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No, it's because of how they choose to respond to a tiny bit of friction.
They're the type of person who wouldn't take 2 minutes to help you with something that's not explicitly outlined in their job description.
Yeah.
Boundaries.
A completely inflexible person.
Someone who isn't willing to be taken advantage of.
Acting their wage.
Helping out your coworkers on a one-off thing is just a thing normal people do. People like you are insufferable
It depends, I know people that would be glad to help on the work but will not tolerate out of work pondering. Gaps on the résumé are sort of more of the latter, imo
You know what I do when someone casually asks me a question I don't want to answer? I keep it vague and give them a chance to pick up the hint. I don't give them a stone cold "I'm not going to answer that." like a defensive weirdo.
Feels like a lot of people in this thread don't realize an interview is a conversation. Or they just don't know how to have a conversation...
I think a more productive and empathetic approach would be to probe such a person on practical job-relevant hypotheticals of a similar nature, in order to actually get an idea of how they would handle those situations - if that's really what you're worried about. Why be so quick to label people negatively based solely on personal boundaries? Do you think it's better to skirt one's way around an issue than to address it?
Because time is limited and they're not the only candidate.
Literally nothing to do with them HAVING boundaries. Why are so many replies acting like I'm not talking about their attitude? Replace the question with anything the interviewer doesn't have the right to know.
"I see you've mostly worked in [other state], what brought you out here? Certainly not the weather, haha"
"I am not required to disclose my whereabouts or reason for travel outside of my work hours"
Sounds like a person I'd want on my team for sure.
That sounds to me like someone who doesn't want to be stepped all over in the name of having a career, and it also sounds like you're impatiently skipping over people while also paradoxically expecting to understand everything about who they are from a singular and very limited interaction.
During a job interview, you evidently see people as an abstract mesh of characteristics that you believe you can deduce their entire identity from, and similarly they mostly see you as a mere abstract mechanism of the company. I'm sure that such a candidate would be happy to answer more personal questions over a stress-free cup of coffee, feeling like they're chatting with a person instead of having to win over a corporate proxy.
I don't think anyone goes to a job interview expecting to be applying for friendship with the interviewer, but to have their relevant skills evaluated first and foremost. It's perfectly normal to find anything else extremely weird and needlessly intrusive and to reserve one's right to privacy and go look for another, saner workplace.
It's just about the same issue as with chat control. You also haven't addressed my other points, so I assume that what you actually value in the workforce is half-truths and facades.
I am not required to disclose my opinion on the last question of your previous comment. Please move on to the next question and do not use this robotic refusal as a clue to my character.
Annoying, right?
It's your rightful choice, and it leaves me with my assumptions, but I just ask that you remember that this is still a casual conversation that we're having, and that I have no ulterior motives, and that my questions were on topic and driven by genuine curiosity in your way of thinking instead of a need to tick boxes. I don't know any side of you other than the one you're currently showing me; however, I understand that it most likely does not reflect the better part who you really are.
The point is that there's a dozen other ways to say you're not sharing without sounding like you're guilty and talking to a cop. If they can't feign a bit of positively for an interview, I don't want to know what they're like on a Monday.
Its a conversation that determines whether you can collect enough credits to have food and shelter. Defensiveness seems like a natural reaction, no?
I mean if you put it that way.... No? Why would your natural reaction be to sabotage yourself?
Are you this honest when they ask what your greatest weakness is?