The highly controversial coffee cup test is an employability technique lauded by Xero Australia boss Trent Innes (pictured) who says he refuses to hire anyone who doesn't offer to take their empty coffee cup back to the kitchen at the end of a job interview.
According to Trent, the coffee cup test is a good indicator of character, adding that only five to 10 per cent of interviewees have never offered to return their empty coffee cup to the kitchen (Stock image).
Trent Innes, the former managing director of Xero Australia, revealed that while hiring at the company he would test potential employees by offering them a cup of coffee in the interview.
'If you come into the office one day inside Xero, you'll see the kitchens are almost always clean and sparkling and it's very much off that concept of wash your coffee cup, but that sort of led into the interview space' said Trent.
Interview expert Victoria Gates (pictured) sees the entire process as 'weird', and called on employers to harness methods that measured work-related experience.
