Interview on George St

Last Friday I did a survey about job interview on George St with Eric. Though the weather was not very good, we had a special experience.

What we need to do is to find people on the street and ask them some simple questions about job then record the choices they make. That is really difficult because they are all strange people and we are supposed to ask them in English. Eventually we asked four people. Here are the answers.

First question is what they think is the most important thing in a work. There are four options: working time, working environment, holiday and salary. Half of them chose working environment and half chose salary. Then we asked them if they had any secret to interviewing well. Three of them answered no secret while another girl suggested me to get information first. Next question is “what is the best way to prepare for an interview”. Two people chose good mood and the other two guys chose information and attitude respectively. “Which do you think is the worst thing to do in an interview?” we asked. Two guys chose bad haircut or dress and others chose “be late” and “be too nervous to answer questions”. At the last of the interview, we showed them four strange questions and let them choose which the most difficult question is. Two of them chose “If you were a car, what car would you be” and others chose “who do you admire most, why”.

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