Interview Puzzle

[toomuch]

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I really don't know the answer to this one. But I can tell you what I chose later on.

In the interview room, there was two 2-seat couches on two adjacent sides of a rectangular coffee table. The other two adjacent sides had one chair on the short side and two chairs on the long side. When sitting in the chairs, you are obviously higher than the those sitting on the couches. The interviewers tell you to sit where ever you like in the room while you wait for them to come in. There are only two interviewrs. Where would you choose to sit and why?

 

[Chrisobean]

couch on the short side of the table, seat adjacent to the chair... so you dont have to turn your neck so much to look at everyone and i think it would be weird to look down at your interviewer from the chair.

do i win a prize?? 😕

 

[Herpeto]

Definitely in the single chair at the end of the table. Not only are you then in what is considered a head or power position, but you are above the interviewers. I am comfortable in a lead position and enjoy challenges.

Although, sitting in one of the two chairs on the long side would demonstrate your ability to take a power position while also showing a willingness to share the power.

Herp

 

[CoverMe]

As part of a psychological interview/ testing for a job (police officer), I've had psychologists do this to me too. My options were a higher yet more uncomfortable chair, and a lower squishy comfortable chair.

Basically, I don't think it mattered to him, as long as I could come up with a good explanation. (I was wearing a skirt, and didn't think I could gracefully exit the bean-baggish chair... which is exactly what I told him).

I wouldn't sit at the "head of the table" (single arm chair side) any more than I would automatically sit at the head of the table if i were invited to dine at someone else's house. By taking the side with two armchairs, you may find yourself sitting VERY close to the second interviewer and making the statement that you are "equals."

I'd probaby place myself on the couch, where I could very easily angle myself to talk to either of the interviewers....

unless, of course, it was a hunter green couch, and then all bets are off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[toomuch]

I'll add this to the scenario that I was put in.
The chair on the short side of the table was the closest seat to the door and the couch on the opposite of this chair was in front of the window, facing the entrance to the door.

 

[Adapt]

I would sit on the ground.

 

[Integra96]

What was the thread count of the fabric of the furthest northwest 2-seater couch? That's the key right there...

 

[Herpeto]

Even better, you get an outside view by sitting at the chair on the short side. However, you won't be able to make eye contact with your interviewers as they enter. Therefore, I would peruse around the room looking for interesting items or look out the window.

 

[Jonathanamine]

what if you rearranged them how you wanted? ya know---a little martha stewart. shows you take charge, and change things that need to be changed.

i heard a story of a famous exec for a business that would take all candidates out on a lunch interview. the only way you could pass the lunch interview was if you did NOT put pepper or salt on your food. he was looking specifically for someone who tried things out first before making a bunch of changes.
wierd huh

 

[AlternateSome1]

I would strip down, and sprawl out on the couch in a position that shows how OPEN and WILLING I am to go to their school.

~AS1~

 

[allmightylong]

oooohhh, i love these psychological bs.

I would lounge on the couch in the seat closest to the door while i wait and when the interviewers arrives I would get up and greet them, then sorta direct them(since i'm taking up the space between the couch and the table) to the two chairs on the long side while i take the chair on the short side and sit as far away from the closest interviewer as I can to establish more face to face interview instead of looking into thier earholes.

this way i can immediately establish eye contacts at a closer range and not have to turn around had i taken the chair on the short end..

😛