A boss has revealed the "coffee cup test" he uses when interviewing potential employees.
A job interview can be one of the most stressful experiences of your life as you aim to make the best impression possible to secure a new role. While you're busy trying to be on top of your game, employers are looking for signs of the type of person you really are.
Many employers are listening to much more than what you say in your interview and one boss thinks he has the perfect test to decide if someone is the right candidate to join their workforce. Trent Innes, the CEO of software company Compono, uses the trick in every interview and said people who fail the test would be blacklisted from future vacancies - as Mirror Online reports.
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Whenever someone comes in hoping to bag a job, Trent will take them on a walk deliberately past the kitchen and make sure they come away with a hot drink. He told business podcast The Venture: "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'."
Trent was previously the CEO of Xero Australia and he said the trick helps build a positive culture amongst his workforce.
He added: "If you come into the office one day inside Xero, you'll see the kitchens are almost always clean and sparkling and it's very much off that concept of wash your coffee cup.
"It's really just making sure that they're actually going to fit into the culture inside Xero, and really take on everything that they should be doing."
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