Goodlife's quirky recruitment policy surprises applicant
LONDON, ONT. — Applying for a job as an IT business analyst at Goodlife Fitness in London, Ont., Roberta Clifford was surprised she was expected to do a workout.
“I nearly choked… There’s no way you’re going to get someone’s best in an interview when they know they have to work out with a senior member of the company, a total stranger, right after,” said Clifford, according to CBC News.
Goodlife has asked jobseekers to do a 20-minute workout for the past 15 years, and nobody has complained until now, according to Sarah Moore, Goodlife’s director of talent acquisition.
“Where some companies might take a candidate out for coffee... we use the workout as an opportunity to introduce our potential candidates to our core business of fitness and to have a conversation outside of the formal interview process.”
