Saturday, 7 June 2008
Crazy interview questions
| When you are hiring a new employee you want to find out if the person will be a great match for your role. You want to discover a bit more about them as a person and how they generally operate under both normal and stressful situations. Let's be honest - you would dearly love to find out if they are stalkers, likely to rob your company or create a lawsuit by their bizarre behaviour towards clients ... but you can't generally ask those sort of questions. That's why I loved this article in the Indianapolos star. It talked about weird interview questions and here are some of my favourites:
If you are going to ask questions, ask ones that are based on experience that transfers to your job. "Tell me about the best team you worked for and what made them a great team", "describe the qualities of your favourite boss you have worked for", "how would we know you are under stress" are more likely to get sensible answers than the fruit question. Have a great weekend! From running horse Ingrid Heart Harmony Putting your business into words Labels: recruitment, recruitment questions |
I recently had a client who informed me that she was asked, "Are you the type of person who plans on seeing the SATC movie? And if so, which character are you most like?"
I give her credit for her response, "I'll wait until it is on Netflix." Ha!
Inappropriate questions seem to be more common then we realize.