In the workplace, it isn’t uncommon for internal job opportunities to crop up from time to time, whether this is for a position in a different department or to temporarily cover a colleague going on maternity leave for example.
Yet, in a recent post on Mumsnet, one user – writing under the name of Thickhead – explained that they had been asked to sit on the interview panel for a role that they wanted to apply for themselves.
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