

Some organisation judgement to access potential employees is horrible.

As for me, I totally disagree with her HR friend



Madam, this method to test her competence is archaic and seriously flawed. She might pretend and eventually collapsed during the interview session. On whose account would that read for. She didn't do anything wrong

jeeqaa7:
Nothing is free...
Who knows what was put in that food?
That your stomach doesn't ache you doesn't mean you are safe.

Na so some people dey chop dia destiny for mouth..

ask esau.
Hope you prayed at least before eating the food.

bakynes:
Lemme make a few points here;

First, she wasn't tested with the food besides she was offered lunch she didn't request for it.

Second,She should have told the personel that asked her if she wanted lunch, that she wanted snacks. Why would a job seeker be eating oily food when she has an interview before her, that could make her too heavy or fit for the interview. Too heavy?? except the job is athletics

Finally, there is nothing bad accepting to eat if offered since they wasted her time for 3 hours, it's only normal to offer her lunch, I have been to quite a few interviews and they did offer us snacks not food, so she should have requested the personel buy her snacks instead of food.
Since most HR personnel interviewers access your dressing based on the Job,she was simply Disqualified because of the stain not for accepting food.

elantraceey:



Collapse? After just three hours? Then what will happen if she needs to work eight hours straight without food for something urgent? If you're going for an interview, you should go prepared, all round. What about people that are made to wait for 6-10 hours nko? You didn't go there to eat, you went for a job, wisdom should tell you what to do.

naturefellow:
Oga, never go to engagements as an interview or physical assessment or examination on an empty stomach.

Andy2274:
. You just judged yourself. Tell me what preparation is. I am not surprised if you are one of them that put graduate through written test and 3 oral interviews and the only time you see them smile at the applicant is when they want to tell you that your salary is #30,000 and you will work from Monday to Saturday. Go to good companies if they do all these nonsense. They give you time not those idiots that will send you interview message by 7pm for interview the next day by 8am at lekki when they see Iyana ipaja in your address. I have attended interview with 2 oil firms they serve breakfast and pay me. Ask anybody that have attended interview with Total and Saipem like 5 years back. HR people like you that graduate with 3rd class and was manipulated to be in position will be looking for first class and second class upper with 25years of age and 3yrs experience for a job of 30k.

enigmang:


Yea .. i agree with the stain.. but you can eat without getting soiled. plus most likely it could be these companies that have lunch served to staff, and someone is offering you what they have, you say no go an buy me snack?

hardbody:


In all my interviews with the upstream oil and gas companies, buffet was always part of the bargain and i will assume it's part of the assessment only to the extent they want to know how cultured you are and not to test my focus on the job. It will be arbitrary and unreasonable to remain hungry when I have food and the time to eat it. I have, on my own, requested for coffee a number of times in the course of an interview and it has never been used against me.

Alexgeneration:
All these useless standards to assess job seekers are because there are no jobs in this country. Most of these frustrated HR just capitalize on it to torment and punish job seekers.

To hell with their dumb job and recruitment process

elantraceey:



Collapse? After just three hours? Then what will happen if she needs to work eight hours straight without food for something urgent? If you're going for an interview, you should go prepared, all round. What about people that are made to wait for 6-10 hours nko? You didn't go there to eat, you went for a job, wisdom should tell you what to do.

wristbangle:


You are right bro but what if she rejected the meal which would be against the organisation culture? They might see her as being proud or rude.

elantraceey:


It is true that the recruiting skill of firms in this country is lacking the ability to select capable employees for various positions afterall employment is rarely based on merit else we won't be having a dullard for a president but we ain't talking about the recruiting skill of the firm here but about the decision of the lady , whatever happened to courtesy and simply saying no, thank you! Or maybe later? It was just for 2 hours 10mins for Christ sake! It's not about being real or fake, it's about perseverance, patience, focus , etc.

elantraceey:



Collapse? After just three hours? Then what will happen if she needs to work eight hours straight without food for something urgent? If you're going for an interview, you should go prepared, all round. What about people that are made to wait for 6-10 hours nko? You didn't go there to eat, you went for a job, wisdom should tell you what to do.

wristbangle:
A young lady was invited to an interview for an entry level role. She arrived at the venue exactly 10minutes before the scheduled time and was asked to stay at the waiting room.

40 minutes later, a young man worked into the waiting room and apologised to her for the delay. He explained to her that the head of HR is trying to resolved an issue with an irate customer but will be with her shortly.

An hour 30mins later, the young man came back to apologize for further delay. This time around asked her if he could ger her lunch. Apparently this young lady was hungry and could no longer bare it. She accepted and a sumptuous meal was served.

She ate to her satisfaction but in the process got her white shirt stained with oil.

