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28-03-2008, 06:53 PM   #1

Craziest Interview Question?


Two separate threads sort of got me thinking about this - Smudgley saying she'd been for an interview and Yola's apologies for the bare naked ladies on her wall behind the Artful Dodger! (My brain just works like that - OK?)

What was the craziest question you have ever been asked when attending an interview?

Mine was my interview for a place at Art School in 1974 when I was asked what I thought about streaking! I said I didn't mind but was not inclined to do it myself! That of course progressed my thinking to that song "The Streak" by Ray Stevens and lo and behold there are loads of his songs on YouTube! - so here's the link just to round of my circular thinking!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eIPv9AtZ2zE



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28-03-2008, 08:09 PM   #2

Re: Craziest Interview Question?


Angie, believe it or not I've only had 2 jobs in my life (well, a Summer clerking job when I was 16 which really doesn't count): my first job they were so desperate for warm bodies that they hired me almost as I walked thru the door...and I stayed 39 years!! Then got the last job before I retired thru the old girls network...never had an interview for that one!

I always read the About Jobs column in our paper and that came up once: a woman said that the oddest question she was ever asked in an interview was: "If you were a tree, what tree would you be?" !!!



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28-03-2008, 09:14 PM   #3

Re: Craziest Interview Question?


I was always an awkward so and so. After circumstances and moral choices made me give up an academic pusuit;I was once asked by this `child`

"What do you think the difference between work and University will be"

I replied "money and an easy life?"



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28-03-2008, 11:18 PM   #4

Re: Craziest Interview Question?


I'll have to think about that one - I know there were one or two that make me blink at the time (putting it mildly) . . .

You went to art school?? Superb! Me too Albeit I was 10 years after you . . . OH went too, but in the late 60s. Which one did you go to?



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28-03-2008, 11:26 PM   #5

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West Sussex College of Art and Design in Worthing. Did go to Croydon for a term to do pottery but didn't like the course, so went back to Worthing. Did a multi-disciplinary course (first year it was done at Worthing) concentrated on printmaking and illustration and did some ceramic sculpture too - always found it hard to be single-minded!



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28-03-2008, 11:33 PM   #6

Re: Craziest Interview Question?


It was a question on an application form that stumped me
'What is is your sexual preference?'
Homosexual male
Lesbian female
Heterosexual
Other???

I put............................

NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
Needless to say I never got an interview



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28-03-2008, 11:44 PM   #7

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Goodness gracious me! I would have thought that was an illegal question. Wonder what they meant by "other" - !!!



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28-03-2008, 11:47 PM   #8

Re: Craziest Interview Question?


Quote:
Originally Posted by babycakes
It was a question on an application form that stumped me
'What is is your sexual preference?'
Homosexual male
Lesbian female
Heterosexual
Other???

I put............................

NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS
Needless to say I never got an interview




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28-03-2008, 11:49 PM   #9

Re: Craziest Interview Question?


Obviously trying to pc and cover statistical information but I don't know what they meant by other either and I don't know to this day what business it was. I was tempted to tick them all but I knew I would never work anywhere that asked that but needed to send the form back anyway



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