Picking out the perfect candidate for a job out of the hundred others who have applied for the job is no easy task. The process takes time and often a lot of contemplation. There are a lot of unique interview techniques that interviewers use these days to filter out the good ones with accuracy and ease.
Techniques like an interview over breakfast or strategically planting the hiring manager on the front desk to gauge how applicants interact with the receptionist are all regularly used by interviewers to test applicants.
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- Interviewer Uses Unique Wobbly Chair Test
- Applicant Is Given Choice To Sit In the Wobbly Chair Or Wiggle Out Of It And Move To A Comfortable One
Interviewer Uses Unique Wobbly Chair Test
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Interviewers add an extra element just to see how the candidates will react to it, like an impromptu stress simulation. One such unique test is the wobbly chair test. The interview technique involves purposefully giving a wobbly chair to the candidate to measure how they would react in stressful situations.
The aim of this experiment is to make the candidate feel at ease, see their reaction to the inconvenience, and see how bold an applicant can get. Basically, to observe if the candidate is “bold” enough to ask for a chair replacement or not.
A man revealed this to US Mirror: “My brother was in ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) in college, and he told me this story. An applicant for ROTC Nuclear Power School would sit in the chair in front of the desk of the interviewing officer during the interview.”
Applicant Is Given Choice To Sit In the Wobbly Chair Or Wiggle Out Of It And Move To A Comfortable One
During the interview, the applicant is given a choice: there is one chair with a shorter leg in front of the desk, while another stands silently on the side of the room. The chair in front of the desk has one leg that has been strategically cut to make the applicant sitting on it feel uncomfortable as it wobbles throughout the interview.
The test would be to see if the applicant was bold enough to stop the interview for a second and request to exchange the chair with the short leg for the perfectly level one sitting at the corner of the room.
A similar test was one where the interviewer would offer tea or coffee to the applicant and observe if they took back the cup to clean it in the office sink or, without any effort to dispose of it, left the interview. These interview tests are making it extra tedious for applicants to get a job nowadays. What do you think is the right way to tackle the broken chair test?
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Source: vtt.edu.vn