Tech boss uses a 'coffee test' to determine if job applicants are a good fit
You see, the uses for coffee are endless...
Finding a job is not an easy task. In fact, in recent times it has become even more challenging.
Even for the most experienced and qualified, it isn't something that is set in stone, where you go for an interview and are guaranteed a positive result.
Hearing about this boss' method of screening his job applicants has just made us wonder about other interviewers and how many of you would actually pass this test...
And if you choose to, you could take this as your heads up for the world of interviewing. You can thank us when you get the job...
Trent Innes, the managing director of Xero, a New Zealand-based tech company, has a very distinct method on selecting his employees. For him it's not about what you do in the interview, but what you don't do...
The hardcore part of his test, which involves coffee, is that if you fail, you are blacklisted from his company.
Innes revealed the details of his coffee test during an interview with a business podcast called, 'The Ventures'.
"I will always take you for a walk down to one of our kitchens and somehow you always end up walking away with a drink.
"Then we take that back, have our interview, and one of the things I'm always looking for at the end of the interview is, does the person doing the interview want to take that empty cup back to the kitchen?
"You can develop skills, you can gain knowledge and experience but it really does come down to attitude, and the attitude that we talk a lot about is the concept of 'wash your coffee cup'." (LadBible)
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Makes you wanna go back and rethink all the times you left your cup at a job interview, huh?
Well, we think it's too late for that, but it's actually great insight into future interviews. Not to say that you need to do just this, because not everyone will use the coffee test.
Perhaps for others it may be a paper test, regardless, it is about connecting your personality, your attitude with being someone who is a genuine team player.
Now if you don't have it in you, then don't fret, you will find the job that best suits you. Just stick to bringing your values and your experience into your job interview, and the rest, you have to leave to the interviewer.
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