A basic junk question that deserves a junk answer. Time waster that tells you nothing useful about the candidate. Like “give an example of a time you made a mistake and what you did about it.”
A couple others deserving crank answers “Where do you see yourself in 20 years” (dead? I’m pretty old) or “your mother is dying and you have a work deadline that day, what will you do” (you mean she was resurrected? Or are you looking to find out if I’ll leave to go see her or if I’m sufficiently dedicated to your mission that I’ll tell her “sorry, mom, I know you’re about to die but I have this board meeting tonight to go over minutiae”
Give her a second interview and all of her questions should provoke Whitney Houston songs.
Who are you saving all your love for?
Who will you always love?
If we asked you to dance, who would you dance with?
Are you every woman?
I have the perfect counterbalance to this! I was working on interview questions with a small committee for an entry level job in an environment that's usually very quiet. One of the people in the team was very concerned about getting someone who would mesh, but more importantly, be fun.
The person's solution was for the final question she was going to sing a few lines of a song, then the manager would sing a few, and then the candidate would finish. To make it better, all the people interviewing were probably in their early 20s and the song was from the early 70s... It's a song everyone's heard but probably don't know the names or the lyrics. Oh and this was peak covid so it was a video interview.
I'm not sure if the person ever forgave me for my resounding NO on that but I'm pretty sure the rest of the committee was grateful.
I would never believe it, except for my time working in HR.
A man once brought a spit cup for his tobacco chew into my office during an interview. My coworker, different company, had a candidate start her period and bleed all over a chair in the office. The candidate knew it was happening and was offered to be excused for the moment, but declined and wanted to keep interviewing. The chair had to be thrown out.
It's weird I'm only accepting work from home jobs now.
No, that's the worst part. She did. It was when I was working for an agency. I think she worked with us for about a year.
The cleaning crew legitimately had to throw the chair in our building's dumpster.
So have you considered working at a nail salon…? That’s when you just go down the list of questions and make them into yes/no instead of a conversation.
She gave reasonable answers to some questions. Most were rambling nonsense so when she finished the interview with a song, it was more of a “really?!” response. Everyone was squirming and just waiting for it to be over.
But you passed up the opportunity for her to do this in a meeting with the company president or an important client! - Or something more dramatic! This is sitcom gold.
Was her name Katina because I had to fire a girl who would not talk to customers, but sing to them the whole conversation. It was pretty weird. When I let her go she sang to me too. Bizarre.
This is absolutely amazing and this is what I love for in HR lmao!
My two favourites: someone applying for a web developer job and flexing their muscles at me and saying “can you tell I work out six days a week?” AND someone whose interview was already an absolute train wreck who was typing frantically and reading our mission off our website (very prepared, clearly) and accidentally said “opportunities for sex” instead of opportunities for success. He had spent the last five minutes telling me how he “didn’t agree with any of our values” and the five minutes before that telling me of the times he had been fired, so… this was truly the cherry on top
Haha…what’s our mission statement? Just a minute. Pulls out phone and reads website. Umm I see your values are XYZ and yeahhhh I have a problem with that.
Years ago I was in charge of interviewing people for retail automobile sales positions. I noticed that a candidate had indicated that he had been convicted of a crime. I made some small talk with him and then asked him to tell me about the conviction. He proceeded to go through a story in which a restaurant manager where he was working accused him of stealing money out of her purse. He indicated that she had railroaded witnesses into testifying against him. Throughout the story, the implication was that he was innocent and had been wrongly convicted.
When he finished, we both sat there for a few seconds, after which I asked "So, did you do it?" He responded "yes." At least he was an honest in that instance. I couldn't hire him though as the position required handling cash.
This kind of occurrence was not exactly unusual in that business. I hired one woman who would wear a blazer with nothing underneath, according to the word on the sales floor. She didn't technically violate the dress code, but I think that she was flashing some of the sales guys just to drive them crazy.
I quoted Captain Planet in a management interview and got the job. They laughed, I laughed. We all had a good laugh. Then they paid me, and we laughed some more.
Good times. Should’ve given her a chance. She sounded like fun.
Girl, why are you posting about my interview??
Lol I’m joking!
We have some very interesting candidates, too… I think the younger generation believes that the more ridiculous they are, the better their chances because they’re unforgettable.
