Recruitment

Well it seems that jobs interviews are like buses nothing happens and then they all come along at once!
I have emails and phone calls from a number of recruitment agencies and all of them want to put me forward for interview. So I am in a position in which, I can to a degree, be choosy and therefore I have rejected a couple of these opportunities, simply because I do not fancy them!
The last time I had to look for work the prospect of securing employment did not seem quite so good.
Why is this? Is it  that there is a shortage of candidates with the right skill set and experience, I suspect that this is the case. Have employers realised that a real history and long term knowledge is more useful than had previously been given credence too?
In my last search two or three years ago, my experience proved to be an obstacle, now it appears to be an advantage. An imagined change or a real one? Perhaps there is just more vacancies and as I have said in a previous blog, not enough available people of the right background to fill them?
Of course I still have to secure one of these opportunities but I am good at interviews.
I have noticed a trend in asking qualifying questions, which are so nebulous as to almost be insulting.
Give me a time when you provided great customer service?
What is your biggest regret?
What do you find the most frustrating aspect of working for some companies?
These are just three examples of questions that are designed to possibly eliminate you from the selection process but are about as useful as a one legged man at an arse kicking party!
The days of a straight forward face to face interview are long gone, its all role play and designer questions.
Frankly it is all meaningless and much of it will never be an indication of whether you are actually capable of  doing the job. It appears we have lost our capacity for normal human judgement without the added control of set techniques that some clever, highly qualified academics, have decided is the best way to assess a prospective employee.