New bunch of recruits being interviewed. 4 of them
All fresh out of school, looking uncertain, filling out a 4 page questionnaire
Good luck to them in their first foray into this world
How was your first job interview?
Mine was so easy, all those years ago, 48 in total.
Living in a Mining town, the mine put on 30 apprentices every year.
Turn up, register, be accepted. Done
I think one of my references helped.It was from Sir Julian Pode ,chairman of the company.
(My mother used to be his cook)
You were lucky, sounds like you didn’t have to “Dig Deep”
All I had to do was turn up, fill out an application and I became an apprentice Fitter and Turner.
That’s the way it should be, all those years of pomp and circumstance, and bullshit bits of paper, and jumping through hoops for a two bit job, and, the folks who cashed in as consultants in the process.
Shameful!!
My dad got me a job, I think he was working somewhere and the electrician that was there mentioned he needed an apprentice, no interview just picked me up one morning shortly after my sixteenth birthday…
My first job interview was 71 years ago. How did it go? I started there the same week so I guess it went well.
Some folks were brilliant with interviews but, the subsequent weeks and months just highlighted the fact they had no work ethic. That just then put pressure on the employer to save face and salvage something from the situation 
I remember my last interview. There was no wanting to know every job I had. All they wanted was someone experienced with 10 ton overhead cranes. Easy Peasy.
Very easy to get work back in the day.
Too much bull now.
I failed my first job interview … don’t know why but my mum was glad as it was packing bullets in a small munitions factory.
Makes me sound like something from WW2 doesn’t it
Perhaps she thought you’d get fired.
That was destiny, you weren’t complicit to the death of anything 
Once I had worked for a bit in a number of different companies and met a whole range of different co-workers and bosses I realised that those first interviews are very much stacked in favour of people who had got good coaching. Idiots like myself relied on my own judgement and articulation - and a bit of prep of key things I needed to say. That tended to work okay but not exceptionally well. Then I realised that some people had an early boast from parents or others who already knew the way such interviews worked. Maybe had run interviews themselves and were able to coach kids they knew on how to perform well. Then I met a much smaller group who were bright enough to include “get coaching from someone who knows” - that is, brighter than me whose intelligence only went as far as “prepare a bit”.
Of course, my problem would have been not knowing anyone who was in a position to provide me with good coaching.
