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[helenl]

The faculty and staff are co-ed at both men's and women's colleges.

[heyteacha]

[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

Asked and answered...

NCTBA

[tanalien]

[veiledsentiments]

You might want to edit your post (use button on upper right of your entry) to mask your email address. They have programs out there that mine boards like this for email addresses. Perhaps say that it is tanlien at hotmail

VS

[tanalien]

[happyroofus]

That was the best post ever!!

Thank you Scrog

[secretsquirrel]

I think I've found them! The ten most commonly-used HCT interview questions, which fell into my hands many moons ago...

� What kinds of social inadequates and retards do you like working with?
� HCT likes to criticize hard and praise infrequently. How do you feel about that?
� Have you ever felt extreme anger at work? How will you cope with that at HCT?
� Do you enjoy working with cruel and compassionless people?
� This organization is probably very different to your current employer - how do you think you are going to fit in with our repressive management system?
� How do you feel about management snooping on you and reading your e-mails?
� Give an example of when you have worked with inadequate b*st*rds like us.
� What have you failed to achieve to date, and what degree of desperation drives you to us now?
� How would you feel if you got sacked because the new boss just doesn�t like you?
� We encourage staff to grass on each other. Do you think you have the makings of a good stooge for the management?

At least, they do LOOK like HCT questions.

Perhaps other HCT veterans would like to add some of their own!

[happyroofus]

@secretsquirrel

THANK YOU!!!

I had a 2 hour interview with them once. One guy at very large table and another on video-link. Half-a-glass of water was offered (though I had travelled considerable distance to get there). Honestly, I've never felt an interview to be such a waste of my own time as that HCT we-think-we-know-what-we're-talking-about-and-do-as-we-tell-you-to-do stage-show.

Looking back on it, I now look at my not getting it as a true blessing in disguise.

[ckhl]

[/i]What kinds of social inadequates and retards do you like working with?
� HCT likes to criticize hard and praise infrequently. How do you feel about that?
� Have you ever felt extreme anger at work? How will you cope with that at HCT?
� Do you enjoy working with cruel and compassionless people?
� This organization is probably very different to your current employer - how do you think you are going to fit in with our repressive management system?
� How do you feel about management snooping on you and reading your e-mails?
� Give an example of when you have worked with inadequate b*st*rds like us.
� What have you failed to achieve to date, and what degree of desperation drives you to us now?
� How would you feel if you got sacked because the new boss just doesn�t like you?
� We encourage staff to grass on each other. Do you think you have the makings of a good stooge for the management?


I couldn't have said it better than this....i managed to slip through the system for 12 years, coasting. The bone head idiot I worked for, a bastion of mediocrity, couldn't quite catch me. My student evaluations were too good and he couldn't screw me on classroom observations. I 'performed' to standard. But....it gets ugly eventually. And not too soon. From what i've read recently, getting out after a 12-year stint proved fortuitous indeed. As i said in a recent post, it was a good run financially. I made excuses not to attend the final 'lunch' when they present you with the tacky give-aways. They were left on my desk later. I duly picked them up and tossed them in a nearby dumpster the next day.

[aussielecturer]

Hi....resurrecting an old forum but I am planning to move to UAE and looking at universities/colleges to apply for a teaching position. As I am still getting my PhD, a university may not even look at my application regardless of the experience I have (4 years in industry and 3 in academia). I have seen an ad from HCT for a position suited to my experience. What can I expect during the interview procedure and is there any particular way to approach them?

[nomad soul]

[veiledsentiments]

[marierose]

[aussielecturer]