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[Humor] Job interview questions

 
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Stupid interview questions (dont move to Job discussion forum) :mrgreen:
[ September 17, 2003: Message edited by: Michael Ernest ]
 
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Hi !
Sometimes you really get stupid questions.
I remember, 5 years ago I had applied for job in the armed forces. During the interview the major sitting there asked me: "How do you fulfill your sexual desires".
I was 19 years old at that time. I had never thought I would get a question like this.I was stunned. I remained silent for around one minute (in shock !) , then gave a pretty stupid answer.
But later on friends told me that those asses in the forces usually ask such questions.
In my culture it is not common to discuss sex. I mean you never take the three letter word infront of elders. And in the interview a guy as old as my dad was asking me something I was never expecting.
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Sometimes you get stupid answers.
I had a friend, yes a friend not me, who was asked if he looked at the company website.
His answer was he tried once, but the site was down.
Obviously he did not get the job.
 
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I think that link is worthy of moving to jobs discussion
I had the "Tell me about yourself" one. That was pretty much the only question they asked, I spoke for about 10 mins "about myself" then started asked the interviewers (yup 2 of them) questions.. I was offered the job the next morning.
Where do you see yourself in five years
What are your weaknesses
Are you a team player
How would your boss/ friends / subordinates describe you
How do you feel about working overtime
Can you work under pressure and deadlines
Had all these with the job I'm in now. They came in the HR interview, (you'll never get them in a technical or line manager interview). I think they are fairly standard (dont treat them as clich�d), you need to answer them - not laugh at them.
 
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Me and my boss used to delight in asking those awful questions at interviews. We'd watch the candidate squirm and watch them fight rolling their eyes. Then we'd come clean and say we had to ask because it was in the HR manual! Making fun of these questions is a good way of getting interviewees to relax a little which in turn makes the task of interviewing a bit easier. To be honest I'm just as nervous either side of the interview process.
 
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