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One of the fun parts of recruitment is working with different people day in and day out. The fun thing about people is that everyone has their own quirks, and we are all weird in our own way. I decided to speak to the office to lift the lid on some of the funnier incidents that we have had as part of our jobs…Enjoy

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The man who referenced himself

I was taking a reference on a consultant we were talking to for a role, when speaking to the reference I thought that they sounded very similar to the candidate in question – almost as if it was the same person putting on an English gentleman voice. The reference wasn’t just good it was outstanding…he spoke in glowing terms of his personality, skills and all-round good bloke “he is probably the greatest person on earth”. I was suspicious so I called the name of the references had been given as a reference direct at the office and asked if we just spoke?! We hadn’t so my suspicions were as good as confirmed.

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Waxing lyrical

During an interview the person we were interviewing had his video on but couldn't work out how to turn the volume up and couldn't hear us, so he put the phone up to his ear the whole time with his camera on!!! We had to have a conversation with a rather hairy earhole...lovely

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Here kitty kitty

Again on the Teams related mishaps we were conducting an interview for a senior project management role, the person in question accidentally had the cat ears filter on. It was decided not to say anything as it was so hilarious. Puuuurfect first impression

Raining cats, dogs and poos

I was being teams interviewed a few years ago by a panel of very important people for a very grown-up job at a terribly serious accounting firm.  I thought it was all going well despite the noise of torrential rain outside when, suddenly, my teenage son burst into the room to announce, very excitedly and very LOUDLY, “The house is going to flood and there’s poo floating in the water!!”.  Somewhat rattled, I politely interrupted the interview, peered outside and clarified that the house wasn’t YET flooding and there was nothing nasty floating around that I could see but I asked if it might it be possible to carry on the interview at a later time. The very important partner of the firm was not amused and the interview ended, never to be resumed.  I didn’t get the job. The house didn’t flood (although it was mighty close) and I didn’t find any nastiness outside although there is one patch of my front garden which has flourished mysteriously ever since.

Keep your trousers on

Our client called with feedback for an interview they had with the candidate (in the early COVID days), when interviewing on Teams our candidate’s laptop slipped and the client saw his bottom half of his body under the desk, normally it wouldn’t be an issue until followed by the fatal words…… “Ummm...he wasn’t wear trousers”

Kebab shop capers

We interviewed an “IT Manager” who applied for a role I was working on. He turned up with a singlet on, laying in his bed with Kebab all over his chest (felt really chat roulette like). Under very light probing questions he admitted he wasn’t an IT manager but managed a kebab shop below his apartment and lied on his CV & LinkedIn for the last few years but thought he would give it a red hot crack.

The dad who rose again

We had one person who said they were not going to start a role they had signed a contract for as their dad had died…obviously very sad… however I did have a case of DeJa’Vu and when inspecting the notes the persons dad had died twice before!

**Based on true events, some character names have been changed and any resemblance to real life stores is purely coincidental**​