Prepare for interview questions, but you can only anticipate so much.
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Being interviewed for a job is a thrilling experience. The first time I’ve had my chest is heavily pounding. You don’t know what questions the interviewer will ask you, and the strenuous task for you is to casually answer, as if in a normal conversation.
The ones I’ve had in the past are traditionalists. They started with asking me to describe myself, strength and weakness and the rest of those rehearsed questions. What is interesting then is to throw you a question that ought to be asked in a talk show.
I’m talking about the Oddball Interview Questions I’ve read from Yahoo! Apparently, interviewers ask questions like who would play you in a movie, which I find firm interest. For fun, I’d want to answer them, but they do not necessarily mean they are good responses in an interview.
Who would play you in a movie?
– Easy, Ryan Reynolds because I’m as buff. HAHA fine, I want Johnny Depp. He’s just incredible in so much roles he had. Viewers believed he’s a pirate, vampire, barber, tea party organizer and many more of his roles. I want his craft to liven up the role of me.
If you were an animal, which one you’d be?
– If I were an animal, I would be a Gull. I want the privelege to invade three territories – wander in land, drift in air and dive in the sea. I’ll have so many friends then so when I have an enemy, it’s easy to track him down. Plus, I’ll experience so much from the world.
What superhero powers you would want to possess?
– I want to read minds. I mean, some powers are attainable now by most people. You can fly via airplane, gulp gasoline and breath fire, or be invisible by not talking. But with cutting edge technology of today’s, no one can read exactly what’s on the person’s mind. That’ll be cool. I could read thoughts all day.
If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out?
– If it’s on, I’m dead obviously so it has to be off. It seemed to be impossible to climb since it’s glass and you’ll just slide back. But I have one that’s so gruesome, yet clever. I’ll shit all over, and use it to spell H-E-L-P on the glass so giant people could recognize.
How you would survive on a desert island for 30 days?
– Do I have an iPhone? No? Because I could ask Siri to bring my chopper then. Kidding aside, I will need water at least to survive 30 days. If there’s zero reserves, I’ll improvise a boat. If there’s no material other than sand, then I’ll swim away. There’s no way you could survive 30 days in pure desert, so I’ll take the risk.
What you would do if you inherited a pizzeria
– This is a no-brainer. I’ll run it. But I think employers will be looking for resourcefulness here so I’ll increase word of mouth marketing by having free pizza party every Friday.
What are your answers?
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Brilliant … and fun! Glad I’m too old for this carry on – when it’s about looking for a job, but I will answer the questions.
Who I want to play in a move: Greta Garbo – only because of her beauty.
What animal I should be: a star fish if that counts as an animal. Love the ocean, but lazy – so I just want to excite.
Superhero power: X-ray.
Me in the blender: I would stay there and go on the spin every day.
How to survive on a desert island in 30 days; water or I make sure I will not end up on an island like that.
If I inherited a pizzeria: Sell it !!! – finished with cooking for masses.
Really feel sorry, for those that have to go on job interviews – when I was young we got every job we applied to – late 60ties. It a rough and tough process today and also silly as this post has proven. Great post by the way.
Tell me about it! Today’s competition is intense. Interview is just one aspect; application begins with resume screening, then background checks, examination, and medical tests.
