Previously, we have heard a CEO who rejects the job candidates who say they can start right away and the sly salt and pepper test that afflict the interviews for lunch.
Now there is a coffee cup test to add to the list of hoops of job seekers they need to get a job on the difficult market today.
The trick was described by an Australian boss, Trent Innes, who is the former director general of the Xeno accounting platform, and now works as growth director at SiteMinder.
Speaking on the Podcast Business “The Ventures”, Innes said that it always takes potential employees for a walk to the kitchen for a drink – and although it calls it a coffee cup test, it is not whether you take your caffeine hit in black or with sugar. You can even give up coffee for water or tea while taking the test.
This is what you do with your cup later that it keeps an eye.
“Then we resume this, have our interview, and one of the things I am still looking for at the end of the interview is: the person who makes the interview wants to bring this empty cup to the kitchen?” Innes said.
Unfortunately, those who have the right skills for work but leave their dirty cup on the premises of the interview will probably not hear the recruitment manager. Innes thinks it is a red flag that they are not the right culture suitable for the company.
“You can develop skills, you can acquire knowledge and experience, but it really comes down to attitude, and the attitude we are talking about a lot is the concept of” washing your coffee cup “”, added the boss.
Bring back your cup, the used cup or glass to the kitchen of the protruding facts that you are a team player, your attention and you care about little things.
This is not what you know, or even who you know – CEOs without accounting have stressed that success depends on attitude. Like Innes, Andy Jassy said that “embarrassing quantity of the way you do, especially in their twenties” depended on it.
“I think people would be surprised to see how much people have great attitudes,” Amazon CEO revealed. “I think that makes a big difference.”
Likewise, the CEOs of Pret and Kurt Geiger both stressed that being kind to their boss and their colleagues was one of the greatest determining factors of their success.
“You cannot teach positive attitudes, engagement and energy,” recently echoed the British CEO of Cisco Fortune.
