Weird Job Interview Questions
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Isn't that question illegal to be asked in a job interview? I remember being in reemployment and they said questions about gender, age, sexual preference, and like if you have aids is illegal.Jayemsal said:
Funny enough, ive only had the 'What animal would you be'.
The best thing is I like -many- types of psychology, including industrial organizational psychology (i.e. workplace psychology)(Including less than a semester left on my bachelors). Most of these questions actually have reasons that they are there, but they coincide with other questions in the interviews.
Most of the time people like things because of social learning. Liking certain films may correlate to a certain personality, which would be beneficial to the employer. It may not always be right, but it can be right -alot-. Oh, and correlation does matter, sorry people who want to say correlation does not equal causation. In Psychology, correlation is still very important.
So yeah, kinda weird, but helpful alot of the time.
EDIT: Also, to add to some posters, yes, these questions are worth the money that corporations put into it. The amount of money it takes to train someone, then lose them, is alot more than getting these interview questions that -work- and hire the right people.
Believe it or not, peoples personalities do fit in with jobs, and the better a personality someone has to a job, the more likely they will be more productive than others.
These questions are -worth- the money, no question.
The best thing is I like -many- types of psychology, including industrial organizational psychology (i.e. workplace psychology)(Including less than a semester left on my bachelors). Most of these questions actually have reasons that they are there, but they coincide with other questions in the interviews.
Most of the time people like things because of social learning. Liking certain films may correlate to a certain personality, which would be beneficial to the employer. It may not always be right, but it can be right -alot-. Oh, and correlation does matter, sorry people who want to say correlation does not equal causation. In Psychology, correlation is still very important.
So yeah, kinda weird, but helpful alot of the time.
EDIT: Also, to add to some posters, yes, these questions are worth the money that corporations put into it. The amount of money it takes to train someone, then lose them, is alot more than getting these interview questions that -work- and hire the right people.
Believe it or not, peoples personalities do fit in with jobs, and the better a personality someone has to a job, the more likely they will be more productive than others.
These questions are -worth- the money, no question.
Ha, now that specific question is actually out of my knowledge. There may be a chance that I could find a study showing the answer, but most likely that company may of been consulted by an I/O firm that found that a fitting question.Vault101 said:
Many of those firms may keep research to themselves to, because their business is less research orientated, and more profit orientated, since they are in a corporate area.
Also, for once, I dont feel like searching for that study through the search engines. Im to fully of joy juice
EDIT: I will say, the pre-op post-op thing, totally against he law by EEOC standards though.
I haven't been to an interview in about ten years, but here are some questions that seemed unusual to me...
Appearance:
"Do you have any tattoos?"
"Would you be prepared to shorten your hair?"
"Will you shave?"
(Employer's explanation: employees must aid in upkeeping "wholeseome" image; whatever wholesome is supposed to mean. Nice derogatory social comments you're making there.)
Other:
"Have you ever taken a sick day because you were fed up?"
"Do you hobby outdoors?"
"When you don't have to get up, until what time do you lie in?"
(Can they even ask the first one? And what do the last two matter?)
Appearance:
"Do you have any tattoos?"
"Would you be prepared to shorten your hair?"
"Will you shave?"
(Employer's explanation: employees must aid in upkeeping "wholeseome" image; whatever wholesome is supposed to mean. Nice derogatory social comments you're making there.)
Other:
"Have you ever taken a sick day because you were fed up?"
"Do you hobby outdoors?"
"When you don't have to get up, until what time do you lie in?"
(Can they even ask the first one? And what do the last two matter?)
The Disney question itself seems kinda pointless but harmless. Its not exactly over-stepping the boundaries of personal privacy.
Having said that, to have "correct answers" is insanity. I'm not having a go at your friend or anything but considering that is a NORMAL question for them to use in all their interviews - they could be turning away the most qualified person for a job by miles on the basis that they liked The Little Mermaid more than The Lion King. So I don't think its weird or wonderful - I think it's an interview question designed by a six year old.
Having said that, to have "correct answers" is insanity. I'm not having a go at your friend or anything but considering that is a NORMAL question for them to use in all their interviews - they could be turning away the most qualified person for a job by miles on the basis that they liked The Little Mermaid more than The Lion King. So I don't think its weird or wonderful - I think it's an interview question designed by a six year old.