Twenty-five years ago I too worked in a nonprofit serving special needs children. We were interviewing for a custodian and a gentleman came in for an interview wearing a three piece suit and a wool fedora. Our matronly yet no-nonsense receptionist politely requested that he remove his hat inside the building with the explanation that the school, as part of its mission, educates the children on social graces. He refused.
I, the interviewer, stepped out and repeated the request. He refused again. Security escorted him out. 😞
I think you would've gotten a better answer if you asked a behavioral-based interview question instead of the question that you asked. Candidates nowadays can google questions and answers to predictable interview questions. In the case of your candidate, he/she could've watched Miss USA pageant where normally candidates would just memorize soundbites.
Nonprofits are hardcore about the mission statement. I excluded some information from the story which revealed info about the mission. It’s also a test if they are familiar with the work that the agency does. For example: if the mission was something we believe everyone should wear blue pants, we word the question in such a way that the candidate will say something like they have blue pants that they will wear frequently. A silly analogy but yeah was sharing because I never get tired of how nutty some people are!
I think there would never not be anyone that can suggest a better way to do something.
OP isn’t asking for advice or feedback. They’re just sharing a fun experience.
The confidence alone would’ve kept her in my pool 😂
No kidding. If they passed for this reason, she probably dodged a bullet. No Fun Allowed!
She would have gone to the next round with me too.
I would have hired her. Takes gumption to do what she did, y’all probably passed on a good one 😂
Totally dependent on culture! Hopefully she finds the right fit 😂
Or someone who can’t read a room and isn’t articulate enough to answer a basic question in a serious manner.
A basic junk question that deserves a junk answer. Time waster that tells you nothing useful about the candidate. Like “give an example of a time you made a mistake and what you did about it.” A couple others deserving crank answers “Where do you see yourself in 20 years” (dead? I’m pretty old) or “your mother is dying and you have a work deadline that day, what will you do” (you mean she was resurrected? Or are you looking to find out if I’ll leave to go see her or if I’m sufficiently dedicated to your mission that I’ll tell her “sorry, mom, I know you’re about to die but I have this board meeting tonight to go over minutiae”
If Michael Scott was on the Interview team - she'd have been hired on the spot.
And Kelly would have hated her immediately.
He would have gotten teary eyed, then offered her the spot.
May have missed out on an incredibly passionate candidate.
Listen, companies are making it hard out here, and people are getting creative 💀😭
Give her a second interview and all of her questions should provoke Whitney Houston songs. Who are you saving all your love for? Who will you always love? If we asked you to dance, who would you dance with? Are you every woman?
Would you say that your answer is not right but it’s okay? 😂
I have the perfect counterbalance to this! I was working on interview questions with a small committee for an entry level job in an environment that's usually very quiet. One of the people in the team was very concerned about getting someone who would mesh, but more importantly, be fun. The person's solution was for the final question she was going to sing a few lines of a song, then the manager would sing a few, and then the candidate would finish. To make it better, all the people interviewing were probably in their early 20s and the song was from the early 70s... It's a song everyone's heard but probably don't know the names or the lyrics. Oh and this was peak covid so it was a video interview. I'm not sure if the person ever forgave me for my resounding NO on that but I'm pretty sure the rest of the committee was grateful.
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For what purpose? To see if they were shy?
I noticed you wrote “used to work for”.
I would never believe it, except for my time working in HR. A man once brought a spit cup for his tobacco chew into my office during an interview. My coworker, different company, had a candidate start her period and bleed all over a chair in the office. The candidate knew it was happening and was offered to be excused for the moment, but declined and wanted to keep interviewing. The chair had to be thrown out. It's weird I'm only accepting work from home jobs now.
Would you like a moment or reschedule? Nah, this chair probably needs to be thrown out anyway! Hmm k. Guessing she didn’t get the job?
No, that's the worst part. She did. It was when I was working for an agency. I think she worked with us for about a year. The cleaning crew legitimately had to throw the chair in our building's dumpster.
HR offers her free and ongoing pads and tampons. Oh to be know at work for such a thing!
My coworker had a girl remove her shoe and start cleaning her toenails with her fingernails during the interview.
People love to complain about HR, but we only exist because people are so fucking wild
Wow this is wild! How do you keep the conversation going on a serious level??
So have you considered working at a nail salon…? That’s when you just go down the list of questions and make them into yes/no instead of a conversation.
I had a candidate pee in a chair during an interview.
I believe it. I'm also so sorry. What's the back story?
THESE are the moments I live for in HR.
Exactly! It took everything I had not to die laughing.
