Why do job interviewer play psychological games on job applicants?

I went to job interviewer but the they didn't ask me about behavior questions or technical questions.

I feel like job interview is equivalent to UN negotiation at Gaza strip. It made me angry. I want to strangle the interviewer.

how do you respond to these stupid psychological games? I feel like I am in CIA interrogation session.

Sounds rough.

Sometimes the job candidate has already been selected, and they must interview "X" number of people to satisfy EEOC or internal policy. That might have been part of it.

What kind of position were you applying for?

What were the questions? What psychological games were they playing?

How did that feel?

I just an entire post that I wrote to reply to you, Piccard. I went down to the reply section and typed about 3 paragraphs and clicked submit. THen, as always, realized it was a response to Russ, which it isn;t, of course. So I copied it, deleted the post, and planned to click on "reply" to you, then repaste it so it would be a direct reply to you.

Meanwhile, I'm in another program and I used the copy/paste feature without thinking. When I came back here, my clipboard data was gone. This truly urinates me off to no end.

Now, I'm PO'd about the software and have no desire to respond. Jeez.....

HTML SPINNER: Why can;t the "reply box" just be a general reply? Why does it have to NAME the person it replies to? I mean, by the time you read through all the posts in a thread, you're ready to reply, NOT scroll back up, click "reply" on a certain poster (usually the OP), and then reply. It truly is a pain....

I agree with Stretch. This forum feature is not the most intuitive. If you want to say just something general to everybody you can´t do that - the feature makes you to always reply to specific person. If you use Quick reply and forget that you are replying to the last user that posted something it may confuse the user and it happened here several times.

Allright, Piccard, I'll try again (though with less enthusiasm):

ALL job interviews, for ANY job, are, in essence, a psychological exam. They want to see how you respond to questions (even odd-ball questions), problems, and scenarios. They want to hear how well you speak and articulate your thoughts. They want to hear your first, gut reactions, to questions in attempt to judge your character, moral clarity, deciseveness(sp?), etc.

I've been through "oral board" interviews for hiring and job promotions, and have been an oral hiring board panel member. Scenarios can be created where there isn;t really a right or wrong answer, but rather it's a test to see and hear what you do. Adaptability, judgement, adherence to law and policy, moral clarity, imagination, and a host of other criterion are trying to be elicited during these interviews. Many times, no matter how the interviewee answers a question or responds to a situation, the panel will change the scenario....build on it.... just to see what the interviewee does.

It's not an exact science.... it's just a feeling-out process. They want to see, hear, and try to understand who they're getting (or not getting).

I imagine most people, myself included, feel very uncomfortable at a job interview. Still, you have to understand it's one of the things you just have to do if you want the job.

There are a billion reasons why the interviewer may have been pushy. Maybe he had a bad day and enjoyed his position of power, attempting to terrorize you. Maybe it was part of the game, testing how you react under fire.

Getting all worked up at a job interview is bad. Assuming you want that job (you probably do, otherwise there's no point in going to a job interview) you should think about it not as a challenge but rather as a simple conversation. It's all about getting to know each other. While the employer wants to learn more about you, take the opportunity to learn as much as you can about the job so as to avoid a possible disappointment in the future.

If they try to push you my advice would be to keep calm, don't show that you're upset (let alone angry, that's a big no-no). Stand your ground and if it gets intense, let them know you've got a pair. Who knows, maybe that's all they wanted to find out in the first place.

But in any case, DON'T get too worked up because of a job interview. You have absolutely NOTHING to lose. But you have a job to gain - if you play your cards right and if the luck is on your side.

If the interview process turned you off, just imagine what it would be like to work for these jerks.

Remember, in an interview, you are checking them out too. It sounds like they failed your interview.

Chalk it up as a waste of time and move on. What else can you do?

Good luck with your future interviews.

You might be right, Garly, maybe they're jerks - but then again, maybe they're not. Piccard didn;t give any details about the kind of job, whether it was within his fiedl of experience or expertise, etc.

Most of times the interview is less about the job than it is about the attributes of the person. The interviewers, possibly, might not have cared whether you "knew how" to do the job or whther or not you had any experience in the field. Usually, with or without experience, they want to know "what kind of person" they'd be hiring. An in-depth test (read job interview) is a good first indicator.

A job interview can be this simple:
- Are you willing to work nights and weekends?
- Do you use illegal drugs?
- Are you ready to start right now?

Easy. Some jobs could be that easy. Couldn;t those questions be asked nicely or rudely and the interview would still be easy? Oh yeah.

A job with more demands dictates a more thorugh and intensive interview. If a guy can;t handle the interview, he most probably wouldn;t handle the job for long.