Spoiler alert: this business is Scientology-run. The interview process consisted of a phone interview followed by two face-to-face interviews, and stretched out over two months. The business owner mentioned during the phone interview that she had had trouble hiring for the role in the past, but I didn't think anything of it at the time. In the first face-to-face interview, I was asked to complete some personality/IQ tests which I went along with, but felt were very strange and irrelevant to the role e.g. 'do you browse through railway timetables, directories, or dictionaries just for pleasure?' 'Do you often feel that people are looking at you or talking about you behind your back?' She said it was because people can say one thing about themselves in an interview and then be completely different in the role. She also said she’d been trying to hire a copywriter for two years. Alarm bells were beginning to ring. The tests were the Mastertech Personnel Potential Analysis System which I googled later and realised are Scientology tests. Apparently I passed (maybe by virtue of the fact I went along with it all and didn’t question her) because I was invited to the second interview. I decided to go along, hoping perhaps it was all an innocent mistake. This interview consisted of some more questions and some very in-depth copywriting tasks which took a few hours to complete. Only on completion of all this, did she actually reveal that the job role had changed and was now part-time instead of full-time. Apparently they’d put out ads for two different jobs but didn’t expect to fill both positions?! It all seemed very dishonest and clearly something that I could have been informed of at the start of the interview, before I committed further. My feeling was that it was never a full-time job but the £30-35k full-time salary was just used to draw in applicants. I was also asked twice if anything in my life and future plans in the next 5 years might interfere with the job. The way this question was pushed on me the second time made me suspect she was digging to see if I may have any future plans to have children! I was eventually offered the job but my hunch that some serious Scientology business was going on, was confirmed when the contract stated very clearly that the company uses Hubbard Management technology. A quick google shows that this system is purchased from WISE - the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises. I declined the job for this reason, and the employer finally confirmed she is a Scientologist but that her staff are not and the technology is very successful. I replied that I would reconsider if I was assured that I wouldn’t be pressured into joining or expected to take Scientology courses (she’d mentioned in the interview about 'training’). The response was 'you’ve made the right decision for you’ so clearly I can only conclude that it definitely would have entailed that! It’s also worth mentioning that not once in the interview process did I get to see the actual office where I’d be working, or meet the rest of the team. Both interviews were held in a meeting room which gave no indication of what the workplace would be like.