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Schuh told candidates to 'moo' & put bags over heads in interview

Schuh told candidates to 'moo' & put bags over heads in interview

Footwear giant Schuh has been accused of running a ‘degrading and humiliating’ job interview process after candidates were told to put bags on their heads and make farmyard noises.

Dom Wright, 17, was invited for a two-hour long interview for a sales role at a Schuh store located in Sheffield’s Meadowhall shopping centre. Wright told The Sun that the unusual icebreaker was bizarre and had no relevance to the sales job he was supposedly being interviewed for.

The A-level student explained: “I got there and all 25 of us were given a bag and an animal we had to pretend to be. They said I had to be a cow.

“We had to make the noises until we found the other person in the room who had been given the same animal. Others were pretending to be horses and chickens. It was bizarre, really awkward. I didn’t see what it had to do with the job.”

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