Bree

I'm looking for a sample of job interview questions people have been asked over the years - decent questions that you think have allowed you, the prospective employee, to get your point across.

Thoughts?

Lycurgus

Would you be the interviewer or the interviewee?

Kinross

The typical job interview questions are a joke. They answer nothing about how you can do a job and are given by people who don't know how to interview someone.

A better way to get a job is to demonstrate how you can do the job and contribute to the bottom line.

Before the interview contact the hiring manager and tell them that you would like to demonstarte to him that you can do the job. Ask him to describe some problems that he is facing that you would be responcible for solving if hired.

This does two things, it sets you apart from the rest of the herd by thinking outside the box and shows that you are interested in doing the job not just collecting a paycheck.

Now when you go to the interview explain how you would solve those problems and how it would add to the company bottom line.

ZiprHead

My sister just interviewed with a DC for a medical biller position. When asked what salary she was seeking, she responded by saying she'd like to make the same as what she's making at the hospital system she now works for. The doctor responded, get this, "What kind of bills do you have that you would want so much?!" Wutanass!

Melkor

Just don't put "thinks outside the box" on your fricken resume, for pete's sake.

We had an idiot that used to work at my company that actually did that.

blame_the_gods

1. What is your greatest fault?

2. Have you ever been fired or forced to leave a previous job?

3. When you have conflict with your co-workers, what is your course of action?

4. Are you willing to put in long hours for low pay?

5. What personal obligations do you have that may prevent you from doing this job?

6. How do you feel about President Dumbya?

7. When given several equally important, yet totally opposing tasks - which must have been finished by yesterday... What do you do?

8. Do these pants make me look fat?

9. How often are you sick and/or too lazy to come to work?

10. Are you sure that you will be comfortable as cog in this wicked, controlling, dictatorial heirarchy of a faceless, soulless and corrupt corporate culture?

11. Will you please step into this cruelly lit room and give us a urine sample?

12. Do you find my daughter attractive?

13. Honestly, is your flatulence as bad as your references indicated?

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I better stop... I have actually used them all, he-he.

cricket

Answer: I would nap. Since I would feel "all caught up", compared to how I'm living now.

cricket

Oh sorry Bree. You were needing questions, not answers.

MJones

I'd like to answer these, just for fun!

1. My greatest fault is that I don't think I have any faults.

2. Yes. Over 10 years ago. I learned from my mistakes.

3. First, confront them in a calm and pleasant manner. If that does not work, go to their supervisor.

4. Absolutely not.

5. Wife and kids come first.

6. He's a dumbass.

7. Get everyone together who wants the tasks completed and make them work it out.

8. Yes. Yes, they do.

9. Maybe once every three or four months.

10. Long as I can do the job.

11. Thought you'd never ask. Got a cup?

12. If she'd get her teeth fixed she prolly be pretty hot.

13. Yes, but you won't notice it as long as I get a well ventilated office.

Dirty Dog

NialScorva

Anyone who talks about "thinking outside the box" doesn't, especially when prefixed by "needing to". Anyone who does "think outside the box" will never have it occur to them that they do because to them it's normal thinking. Just my experience.


I think every interview I've been to has been a second pass filter. The first pass is knowing the right words to put on the resume. That demonstrates that you've played the game of your field long enough to know what sells. The second pass is presenting yourself as someone who looks, acts, and talks like someone in your field. Neither is a direct coorelation to proficiency in the field, but are decent indicators of familiarity with the field.

Then again, I'm a software engineer, so real jobs might be different than the fantasy world I live in.