Bombing at interview
As candidates came in for their job interview, pranksters filmed them as the ‘window’ showed a meteor bombing into the cityscape outside[youtube id=”ynvKWYvyCqw”]
Japes-aplenty over in Chile, where electronics company LG has launched an impressive TV commercial featuring job interviewees in states of extreme distress.
First, LG created a fake office which the ‘window’ was really one of their 82-inch ‘Ultra HD’ TV screens. Then, as candidates came in for their job interview, they filmed them as the ‘window’ showed a meteor bombing into the cityscape outside and levelling the skyline.
The candidates appeared to react with various degrees of horror and disbelief – as one might if one believed one’s family had been obliterated in a freak accident.
Look closer however, and you’ll probably reach the same conclusion that we do – that all these candidates are actually actors, and not particularly good ones at that.
Never mind. This convoluted Chilean chicanery got us thinking. What other HR interventions might be improved if these ‘windows’ were widely available?
The redundancy meeting
Just as the employee is being given the bad news, the weather outside the ‘window’ improves, birds start singing and a rainbow appears on the horizon. Who wouldn’t feel better with such a cosy little vignette to gaze upon?
The Health and Safety training session
Liven up these traditionally dull meetings by demonstrating how one falling ladder can create a domino effect that results in all tall buildings within a ten-mile radius being toppled and reduced to piles of comically smouldering rubble.
The appeal for overtime
It’s summer. You need to talk the team into working late to finish a massively time-critical job. Fortunate, isn’t it, that the sun has gone in and been replaced with black rainclouds of truly biblical proportions?
The conflict resolution meeting
Your biggest adversary might become more accommodating if, out of the corner of his eye, he could out make a big military drone hovering eagerly over his house.
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