Skype interviews are great fun – I interviewed a lady who claimed her camera wasn’t working, not to worry we will continue, her photo sent with the cv so we had an idea of what she looked like, at some point during the interview she must have clicked her camera on, and there was someone 40 years older than the photo we had sent smoking a fag.
Weird, and not employed.
My partner in crime at work and I had to interview dozens of folk via Skype, and on the odd occasion, we would mix up times, or get the time zones wrong, not all our fault.
On a Saturday evening, around 10pm, we were continuing a rather long days drinking session when we suddenly went “shit we have an interview” having already received a bollocking for missing one the previous day, we charged down to the office to carry out the interview, pouring some whisky into two coffee cups on the way down.
A fantastic interview was had, the candidate was a wonderful person, would make an excellent hire, perfect of for the job, loved to talk, etc etc.
Turned out to be an absolute nutter who left after a year.
I interviewed a lady who on asking why she wanted to work at the school told me that she didn’t really, there weren’t any other jobs going that she thought she would get.
Another simply wouldn’t answer any questions we asked, kept answering them with bizarre anecdotes totally unrelated.
Finally, I had the fresh graduate, who informed me he had turned down two NQT positions in two very good schools to return here. On asking him why he was so desperate to return here, he told me about his girlfriend out here. That made sense, how long had they lived apart – 3 years. He was prepared to work in a shitty language school to get back out here.
So why is another year going to kill you to get fully certified and find a job after that, surely that makes more sense than throwing away all this training. “I think she might have another boyfriend so I need to get back”