I recently had an interview for a job working with vulnerable people. I have some experience in this area.
The interview wasn't going well in that they seemed to be concerned that I didn't have enough of the right type of experience even though they had decided to interview me. They kept asking me to give examples of dealing with challenging and threatening behaviour which I was able to give but each time they seemed to think my examples were not extreme enough and pushed for more and more.
So I am thinking that this is not going too well and I am not going to get the job when the guy chairing said to me 'you're a nice girl, with a nice address, how are you going to deal with xyz situation?' I felt as though he was making an assumption that I would be unable to do the job based on my appearance and address rather than on my skills or experience. A comment was also made about how I would feel training people older than me so I feel again that they had made an unfair judgement about me being too young (I have been a trainer).
Part of me wants to chalk it up to experience but another part of me feels I should at least tell them I think that line of questioning was not appropriate. Would you bother?
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Should I complain about my treatment at interview
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Rotter · 10/10/2012 17:10
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