During the interview, HR will ask the job seekers' parents about their work for the following reasons:
(1) Understanding the family background: Understanding the family background of job seekers is helpful for a more comprehensive understanding of job seekers, including family education and growth environment.
(2) Family education: Parents' work may affect family education, thus affecting job seekers' values, work attitude and career development.
(3) Potential impact: Parents' work may have some potential impact on job seekers, such as career orientation and work style.
(4) Career stability: Knowing the job of job seekers' parents is helpful to evaluate job seekers' career stability and life stability, so as to predict whether job seekers can work stably for a long time.
(5) Social skills: Knowing parents' work background, HR can indirectly judge the social environment in which job seekers grow up, which may have a certain impact on job seekers' social skills. For example, do job seekers have good communication skills and can adapt to different interpersonal communication scenarios?
(6) Ability to cope with stress: The nature of parents' work may have an impact on the psychological endurance of job seekers. For example, parents are engaged in high-pressure work, and job seekers may have observed and learned how to deal with stress during their growth. Such information may be of reference value for HR to evaluate whether job seekers adapt to some high-pressure working environments.
It should be noted that HR only asks parents about their work in order to better understand job seekers, which does not mean that it will directly affect the employment results of job seekers. During the interview, job seekers should be confident, answer questions honestly and naturally, and show their own advantages and characteristics.
Finally, please rest assured that HR's questions about parents' work during the interview are not personal, but want to know the job seekers more comprehensively. As long as you show a professional, confident and honest image, I believe you will stand out in the interview. I wish you a successful interview and find a satisfactory job as soon as possible!