Coming Into My World

I contacted three trainers today who were coming to receive unique interview process tomorrow. I wanted to guage just how much they really knew about me and my organisation and also to use this as a training tool with the Edinburgh Academy. I was disappointed with the response I got.

The overall feeling from the trainers was that they would not expect a MD to call, you have caught me off guard. I was disappointed that they knew nothing of me, my values, or about my company. Someone I called has now backed out of the interview process. No research a skim over me, not worthy of a job with me, unless they turn this around, wonder how the rest of them will prevail. Watch this space. Only one of them took the time to contact me before their interview.

The process is that if they get past two phases they go through one of two doors, one takes them out the exit to car park the other gets them to me, but when they get to me watch out for what happens next..................................

 

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Posted by Joe Wilson on 25 November 2010

Was browsing through the site and found this post again and thought I''d give an insight from the other side of the window. I was one of the people who turned up for interview, having prepared my 10 minute presentation and mentally prepared myself (or so I thought!). I met with the other candidates - all very nice people - and started on I can honestly say what was one of the most unique interview experiences I have ever had and may ever have. It all stated off with one of the candidates giving a presentation on Salsa dancing, in which we all participated. Imagine the scene...."How did you interview go?". "Well, it started off with a Salsa lesson". Not your everyday conversation. And guess who had to follow that up? Indeed. I gave what I hoped was an engaging and interesting presentation on a model for engaging with clients. (Sounds kinda dry, but it depends on how passionate you are about it.) The other candidates gave their presentations, some very enjoyable and engaging - others less so and we moved on to a panel interview with the Training Manager and the Head of Training. I thought I''d done OK at this stage and "said all the right things" as you do. The guys had told me I''d be meeting the MD in the afternoon and gave some advice on how to approach this e.g. "Don''t take offence at anything he says." Rather disconcerting but hey.. After a lengthy wait - just enough time for the nerves to get going - I had my 1st experience of Stevie Kidd. All the rules of how to behave and how to present yourself at interview were re-written, reviewed, scrunched up, rolled into a ball and drop-kicked right out of the window. I was totally thrown. I was going to say that we spoke for over an hour but in truth I spoke for about 5 minutes and spent the rest of the time listening to this guy who was completely mesmerising. I learned afterwards that the mental state I was experiencing was "confusion hypnosis", which explained a lot really because whaen I came out of that meeting I was all over the place, mentally and emotionally. I had another 10 minutes with the Training guys to reflect on what had happened but in all honesty I spent the next week replaying the movie in my head and trying to make sense of some of the things in my own head that were going round and round. What an interview! And I had been thinking I was going for a job as a Trainer. There''s a lot more to this than I have written here, loads of things that happened after the interview but I''ll add that at a later time. I''ll finish off by saying that my introduction into the world of Stevie Kidd was profound, I''m very happy that I had the opportunity to experience this process as it gave me a better understanding of why KDS do things the way they do and I''ll be a very different person at any interview I ever attend in future.

Posted by Ian Whitehill on 16 October 2010

After going over yesterdays interview experience with KDS the penny has dropped. Its not just my job capabilities, its what makes me tick that Stevie Kidd needs to know. Hopefully he now knows more about me and likes what he sees. I certainly know a lot more about him. I appreciate his element of spontaneity/ surprise. I know I''ve got what he''s looking for, hope he does too.

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