(Note: This article is from the author’s Win the Job War blog) “Why can’t people just say what they mean and mean what they say?” lamented Jenny, a mid-level manager for one of my client businesses. “If we focused all of this energy on the business we wouldn’t have most of the issues that cause […]
Reinforcing the perspective that there is no such thing as a bad/dumb interview question, here are some comments I’ve received to my recent article “Dumb Answers to Bad Interview Questions.” The most commonly cited “dumb” question was “if you were a plant, what kind of plant would you be?” Variants of this question included animal, […]
Recently on our “Win the Job War” blog we’ve been getting a number of comments and complaints about job interviewers asking questions that seem (to the candidate) to be pointless, silly, inane or downright offensive. In addition I recently read an article about “stupid” job interview questions and everyone seems to agree that questions like […]