Right, this is one for all you employers out there. I'd like to start a list of interview questions that every interviewee should be asked in an interview. Please feel free to add any vital Q's you feel are essential.
I'll start...
1) What do you feel is worse...
a>Coffee in the sugar
or
b>Sugar in the coffee?
This might sound like a stupid question, but anyone who paid attention in Science at school would know that sugar, being smaller than grains of coffee, sinks to the bottom of the jar/bowl, THUS NOT INFECTING EVERYONES TEA WITH *%$£ING COFFEE!!!!! A must have question in my opinion! 😠😀
Originally posted by marinakatombI thought of coffee in liquid form and got confused.
Right, this is one for all you employers out there. I'd like to start a list of interview questions that every interviewee should be asked in an interview. Please feel free to add any vital Q's you feel are essential.
I'll start...
1) What do you feel is worse...
a>Coffee in the sugar
or
b>Sugar in the coffee?
This might sound ...[text shortened]... S NOT INFECTING EVERYONES TEA WITH *%$£ING COFFEE!!!!! A must have question in my opinion! 😠😀
Originally posted by marinakatombYou could start using sugar lumps.
Right, this is one for all you employers out there. I'd like to start a list of interview questions that every interviewee should be asked in an interview. Please feel free to add any vital Q's you feel are essential.
I'll start...
1) What do you feel is worse...
a>Coffee in the sugar
or
b>Sugar in the coffee?
This might sound ...[text shortened]... S NOT INFECTING EVERYONES TEA WITH *%$£ING COFFEE!!!!! A must have question in my opinion! 😠😀
Originally posted by hopscotchWhy? Have you?
I also hate, "Have you ever been arrested?"
I love the Monty Python sketch of John Cleese interviewing Graham Chapman. He starts doing all these really wierd things and seeing the reaction. I think it would make a fantastic way of interviewing people.
Originally posted by jimmyb270you could do the whole "drunken phycologist" routine - ask him snesible questions, then read out your notes as you write them down. you answers shall be random...for instance:
Why? Have you?
I love the Monty Python sketch of John Cleese interviewing Graham Chapman. He starts doing all these really wierd things and seeing the reaction. I think it would make a fantastic way of interviewing people.
interviewer, "what is your favourite colour"
interviewee, "red"
interviewer, (whilst writing on note pad) "...may have satanic tendancies..."
and thus the interviewee gets very paranoid etc etc etc 🙂
Well, yes, ok, it does go against the rules, they aren't allowed to ask you if you've ever been arrested... but I have been asked it before. I wasn't exactly going to respond, "YOU CAN'T ASK ME THAT! THAT'S NOT ALLOWED!" because that only makes it look like you have been arrested and you're trying to hide that fact. Also, most of the time you're not in much of a position of power, you need a job, the interviewer has a lot of clout in that room, and if you kick up a fuss and complain to the authorities you probably won't get hired (the company interviewing you will make up some other reason if they have to) and you'll have no proof that they asked you that question, so you're only wasting your time. It's best just to say, "No, of course I haven't been arrested, sir." and hope for the best. Know what I mean?
Originally posted by geniusThe Python sketch is something like that:
you could do the whole "drunken phycologist" routine - ask him snesible questions, then read out your notes as you write them down. you answers shall be random...for instance:
interviewer, "what is your favourite colour"
interviewee, "red"
interviewer, (whilst writing on note pad) "...may have satanic tendancies..."
and thus the interviewee gets very paranoid etc etc etc 🙂
http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/intview.htm
Originally posted by hopscotchI would recommend that when you discuss your bad points, you say something like "I am overly organized and tend to be too much of a perfectionist".
The worst question ever is "What are your good points and bad points?" I have been interviewed many many times, and this question pops up occasionally. It's stupid. I also hate, "Have you ever been arrested?"
If it's a position that you will have to think quick and make quick decisions, you do not want to say that your a perfectionist because that may lead them to think that you may be too slow. You would be better to say something like, "I like alot of responsibility and love to solve problems, I tend to throw myself into work which causes me to neglect certain chores around the home, which upsets my wife. 🙂
If you say that you don't have any real bad points, then that will be a HUGE red flag because they will think your not in touch with reality and that your a liar that is desperate to get the job.
You sure do not want to say something like, "Its hard for me to get up in the morning and I'm always running late!". 😉