Taking cakes to job interview

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My lovely friend had a job interview last week. Very large organisation, likely to be a strongly structured interview. I asked her how it went and she said well, and that she had baked a cake and taken it along to the interview.

AIBU to think that this has more likely hindered rather than helped her application?

Is this ever a done thing?

Someone on the first page said that she had been an interviewer last week and a candidate brought a cake in for some reason no one seemed to pick up on this post?!

I think it's brilliant! I used to sit on interview panels a lot. It honestly would have tickled me, made me remember the candidate and I'd have loved it cos interviewing is dull, hungry work!

Thank you OP
Please ask your mate why she did that...

When does she get to know if she got the job?

Imallshookup

So it's the same person?

Has she got the tupperware back, or is she going to have to ask for it to be returned / arrange when she can pop by to pick it up?

It was peach green..... Hmm..

toffee she'll know when they send her a chocolate eclair with "you're hired" iced on it

Well it takes one to know one, potato!

Just a thought, was Alan Sugar on the interview panel?

people are very childish round cake. Maybe it helped.

It's a 'love me' plea. I would find it a bit weird and needy and if I were interviewing and probably wouldn't eat it.

I might need to visit a&e, my toenails are imbedded in my feet grin

Wrong thread by any chance?

I think the phrase is 'toe curling ' squishee

I'd take cake in on my first day. But not to an interview.

Unless it contained large quantities of drugs so I could get them high, videotape them and then force them to give me a really good job

Lol at whomoved

Quirky, and memorable, but unlikely to affect my choice. In local government, we recruit against specific criteria and score how they met them. Hard to see where this would fit in...

Thanks OP, I normally get bored after page one of a thread but this is just ace, I've read it all and even burnt two pieces of toast I was that hooked!
Hope your friend gets the job bless her, I've got to do some personality tests for a job application, I'd rather them ask us to bake a cake I think!!!!

I'm calling total bullshit on anyone who says it would go in the bin in their work

Reading the replies some people are almost persuading me that it's a good idea;

Then I imagine walking up to the HR reception carrying a Tupperware box with a cake and announcing I was there for an interview and I just don't think I could do if (knowing what potential colleagues are saying about me once I've gone into the interview)

Oh hell NO! My DP would probably give her his job though.

I just can't get over the fact that not was there cake but there was also an accompanying note

Re notes, I once worked for a small company, and an applicant wrote their application letter on the back of a rejection letter from another job!!!

Even though not very professional and I wouldn't do it myself...she sounds very lovely lol this has really made me smile!

I know a nurse who took cakes to an interview. She was told in her feedback that the panel agreed it felt like an attempt at bribery, was unprofessional, and made it very difficult for them to consider her the preferred candidate.