Hold on, why x-ray? HAHA I’m intrigued. you want to see people’s lungs and bones? =))
who would play me in a movie? Julia Roberts, what animal would I be? a wolf, the super hero power? Being able to fly, Stuck in a blender? well the size of the pencil is a partial give away, the average new pencil is about 7.5 inches, I’m not sure how deep a blender is, but I’m betting you could almost jump the edge and then pull yourself out, survive on a desert island? if there is water and anything consumable (plants, fruits, etc.) I’m going to enjoy the vacation, inherit a pizzeria? Well, I’ll be running it, and won’t need this job I’m interviewing for 🙂
You’re smart. I overlooked the blender question, and you’re right – a pencil’s size is enough for you to jump off it. And funny answer in pizzeria, although I don’t think that’ll yield a good impression for you as an applicant haha
Wild Crazy! Blenderfied – it may depend what it is that blender – delicious frozen chunks of strawberries – clog it every time! The spoon descends, but hay you can’t put a spoon is this wonderful smoothing ooze with at least a little taste. Wow! Chucking it up to the metal neck, holding on tight,covered in delicious ooze – a quick lick , yum, inspiration before your next question: How does it get any better than this? The spoon ascends, pink ooze of delicious love dropping from your entire being. The giant’s sizzling breath blowing again your face and hair an image flashes through your mind – that most incredible thought tingling kiss you can ever image. The a flicker of remembrance ignites over the cerebral hemispheres of your brain. Yes, a magic kiss, time tested century approved! Savoring the moment, ignited passion . . . the rest is history! How how can it get any better than that!
WOW. You’re good with words. Now I’ve got to get myself strawberry smoothie =))
Just make sure it has lots of delicious strawberry chucks, you never know how these could be in service to the larger good of universal beings!
Thank you – an honor!
The correct answer to the superhero one is, “All of them.”
Yeah, that could be an answer. But they can insist to choose just one, what would be then your top choice?
You remember that guy from Police Academy who could make all kinds of noises? Yeah. That’d be me.
I have to say… that is interesting. The answer about the blender and pencil made laugh out loud.
My answer would be, hope the big people knowck it to the ground and I would walk out. But then… we can’t live on hope, can we?
I’m glad you think that’s funny and not sick haha! Yeah we can hope for the best, but we should also do to attain what we wanted right?
As an interviewer, I wanted to ask the question: what book, person, event, article, experience etc. lead to your passion in the subject area that we are hiring in? It got nixed by the Human Resources people as potentially being biased against diverse and different groups of people. I still am baffled by that. But now I will put one of these questions on the potential list to draw attention to it, so then my others that are more interesting at finding out what drives people make it through. In an interview, you only get so much time to find that out.
Oh you’re from human resources? Will I get a job with these answers? HAHA just wondering. Thanks for stopping by!
That was a fun read.
Awesome. I’m glad it’s a worthwhile read for you =))
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This is appreciated!
Fun post.
Thank you. Good Karma for you too!
Thank you Moment Matters!
Nothing like a touch of inspiration and a spark of passion nestled into a captivating setting to meet the challenges of change and life ever after! Hay! Isn’t that were all great stories begin?
Wild Crazy! Blenderfied – it may depend what it is that blender – delicious frozen chunks of strawberries – clog it every time! The spoon descends, but hay you can’t put a spoon is this wonderful smoothing ooze with at least a little taste. Wow! Chucking it up to the metal neck, holding on tight,covered in delicious ooze – a quick lick , yum, inspiration before your next question: How does it get any better than this? The spoon ascends, pink ooze of delicious love dropping from your entire being. The giant’s sizzling breath blowing again your face and hair an image flashes through your mind – that most incredible thought tingling kiss you can ever image. The a flicker of remembrance ignites over the cerebral hemispheres of your brain. Yes, a magic kiss, time tested century approved! Savoring the moment, ignited passion . . . the rest is history! How how can it get any better than this!
Until next time . . . Let a Storyographer’s Journey Begin!
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I remember googling interview questions and found “if you could be any drug, what would you be?” (I am a pharmacist by the way) Thought that was a little weird and not sure if my answer would have told them anything useful about the type of person I am? Pharmacists don’t usually think outside the box, so this question was way more creative than I expected! Needless to say, no one ever asked me that.
Yeah that was.. odd. I’ll be Aspirin though, very versatile drug HAHA. What will you be?
Hmmm, I never really decided how I would have answered that. I guess penicillin. It was one of the first (if not THE first?) antibiotics discovered. Before it, guys were dying from war injuries due to infections, and it greatly decreased mortality. Still safe to this day and has been around for awhile!
Done! Enjoyed this blog! My answers are here…