"cdb" wrote:
> :: . Communicating the company's values to prospective employees,
> :: encouraging
> :: the right kind of people to apply.
>
> Apart from the fact that I detest ' addressing selection criteria ', I
> actually haven't the faintest idea how to even begin to answer such a
> point.  'To Demonstrate' is always code in government speak to a whole
> lot of drivel showing in what circumstances you have performed the
> action stated. These also have to be answered as this is the only way
> the HR departments make their shortlists, and the fixed interview
> questions (another piece of impersonal drivel) will also touch on the
> criteria questions.

Are they actually asking you to answer this question? I thought it was just 
a part of the job description (sort of an FYI).


> The fixed questions of course which make the interview panel sound
> incompetent, are supposedly to ensure that they cannot be accused of
> unfairness and is supposed to remove the personality clash problem.

We have a list of questions for all positions we interview for. We use them 
more as a guideline/memory aid, however.


> Maybe it is just I detest people reading from a script, interview
> technique is a skill of its own, and although there will be set things
> that need to be convered, the skill comes in being human and phrasing
> questions to suit the person in front of you. To ask questions were a
> previous question has already elicited the answer is just plain
> stupid.

I agree.

Vitaliy 

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