Interview | Are informal job interviews the way forward?

When a candidate is invited to a job interview, it is often assumed that this assessment will take place in a formal environment such as the company’s office or at the recruiter’s office.

However, increasingly recruiters and hiring managers are asking candidates to have an ‘informal chat’ before a formal interview actually takes place.

But this relaxed setting really took one jobseeker by surprise, who then took to online forum Reddit to air their confusion.

Reddit user u/thecrazy_itbreeds explained that they applied for an interview at a job fair and received an email from the recruiter the following day.