Esteemed legal publisher Chambers has been criticised by job candidates for asking them deeply personal questions at interviews.
Reviews have appeared on interview site glassdoor.com accusing the company of "inappropriate" quizzing which made jobseekers feel "uncomfortable". One says the "boss of the company" asked "intrusive" questions including "How old are you? Are you married? If not, then do you have a partner? Why not?"
Another claims they were simply asked "why are you single?" And a third says the HR interviewer required them "to answer about 100 rather strange Yes-or-No questions such as ‘Do you have any sexual dreams?’"
It is not clear why Chambers needs to know what its potential employees get up to while they sleep, although the correct answer is of course "I dream of innovative new ways to flog crappy plaques to law firms".
A spokesman for Chambers told RollOnFriday that the HR director had recently left and the replacement was conducting a full review of HR processes. "We never ask people about sexual dreams" he added (although that didn't stop RollOnFriday from providing him with a full and detailed update).
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Reviews have appeared on interview site glassdoor.com accusing the company of "inappropriate" quizzing which made jobseekers feel "uncomfortable". One says the "boss of the company" asked "intrusive" questions including "How old are you? Are you married? If not, then do you have a partner? Why not?"
Another claims they were simply asked "why are you single?" And a third says the HR interviewer required them "to answer about 100 rather strange Yes-or-No questions such as ‘Do you have any sexual dreams?’"
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It is not clear why Chambers needs to know what its potential employees get up to while they sleep, although the correct answer is of course "I dream of innovative new ways to flog crappy plaques to law firms".
A spokesman for Chambers told RollOnFriday that the HR director had recently left and the replacement was conducting a full review of HR processes. "We never ask people about sexual dreams" he added (although that didn't stop RollOnFriday from providing him with a full and detailed update).
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Easiest way to separate the weak from the chavs. Or wheat from chaff. Whatevs.
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After two years of working there Michael Chambers made reference to the colour test I took in my interview during a review. A little disheartening to think that two years and a promotion after starting that was still the kind of thing I was being judged on...
One day someone will have proof enough to submit the story of what Michael Chambers does on discovering one of his employee's father is a baker.