Number one irritant ... Are you married ?
- Why does one know if I am married or not, unless you are my secret admirer or plan to be my lover. Does being married or not married make me a better or lesser performer ? Why do I get the feeling i get is that married folks, especially ladies, have a lower value in the job market ? Or does employers stereotype folks who are single as potential workaholics that they want to hire ?
- Does it matter at all ?? This is kinda pretty personal question to ask someone you met for the first time.To this question, i was pretty pissed off and retorted coldly with "Why do you need to know?". The interviewer meekly explained to me that they just wanted to know if I am able to do some light travelling. So should the question be changed to "Can you travel ?" instead of "Do you have kids? "
- This is usually one of the columns on the applications form you are required to fill up upon arrival at the interview venue. What the heck ? Tell me... are you hiring me or hiring my spouse ? Why do you care at all ? I am just so so very curious that I really would want to know who designed these forms and exactly what intention is behind this question. I tend to leave it blank, as I do with all those fields that I consider irrelevant such as Race, Religion etc. I am just tempted to put Religion as "Havent decided yet"
2 comments:
Uh..job hunting sucks, I totally understand. But they never asked me Qs like you had before.. you can check out the journey of my job hunt at http://whocanoffermeajob.blogspot.com/
Are you still out there? I'm job hunting and I'm older and yes, it sucks. I'm moving out of "relief" to have finally gotten the dreaded layoff (expected for 5 + years), and into depression that no one will hire me. I haven't gotten weird questions on the < 5 phone interviews, just very TEKKY questions that I'm not sure what they mean, NOR do I think THEY know what they mean.... Ah, i hope it gets better adn by now you are working.
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