Strangest one that i had was "64S on a CB?" i guess it was some test of logic because the answer was squares on a chessboard, i totally flunked it and "64 Sadists on a Cucumber Boat" which made the guy laugh. I got the job though, so i guess it was a no big deal question.
Tangled, Aladdin and Atlantis (someone has to like it!)
Tangled, Aladdin and Atlantis (someone has to like it!)
When applying for a student job at the university that I attended, I was interviewed by committee, and at the very end of the interview, I was asked, "If you could be any kind of fruit or vegetable, what would you be and why?"
It took me a moment, but I answered, "A pomegranite, because although they aren't necessarily special looking on the outside, they're quite intricate once you get beneath the surface." I ended up getting the job, so I supposed this constituted a correct answer, but judging by my coworkers at the job, I'm pretty sure that they hired anyone who didn't make some kind of phallic joke as an answer.
It took me a moment, but I answered, "A pomegranite, because although they aren't necessarily special looking on the outside, they're quite intricate once you get beneath the surface." I ended up getting the job, so I supposed this constituted a correct answer, but judging by my coworkers at the job, I'm pretty sure that they hired anyone who didn't make some kind of phallic joke as an answer.
The "first one" of the others is actually the only one I'd consider relevant to an employer among those. Of course, employers being of all kinds, some would react positively to that and some negatively, and it's a good thing if an employer understands that asking for a day off when you're overworked is the sensible thing to do, even if you're healthy otherwise.Candidus said:
As for the appearance ones, yeh, some employers do require that kind of stuff, it's a bit like an extended dress code. Depends entirely on where you work, but I guess that they don't want you "standing out" if you're working with people. It makes sense sometimes, I suppose. Can't comment on specific situations, of course.
"beyond retarded".... welcome to the world of job seeking.an annoyed writer said:
Jon interviews have certain questions to see how well you "fit" into the company. This can include asking, "what is your favorite TV show", "if you could be a cartoon character who would you be?"
I was asked once about, "what dinosaur would I be?" I answered: Velociraptor, because they can work in a team and adapt to new challenges such as door opening. So. got. the. job.
You talk to me like I've never had to work to find a job before. In reality, I've gone through several jobs, and I think that some of these questions are rather dumb, like the aforementioned Disney one due to the answering criteria. For example, my favorite Disney movies probably aren't on that list, and if that was a requirement to answer one of the "valid" solutions for a completely unrelated job, it is veritably beyond retarded because you're denying a perfectly applicable worker a job for an unrelated reason. It's like requiring a job applicant for a library to have gone skydiving before: does that make any goddamn sense to you?bluepilot said:
Having that Disney question as a serious question that may get you the job seen odd to me (unless it was toy/ kid related job).
I don't really see the purpose of it to the job other then having having all the employese agreeing/ one sided/ sheep in a discussion as oppose to simply to respect another opinion or having someone with opposing taste.
What, they didn't want to say "OMG how can The Lion King not in your top three?" to the new worker when asked about it?
I don't really see the purpose of it to the job other then having having all the employese agreeing/ one sided/ sheep in a discussion as oppose to simply to respect another opinion or having someone with opposing taste.
What, they didn't want to say "OMG how can The Lion King not in your top three?" to the new worker when asked about it?
I was asked this and I like to continue the tradition. May be a bit crude, but in the environments I work in it's good to go.
One hundred percent seriously, I ask them: "If you were fucking another guy in the rear, would you give him a reach around?"
One hundred percent seriously, I ask them: "If you were fucking another guy in the rear, would you give him a reach around?"
I remember the very first job interview I had (which I didn't succeed in getting) asked the question "If you could go back in time and ask a question to anyone in history, who and what would you ask, and at what date?"
It was a group interview with multiple applicants in one room (like The Apprentice), and most others said they would speak to Jesus or the Prophet Muhammad, so I thought I would play it different and said I would go to 1984, back when Bill Gates was coding for the original Windows software, and would ask him if he really did in fact steal these ideas and some of the code behind it from IBM. The interview was for an IT job, and my answer went down well with the interviewers at least.
It was a group interview with multiple applicants in one room (like The Apprentice), and most others said they would speak to Jesus or the Prophet Muhammad, so I thought I would play it different and said I would go to 1984, back when Bill Gates was coding for the original Windows software, and would ask him if he really did in fact steal these ideas and some of the code behind it from IBM. The interview was for an IT job, and my answer went down well with the interviewers at least.