Clean your cup … Here’s something to think about the next time you have a job interview. Trent Innes, a former managing director for Xero Australia, revealed in a recent business podcast that he would use a “coffee cup test” to weed out job candidates. Innes claims he wouldn't hire anyone who failed his “coffee cup test” and believes it reveals more about the person than any other interview question. The test? What you do with your coffee cup.
"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,” he said of his interview process. "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 coffee cup.'"