It’s becoming apparent that job interviews in Nigeria these days have turned into a comical display.
From Enugu State Teaching Job interview (English Language) where a
young man was asked to chronicle the history of his traditional leaders
to Lagos, where another man was asked to frog jump 50 times to test his
agility, the spate of humors job interviews produce in the country is
getting out of hand.
According to one Louisa Onah, a graduate of Enugu State University
of Science and Technology, she went for a graduate intern job interview
in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State last week.
There were about 50 people who came for the same mission but she
managed to scale through the oral question phase. When about 20 of them
were asked to wait outside for briefing, they thought their dreams have
materialized.
In her words, “We were still humming our excitements when one
of the interviewers came out and called me inside. I followed this man
with practiced gentility and curious silence. We walked down the office
hall then swerved left into his office. He offered me a seat. At first, I
refused but he smiled me into the seat.
He began by asking me my position in the family. I was stunned
by the question but I had to keep a straight face at the question. When I
answered that he drew a heavy breath and let out the thunder bolt. He
said that actually, their company is a young one and that they do not
intend to take more than one person. And being a newly birthed company,
they will place my salary at 15k a month.
As he mentioned 15k, I recalled how I bought 1.5k mb to fill
their form online; how I contacted them with my airtime and how much I
spent to transport myself from Nsukka to Portharcourt. I stood up and
left the office with a grimace without a word.”
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