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Nuzzolese
08-13-2007, 11:17 AM
What are some good interview questions that would reveal a lot, or just some key things, about a personality?
Bob
08-13-2007, 11:33 AM
why do you want to exist here?
Rock
08-13-2007, 01:13 PM
What tv/movie character do you relate to the most?
alruggs
08-13-2007, 01:15 PM
"If you had to hide an elephant for a day, where would you hide it?"

Let's you know if they 1) have a sense of humor 2) how quickly they think of their feet and 3) how creative they are.
Bob
08-13-2007, 01:20 PM
"If you had to hide an elephant for a day, where would you hide it?"

Let's you know if they 1) have a sense of humor 2) how quickly they think of their feet and 3) how creative they are.

why bother hiding it, nobody's going to talk about it

5 minutes...mmm
alruggs
08-13-2007, 02:16 PM
why bother hiding it, nobody's going to talk about it

5 minutes...mmm

hired
Bob
08-13-2007, 02:17 PM
how about a raise
Nuzzolese
08-13-2007, 02:18 PM
Some of these questions make me think "I really hate being asked questions like that"

I mean that there are some questions to which it is impossible to answer with any sincerity or revealing meaning without sounding like a tool. You know those questions that just make you groan and want to say "ah fuck, I don't know!"

In one of the interviews for my current job, the department head asked me twice in the same interview where I saw myself in five years.
That's tricky. Do you answer the same way you did the first time she asked? Did she already forget my answer from earlier? If I remind her that I already answered that, does that make her look bad? I don't want to do that. Or do I say something different, which would possibly make me look indecisive?
alruggs
08-13-2007, 02:25 PM
how about a raise

done. okay if I pay you in elephant dung?
insertnamehere
08-13-2007, 02:30 PM
Once the guy giving me an interview told me I could ask him any one question about anything I wanted to. That was tricky. Does he want me to ask something about the job? Does he want to see if I have a sense of humor? What do I say?

I asked him where he was from. He had a crazy accent. He was from like Laos or something. I didn't get the job.
Bob
08-13-2007, 02:40 PM
done. okay if I pay you in elephant dung?

5 pounds a week or i walk
Nuzzolese
08-13-2007, 02:53 PM
Haha, yeah I would ask this one if I was interviewing someone.

I guess if you got asked that already last year, then the question is reset, or at least you have an overlap of four years on your hands.

If she writes down stuff for the interview, then maybe she wants to test this. Thing is, how will she expect YOU to remember what you wanted. What you wanted on that day was maybe a lot different to what you actually REALLY wanted after all, after you walked out of that interview room. You surely will have missed out on something.

If you are amazing and actually are on the way to your '5 year plan' then good for you. You can chuckle a bit and then say "well, funnily enough when you asked the last time I said this......" and then you can go into what you've been doing.

The whole question is aimed at seeing how your long term planning is and whether you have aspirations. If you have done some of these things, then you should definitely make a case of elaborating.


But, she asked me the same question twice in half an hour. I got the job, so I guess I did okay.
alruggs
08-13-2007, 10:40 PM
5 pounds a week or i walk

Done but only because you're the finest coin walker around.
ericlee
08-14-2007, 02:39 AM
If you're working gate guard duty and a car pulls up to exit and you notice that it's me, the Lt. Colonel at the driver's seat and a disgruntled inmate holding a knife to my throat demanding to let us pass through, what would you do?