Seriously?
The carp you have go through these days for a basic job is ridiculous, silly group interview then if your lucky another 1 on 1 interview.
Actually, if you get through to the 1 on 1 interview, it means you were successful. They'll be giving you a contract then. Its no different to how it was 10+ years ago.
You wouldnt believe the number of applicants they get that fail the easy peasy group selection, lots of people who can barely communucate in English, cant talk to or get along with anyone else, and are just simply outright awkward from the minute they step into the group interview. They need to weed out the people who dont even possess the most basic communication skills, and these are like 50% of the applicants.
someone with a mental disability could stack shelves or man tills easily yet fail a group interview test garunteed every time
The job doesnt simply involve stacking shelves and / or manning the tills, the main thing that all employees will be doing is talking to, communicating with and helping customers. Theres no reason why any supermarket should have to recruit people who lack basic communication skills when the top priority for any retail job is being able to work well with others and being able to communicate in a polite and friendly manner to the customers.
The group selection is very simply a communication skills exercise, if someone lacks this extremely simple ability for any reason, then unfortunately they arent suitable for the job. Asda most definitely do not discriminate based on disability, but they get plenty enough applicants that are able to communicate and speak well enough to be able to help customers in a polite manner. Why would they reqruit someone who lacks such a basic requirement of communication skills for any reason when they get stronger applicants through the group selection?
group interviews allow companies to disciminate against people with a disability which is why they are so popular these days.
Wrong. If a disabled person is capable of simple basic communication and interaction with other people, they pass the group selection. They've been using these group selections for over a decade now, if they were discriminatory in any way they would have been disallowed a long time ago.
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