I applied online. I interviewed at Mind Above Matter (Keller, TX)
Interview
I said from the beginning that while I would work with youth, I was not comfortable doing group therapy with children. Then, during the onboarding process, when I reiterated that I would not do group therapy with children, the person onboarding me gave me a fake smile and started texting on her phone under the table—extremely unprofessional. I sensed that what I had said was somehow problematic, but nothing was said to me directly.
In addition, no schedule was given to me ahead of time about the onboarding. They just told me when to show up. They didn't provide lunch or tell me in advance that I needed to bring my own lunch, even though onboarding went through lunch hour. I had to bring up lunch, they said they would "allow" a 30-minute break for me to go get it, and I had to purchase it myself from a Mexican restaurant nearby.
After I gave them some availability for facilitating groups and went home, I received an email saying it had come to their attention that I was "no longer interested in working with adolescents" and felt it was not in either party's best interest to continue moving forward with the onboarding process.
I didn't even bother to correct them that I'd said I was fine working with adolescents, just not children, as by this point I strongly believed I'd dodged a bullet with this company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Are you open to working with adolescents and children?