Dear Recruiters,

This is a plea to desist from asking candidates sensitive and personal questions and focus on technicalities and behavior during interviews. If candidates willingly want to share sensitive pieces of information with you, they will do so on their terms, anything asides from that, please mind your business!

Stop asking irrelevant questions during the interview;

⛔When will you get married, you seem to be getting older.

⛔Don't you think you look too fat for this role?

⛔Since you are not married, do you think you will have stability in this role?

⛔Can you resume early and close at 11 pm?
(they want you to be the minister of sunrise and sunset 🙄🙄).

⛔ Why don't you have a husband or a wife?

⛔ Can you climb the stairs; "this one you are big like this?"

⛔ Why are you a single parent?


One recruiter during my Job hunting days told me, "You are in your early 30s don't you think you should get a husband soonest". My response to her is if she knows any market they are selling husbands, I would gladly love to buy one. That sarcasm ended the interview. I thanked her for the session, carried my bag, and went home.

What is the most insensitive question a recruiter has ever asked you??

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What are the most shocking statements (or questions) you have ever been asked or told during Interviews?
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Rubyjade:
Why not married?

I simply told her to give me her brother or any man in her family that has money and will gladly marry him the next day.

The whole office turned into a grave yard followed by thanks and God bless you for honoring our invite

Wawelexy:



Lol.... Savage served at its peak

Onyeka90210:
"Why did you apply for this job?"
Very insensitive.
I mean, can't you see my condition already.

SegunBABA007:
What’s your name ? , And the idiot is holding my CV.

IyaTola:
As funny as this post is, the questions they bear are rather appalling.

They seem unbelievable too, however, they are the truth, nonetheless.

In my own case, I was still job hunting as a fresh graduate and the interview was for a teaching position in a private school.

One of the interviewers, a senior staff member at the school, looked at me and said my earrings were too flashy.

It wasn't so much the question as the disdainful sneer on his face as he said it.

Apparently, being a member of a particular church who didn't believe that women should wear jewelry, mine were too much for him.

Now, you'd expect that he would give the job to someone rather more conservatively dressed than I was (according to him) but, the other lady lost out too, because she was newly married.

His reason when I asked her was, since she was already pregnant (he asked her if she was when he learned she was newly married), they didn't need someone who would be going on maternity leave soon.

I thought mine was bad, until I heard her story.

Thankfully, I am where I am today.

Onyeka90210:
"Why did you apply for this job?"
Very insensitive.
I mean, can't you see my condition already.

Rubyjade:
Why not married?

I simply told her to give me her brother or any man in her family that has money and will gladly marry him the next day.

The whole office turned into a grave yard followed by thanks and God bless you for honoring our invite

SegunBABA007:
What’s your name ? , And the idiot is holding my CV.

Tats:


Actually, this could be a valid question. The Interviewer wants to be sure you are who they are holding their CV and should be interviewing to avoid mixup. Similar thing happens in hospitals when they hold your record.