Difficulties in attending interviews as a muslim

[ansar.tajudeen]

asalamualaikum ..

dear muslim brothers and sisters beware about wat u speak and wat u spoken about in inteviews

just i need to share my experience when i attended an interview today..

In the interview---i need to speak for a moment for that they gave me one topic "How did u enjoyed this new year"??..:embarrass

wat a difficult situation...I simply told them its not for us (AS A MUSLIM)....
For the sake of getting a job v r not to lie at any circumstances
imsad

May ALLAH Protect us from all things which harm us..
AMEEN!:cry:

Inshallah i will get good job through ALLAH's blessing,I ask u all to make DUA for me and for those as like me in this world.:D

[Muslim Woman]

:sl:

may Allah bless u with a good job , Ameen.

[aamirsaab]

:sl:
Possible answers to that question:

1) Oh I don't actually celebrate new year.

2) Slept through the whole thing really.

Seriously, that position is not at all difficult. I personally think you over-reacted. Or your description of the event was not accurate.

[ansar.tajudeen]

:sl:
Possible answers to that question:

1) Oh I don't actually celebrate new year.

2) Slept through the whole thing really.

Seriously, that position is not at all difficult. I personally think you over-reacted. Or your description of the event was not accurate.

S brother my event was not in elaborate manner here.. I just mention roughly my situation here .........

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[Omari]

Still, there are many ways, like aamir-saab said, to go around questions without neccessarily lieng.
For example if i was asked if I enjoyed this new year. I would say, for example;
Yes, i was glad to see my family that day. [very vague answer, but it's telling the truth.]

Anyway, inshalah you will get a good job should you make the effort. Pray to allah, only he gives, only he takes.

Omari

[snakelegs]

i don't celebrate xmas or new year either.
i agree with aamirsaab - you can just give a vague answer.

[Whatsthepoint]

An employer should not discriminate job applicants on grounds of religion, so muslims should not be afraid to say they do not celebrate the new years' eve beacuse they're muslims!

[جوري]

the best thing to do in an interview is to be calm and confident.. pls get this book

I think if you'd told them what you had actually done, i.e had dinner, slept early. I caught the twilight zone marathoon, prepared for such and such, whatever it is you'd actually done, it would have been better off than saying I don't celebrate because I am a muslim.. I assure you had you been a non-muslim and said I dodged my duties spent the day getting drunk would have been looked upon just as suspiciously!

:w:

[AvarAllahNoor]

asalamualaikum ..

dear muslim brothers and sisters beware about wat u speak and wat u spoken about in inteviews

just i need to share my experience when i attended an interview today..

In the interview---i need to speak for a moment for that they gave me one topic "How did u enjoyed this new year"??..:embarrass

wat a difficult situation...I simply told them its not for us (AS A MUSLIM)....

You don't enjoy the new year? :S

[ansar.tajudeen]

alhamdulilah....

these many supports from ALLAH's Servants

Jazakallahhairun

[umm julaybib]

sometimes its nice to give dawah where possible but at times like these perhaps its just better to refrain from giving a lengthy explanation, and say for example you said you don't really celebrate new years day, and the interviewee may decide to question "oh why not?'' then maybe you could've said that we as Muslims don't hold any significance to the start of the 'new year', and then your answers are acknowledged without the person you're talking to feeling uncomfortable for whatever reason.

i personally think its better for them to be curious rather than telling them without knowing whether they're really interested or not and when you say things in a way they know you're approachable you will find that curiosity and interest does develop and gives a nice opportunity for dawah :)

[qassy!]

Salam

I never knew it was haram to go out on new year ? I went to Central London to see the fireworkss went 10PM got back 4AM

is that haram?

[AvarAllahNoor]

Salam

I never knew it was haram to go out on new year ? I went to Central London to see the fireworkss went 10PM got back 4AM

Is that haram?

Would be absolutely nuts if it's said watching FIREWORKS on the NY is haraam!! :rolleyes:

*Waits for an explanation

[crayon]

Random sort of related question.

I was thinking about this the other day. I don't work yet, but when I do, I'm obviously going to have to do an interview. If the interviewer is a man, how do I go about not being alone with him in the room?

[جوري]

You are not ever 'alone' in a 'room' with one man.. that is not how interviews work!

peace

[qassy!]

Would be absolutely nuts if it's said watching FIREWORKS on the NY is haraam!! :rolleyes:

*Waits for an explanation

Why? They where wicked!

You are not ever 'alone' in a 'room' with one man.. that is not how interviews work!

peace

Well my interview was with a women and i was alone in a room with her.........didnt mean anything!

where I work now there only women dont ask dont know why! and its a mobile shop

[crayon]

Then where are interviews conducted sis?

[جوري]

It depends on your field..
usually there are two or three people interviewing you at the same time, and it is after you have taken a tour of the company or the hospital or lab etc along with fellow applicants.. the place is open and hardly a room, but judging from the last poster everyone's interviews are different..

:w:

[rabarbara2008]

yeah such questions are interesting.
once I was asked how I celebrated christmas, I just said 'just got some cards from the neighbours, nothing special' and people didn't mind this answer at all.