Have you ever been offered a coffee at a job interview?
Well, it could be a test by your potential employer.
Job interviews are essentially one party convincing another that they are the perfect person for the company.
But could the future employer be setting traps for the other party to navigate or fall through that will let them know if this interviewee is a great future recruit?
This employer thinks he has the perfect trap - the ' coffee cup trick '.
The Mirror reports that Trent Innes of software firm Zero Australia uses the trick in every single interview.
Whenever someone comes in for an interview, Trent will take them on a walk deliberately past the kitchen and make sure they come away with a hot drink.
After the interview is all done, Trent watches to see if the person offers or attempts to take the empty coffee/tea cup back to the kitchen.
It's an easy way to find out how selfless someone is. If they just leave their cup at the table and leave, they won’t get the job.
Speaking on a podcast, Trent Innes said: "If you do come in and have an interview, as soon as you come in and you do meet me, I will always take you for a walk down to one of our kitchens and somehow you always end up walking away with a drink.
"Then we take that back, have our interview, and one of the things I’m always looking for at the end of the interview is, does the person doing the interview want to take that empty cup back to the kitchen?
"You can develop skills, you can gain knowledge and experience but it really does come down to attitude, and the attitude that we talk a lot about is the concept of 'wash your own coffee cup'."
So, do the washing up!
