It has nothing to do with your CV or references, with Trent
Innes opting to use a coffee cup to test prospective staff.
Trent, of accounting software firm Xero Australia, said he
always makes sure his candidates get a hot drink or glass of water when they
come in for an interview.
Speaking on The Venture Podcast with Lambros Photios, he
said: "I will always take you for a walk down to one of our kitchens and
somehow you always end up walking away with a drink.
"Then we take that back, have our interview, and one of
the things I’m always looking for at the end of the interview is, does the
person doing the interview want to take that empty cup back to the kitchen?
"You can develop skills, you can gain knowledge and
experience but it really does come down to attitude, and the attitude that we
talk a lot about is the concept of 'wash your coffee cup'."
If you do offer to take your mug back to the kitchen, Trent
will consider you for a job.
Those who don't are immediately blacklisted.
Trent continued: "If you come into the office one day
inside Xero, you’ll see the kitchens are almost always clean and sparkling and
it’s very much off that concept of wash your coffee cup.
"It’s really just making sure that they’re actually
going to fit into the culture inside Xero, and really take on everything that
they should be doing."
Is anyone else racking your brain right now, thinking about
what you did (or didn't do) in your last job interview?
Trent says the majority of people he interviews do offer to
return their cup to the kitchen.
He never makes them actually do it, he just wants to see
them offer.
So there you go folks. It's probably worth making the offer
in your next job interview - just in case someone's taking note.
(The Sun)
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