Not long after she finished her meal, the head of HR sent for her and immediately the interview began. The first question she was asked was "What happened to your shirt" She explained and the interview continued. At the end of the interview, she was told the usual "we will get back to you". When she got home, she narrated her experience to an HR friend.

Her friend told her it was wrong to have accepted the lunch as it could be used against her during decision making.

Do you agree with the HR friend?


Source: HR Forum Africa Post On LinkedIn

Lalasticlala

elantraceey:
I believe it was done to test her patience and focus on her objective, she didn't go there to eat but to get a job, if refreshment was initially stated as a part of the interview then it won't be wrong.

jeeqaa7:
Nothing is free...

Who knows what was put in that food?

That your stomach doesn't ache you doesn't mean you are safe.


Na so some people dey chop dia destiny for mouth..


ask esau.

Hope you prayed at least before eating the food.

wristbangle:
A young lady was invited to an interview for an entry level role. She arrived at the venue exactly 10minutes before the scheduled time and was asked to stay at the waiting room.

40 minutes later, a young man worked into the waiting room and apologised to her for the delay. He explained to her that the head of HR is trying to resolved an issue with an irate customer but will be with her shortly.

An hour 30mins later, the young man came back to apologize for further delay. This time around asked her if he could ger her lunch. Apparently this young lady was hungry and could no longer bare it. She accepted and a sumptuous meal was served.

She ate to her satisfaction but in the process got her white shirt stained with oil.

Not long after she finished her meal, the head of HR sent for her and immediately the interview began. The first question she was asked was "What happened to your shirt" She explained and the interview continued. At the end of the interview, she was told the usual "we will get back to you". When she got home, she narrated her experience to an HR friend.

Her friend told her it was wrong to have accepted the lunch as it could be used against her during decision making.

Do you agree with the HR friend?

Source: HR Forum Africa Post On LinkedIn

Lalasticlala

arrestdarrester:
Forget all these DOs and DON'Ts.

Wow them with confidence and competency.

But I advice you politely reject the meal with "I ate just before getting here", 'cause if you don't, you have only broadened the scope of the interview to your own disadvantage.

elantraceey:



Collapse? After just three hours? Then what will happen if she needs to work eight hours straight without food for something urgent? If you're going for an interview, you should go prepared, all round. What about people that are made to wait for 6-10 hours nko? You didn't go there to eat, you went for a job, wisdom should tell you what to do.

sholarb:
You have to be exceptionally good to be hired in this situation (the oil stain alone says a lot about your type of person). People do wait all day to be interviewed so you have to be prepared for the worst you can think of.

I once went for an entry level interview and was delayed for a long time. At the end I was offered transport fare which I gladly accepted. Did I get the job, yes I did.

MaconAwire:
CHAI!!


this one weak me!!

the do's n don'ts for this job tin don too much sef!!
mtcheew as if the HR people no be humans.....



wire was here!

Andy2274:
. You just judged yourself. Tell me what preparation is. I am not surprised if you are one of them that put graduate through written test and 3 oral interviews and the only time you see them smile at the applicant is when they want to tell you that your salary is #30,000 and you will work from Monday to Saturday. Go to good companies if they do all these nonsense. They give you time not those idiots that will send you interview message by 7pm for interview the next day by 8am at lekki when they see Iyana ipaja in your address. I have attended interview with 2 oil firms they serve breakfast and pay me. Ask anybody that have attended interview with Total and Saipem like 5 years back. HR people like you that graduate with 3rd class and was manipulated to be in position will be looking for first class and second class upper with 25years of age and 3yrs experience for a job of 30k.

wristbangle:
A young lady was invited to an interview for an entry level role. She arrived at the venue exactly 10minutes before the scheduled time and was asked to stay at the waiting room.

40 minutes later, a young man worked into the waiting room and apologised to her for the delay. He explained to her that the head of HR is trying to resolved an issue with an irate customer but will be with her shortly.

An hour 30mins later, the young man came back to apologize for further delay. This time around asked her if he could ger her lunch. Apparently this young lady was hungry and could no longer bare it. She accepted and a sumptuous meal was served.

She ate to her satisfaction but in the process got her white shirt stained with oil.

Not long after she finished her meal, the head of HR sent for her and immediately the interview began. The first question she was asked was "What happened to your shirt" She explained and the interview continued. At the end of the interview, she was told the usual "we will get back to you". When she got home, she narrated her experience to an HR friend.

Her friend told her it was wrong to have accepted the lunch as it could be used against her during decision making.

Do you agree with the HR friend?

Source: HR Forum Africa Post On LinkedIn

Lalasticlala

jazzyjazz:
Paymentvoucher and gem3 what's your view on this topic?