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But when did she tell the groom about the lie, before or after the wedding? Jen from the IT Crowd got stuck after lying on her CV about her IT skills and was offered the IT management job. Explaining later during to the interviewer "I've got a lot of experience with the computer…thing, you know e-mails…, sending e-mails, receiving e-mails, …deleting e-mails, I could go on…" 4. Using an Over Creative Video CV You need your CV or Resume to stand out from the crowd, but Barny from How I Met Your Mother took this a little to far as you see him flying airplanes, driving monster trucks and parachuting off cliffs to the soundtrack "I'm so Awesome" 5. Arriving to the Job Interview with a Cockatoo on Your Shoulder Some job hunters really don't understand the importance of the first impression, especially one guy who attended a job interview with a cockatoo on his shoulder. Robert Half completed a recent survey on outstanding interview mistakes and outrageous interview blunders 6. Wearing your PJ's to the Interview According to a recent survey of more than 670 HR managers, many job hunters don't understand the importance of wearing smart attire during the interview, with some interviewees arriving at the interview dressed in their nightwear, thankfully this was PJs and slippers and not boxer shorts and socks 7.
Don't stress about it. Your trusty gut will tell you what to do in the moment. Whichever path you take, you will hold your head high! All the best, Liz
If the person who asks you, "What's your greatest weakness? " or, "Where do you see yourself in five years? " is your future boss, you might want to think twice about taking the job. Sharp leaders are not asking scripted interview questions in 2018. If you can't stand to sit there and answer interview questions stolen from an interview script composed around 1950, you can politely stand up and leave the interview. If you're too grossed out to stay and answer the interviewer's questions and you don't care whether or not you get the job, then get up and go. Rise from your chair, extend your hand for a shake and say, "Thank you so much for chatting today, but I can see it's not a great match and I'd hate to waste another moment of your valuable time. I can let myself out. " Then flee! If you want to stick it out, here are non-grovelly ways to answer the five most obnoxious, outdated interview questions. You: For a long time I worried about my weaknesses. I read books and took courses and I learned some new things, but the biggest lesson I learned was that I need to focus on my strengths.
2) "How lucky are you and why? " Actually, not a stupid question. People who suck at life in general tend to be very, very unlucky. It's rarely their fault, but things always go wrong for them. Their bank account happens to be empty exactly when they need to fill up with gas to get to the interview, their spouse desperately needs them to stay home and deal with an emergency that day, or their alarm clock just picked that day to not work right. They go through their entire lives as innocent victims of circumstance, powerless to affect the bad karma that the universe insists on throwing at them, over and over again. I don't know about anyone else, but I would not want that person working in my department. Edit: Oh geeze, lots of these are actual useful HR and tech questions. 5) "If you were on an island and could only bring three things, what would you bring? " -- Yahoo, Search Quality Analyst interview. The article's answer: Larry Page's yacht, fueled and provisioned, a qualified crew, and a copy of Yahoo For Dummies, to read on the journey home.
Most people thinking that have never tried to run interviews to separate sysadmins from users in disguise. 12) "How does the Internet work? " -- Akamai, Director interview. And now that you've explained that and probably drawn it out on the whiteboard we've handily provided you, let's drill down into this little section. Could you map it out in a bit more detail? That is an AWESOME, open-ended question to start off an hour-long examination of someone's networking knowledge that you can spin off into anything you want, from business and marketing to traffic shaping to CDNs to how to make a Cat5 cable.
Dear Liz, My current job is okay but it's too limiting and I know I can take a step up. I started job hunting in February. I'm getting interviews. That's good. I don't mind job interviews, but I hate sitting in an interview answering stupid questions. Don't these interviewers realize how idiotic and unprofessional they sound when they ask, "What's your greatest weakness? " or, "Where do you see yourself in five years? " These questions are ancient and trite. They're cliches. How can I answer one of the traditional, dumb interview questions without being sarcastic -- or hating myself for giving an answer that's just as trite and dumb as the question? Thanks Liz, Tara Dear Tara, I sympathize with you, because the traditional interview questions are brutal. If you give the expected, Sheepie Job Answer, you'll hate yourself later for being so wimpy. However, you may feel pressure to give the interviewer an answer they will like. Here's an example of a standard, obnoxious interview question and the standard, Sheepie answer.
That's a great answer. You just redefined the question while still meeting the original criteria. Anything that includes a GPS phone, a method to get off the island, or a lifetime supply of cold drinks is good. So is his Maui answer. Any answer along the lines of "The Bible, a photo of my loved ones and Yahoo for Dummies" is bad, because you're gonna be stuck on that island for a long, long time, waiting for someone else to take care of you. If you need someone else to take care of you on a regular basis, you don't belong in a tech job. 7) "What is your least favorite thing about humanity? " -- ZocDoc, Operations Associate interview. The real question: "How well can you play with others? " This is an invitation for you to dig your own grave. It's a refined version of "What's your greatest weakness" in a way that doesn't put you on the spot- it requires you to critique others, which is so much easier and less threatening! When you get all worked up about how 99% of humanity is a bunch of clueless morons, including most managers and almost every coworker you've ever had, you've just answered the question they were really asking.
9) "How honest are you? " -- Allied Telesis, Executive Assistant interview. What's an executive assistant? A high powered secretary. Yes, people really are stupid enough and dishonest enough to say they were fired from their last job for stealing office petty cash funds. 10) "How many square feet of pizza are eaten in the U. S. each year? " -- Goldman Sachs, Programmer Analyst interview. A programmer analyst for a major corporation that deals with huge numbers and incomplete data on a constant basis? What on earth could this possibly have to do with that? Here's what they're really asking: Are you a problem solver, or are you the type of person who can only work when everything has been carefully laid out for you? Can you prove it? The answer doesn't matter. Being able to ballpark something within the right order of magnitude is a good thing, and being able to come up with a process on the spot to figure it out is really important. Most people here might be wondering why on earth you'd ask such a silly, easy to estimate question in an interview.
Interviewer: What's your greatest weakness? You: Oh, my greatest weakness is that I'm always working! I never know when to quit, tee hee! Apart from making you hate yourself, a Sheepie-type answer to a traditional interview question will not help you get a job. Why not? Interviewers who stoop to ask the lame, traditional interview questions really think that they are plumbing the depths of your soul with their questions. People who still ask the interview question, "What's your greatest weakness? " don't want a job applicant to say, "My greatest weakness is that I work too hard. " They think that answer is not "authentic" enough. If you are horrified by the idea that a complete stranger who is not a trained psychologist and is in no way entitled to know your weaknesses would find fault with your answer to their insulting question, you have choices. You can tough it out and make it through your screening interview in hopes of eventually meeting with your hiring manager -- the person who will be your boss if you end up taking the job.
I need to know what I'm good at and love to do -- in my case that means forecasting and modeling -- and get better at those things. So, these days I don't think about weaknesses -- I try to build on my strengths. It is none of the interviewer's business what your weaknesses might be, if you have weaknesses at all. I don't believe that you have any weaknesses. What are weaknesses? They are things you can't do well that you believe you should be able to do well. Why would you believe anything like that? You are perfectly equipped to bring your art and your wisdom to the right job. The answer above will shake the interviewer's frame -- that is, you will make the interviewer think -- because you are not answering in the standard, tush-kissy way. You will stick out in the interviewer's mind without calling them out for the stupidity of their question. Interviewer: Where do you see yourself in five years? You: I have found that a one-year planning horizon works best for me because of the fast pace of change these days.