It’s very easy to do awful things and publish them to the internet for the world to see. Here’s a collection of recruitment faux pas and failings collected from around the internet. Don’t read if you’re of a nervous disposition and try not to have nightmares…
IT Support with an escalation point to God?
"Must be of active Christian faith"
Free labour and interview process?
"...the unexspected part was finding out this app got released to the public"
Junior must previously have been a Senior?
You'll be a millionaire, just build my app for me. For free.
I am a disabled veteran of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870...
We will only tell you the salary if you accept the job... ???
This escalated quickly...
No littering!
WeWork hard to ensure that everything you do is ours...all ours!! MWA HA HA HA AH
Muffin Break looking forward to all those future sales...
Unpaid Personal Assistant for a charity... the Charity is The Campaign Against Slavery...
When Templates Attack!
...but...I'm the hiring manager?
When the interview goes so badly they send you an invoice for their time...
"We've got to go back Marty!"
You get an unpaid internship, and you get an unpaid internship...
Why not just get them to write the whole magazine?
Just pop on a wig mate... no need to consider you moral compass which is in the toilet...
I bet he said "KAPOW" as he wrote this...
Brogrammer level 5000
From someone who has obviously been hurt before... how can they walk carrying all that baggage?
I'm sorry who can apply???
...now tell me what your grandparents did... and your great-grandparents?
No old people. No Smokers. No fat people.
"No Arabs, Middle Asians (sic), or Muslims" ?
Hustleporn.
We will throw your food away.
It's not just terrible recruiters, here's a terrible candidate.
No getting ill!
"Like Stephen Hawking crossed with Jay Leno" There's just too much here...
Female colleagues as a perk... just beneath "Cadbury eclairs"
When your weird pickup artist "negging" template backfires and you say you've never heard of Google...
Candidates must have a "grateful attitude" and OCD...
...and submit a video...
"So what does the role entail?"
"You know... some stuff"
A part-time role of thirty seven and a half hours a week....
This makes me feel so special and unique!
"No extremely long nails, huge earrings , really high hair weaves, unusual outfits, burping or chomping..."
When the Recruiter has way to much coffee before writing the job spec...
Anglo-Saxon??
Vikings, Picts and Celts need not apply then...
Potentially the worst one...BOOM! Nazis out of no where!
...will there be rats though? There will! PERFECT!
PA "with benefits"? Jeez
"Preferably Caucasian"...