Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Islamically Qualified

Have you got any job? It's a common question nowadays. Being either a quite fresh university graduate or a skilled worker, unfortunately you are not provided with chances to dodge this crucial question.
Finding an appropriate job in the current situation of Iran is gradually becoming much more like a catastrophe than a rational competitive atmosphere in which people are to be selected according to their qualifications for a certain vocational position.
Thanks to not being entirely privatized yet, searching for job vacancies in governmental organizations is still a matter of interest. People are usually likely to choose governmental positions because these positions are far from the risks of those of private corporations.
Since the number of applicants for various careers is not necessarily equal to that of existing opportunities and usually is much larger, there has always been a bottleneck which will obviously justify a selecting mechanism (a good example can be the national entrance contest of universities in Iran, known as Konkoor).
In this case, job interview seems to be a feasible approach and here begins the Iranian part of the show.
Job interview is defined as a process in which a potential employee is evaluated by an employer for prospective employment in their company, organization or firm. In a humanitarian point of view, the interviewer is solely allowed to verify the technical qualities of the interviewee which are to satisfy the requirements of that certain job. In this process, some areas are assumed illegal or at least immoral to enter and asking questions about these areas is generally considered discriminatory. These areas usually consist of age, gender, religion, ethnic origin, marital status etc. While entering these forbidden fields has always been a controversial issue, in our country not only questioning about religion is a major step of interview process, but it itself has its own individual interview session which is generally called ideological interview. According to the statements made by some recently hired employees of a governmental organization, the following questions were commonly asked during the interview session:
1- Do you attend Friday Prayer? What were the issues addressed in the last Fridays Prayer?
2- If during saying prayer you notice that you've made a mistake in the consequences of prayer's steps, what will you do?
3- Do you know what person X did as a disciple of Imam Husein's troops during the clashes of Ashoora Battle?
4- What is your opinion about current issues of the country such as nuclear power?
These questions are samples which will just depict the dominant atmosphere of an ideological interview.
Summarily, the best candidate is the one who is equipped with better Islamic pretending features.

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