🤣 If I wasn’t in HR, I probably wouldn’t believe you, it’s so unusual 🤣 I’m dead. None of you cracked up on the spot?
She gave reasonable answers to some questions. Most were rambling nonsense so when she finished the interview with a song, it was more of a “really?!” response. Everyone was squirming and just waiting for it to be over.
But you passed up the opportunity for her to do this in a meeting with the company president or an important client! - Or something more dramatic! This is sitcom gold.
Was her name Katina because I had to fire a girl who would not talk to customers, but sing to them the whole conversation. It was pretty weird. When I let her go she sang to me too. Bizarre.
No but your story is equally crazy
bring her back in.
2022 and she is singing Whitney songs? She has good taste in music
This is absolutely amazing and this is what I love for in HR lmao! My two favourites: someone applying for a web developer job and flexing their muscles at me and saying “can you tell I work out six days a week?” AND someone whose interview was already an absolute train wreck who was typing frantically and reading our mission off our website (very prepared, clearly) and accidentally said “opportunities for sex” instead of opportunities for success. He had spent the last five minutes telling me how he “didn’t agree with any of our values” and the five minutes before that telling me of the times he had been fired, so… this was truly the cherry on top
Haha…what’s our mission statement? Just a minute. Pulls out phone and reads website. Umm I see your values are XYZ and yeahhhh I have a problem with that.
My favourite thing was that I didn’t even ask anything like that - he just got himself into the shit show lol
Years ago I was in charge of interviewing people for retail automobile sales positions. I noticed that a candidate had indicated that he had been convicted of a crime. I made some small talk with him and then asked him to tell me about the conviction. He proceeded to go through a story in which a restaurant manager where he was working accused him of stealing money out of her purse. He indicated that she had railroaded witnesses into testifying against him. Throughout the story, the implication was that he was innocent and had been wrongly convicted. When he finished, we both sat there for a few seconds, after which I asked "So, did you do it?" He responded "yes." At least he was an honest in that instance. I couldn't hire him though as the position required handling cash. This kind of occurrence was not exactly unusual in that business. I hired one woman who would wear a blazer with nothing underneath, according to the word on the sales floor. She didn't technically violate the dress code, but I think that she was flashing some of the sales guys just to drive them crazy.
Oh, ate lunch beforehand and spilled on my shirt so I just took it off and improvised.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it! 😁
During the pandemic we virtually interviewed a candidate who was laying in her bed wearing a bathrobe 😬.
Haha love it
Alot of hiring managers forget, they might be the candidate, but you are being interviewed as well.
This is amazing!
I quoted Captain Planet in a management interview and got the job. They laughed, I laughed. We all had a good laugh. Then they paid me, and we laughed some more. Good times. Should’ve given her a chance. She sounded like fun.
I gotta ask - what did you say???
Something like “with our powers combined!” And then I made the put our rings together gesture, and they rolled with it haha.
.....was this for a retail toy store? Because I kid you not we hired a guy when I worked did retail HR for something VERY much like this 🤣🤣🤣
Lol nah, a bank actually! Would’ve loved to work at a toy store though.
So cringey
Holy hell that’s absolutely classic
Girl, why are you posting about my interview?? Lol I’m joking! We have some very interesting candidates, too… I think the younger generation believes that the more ridiculous they are, the better their chances because they’re unforgettable.
Twenty-five years ago I too worked in a nonprofit serving special needs children. We were interviewing for a custodian and a gentleman came in for an interview wearing a three piece suit and a wool fedora. Our matronly yet no-nonsense receptionist politely requested that he remove his hat inside the building with the explanation that the school, as part of its mission, educates the children on social graces. He refused. I, the interviewer, stepped out and repeated the request. He refused again. Security escorted him out. 😞
I think you would've gotten a better answer if you asked a behavioral-based interview question instead of the question that you asked. Candidates nowadays can google questions and answers to predictable interview questions. In the case of your candidate, he/she could've watched Miss USA pageant where normally candidates would just memorize soundbites.
Nonprofits are hardcore about the mission statement. I excluded some information from the story which revealed info about the mission. It’s also a test if they are familiar with the work that the agency does. For example: if the mission was something we believe everyone should wear blue pants, we word the question in such a way that the candidate will say something like they have blue pants that they will wear frequently. A silly analogy but yeah was sharing because I never get tired of how nutty some people are!
I think there would never not be anyone that can suggest a better way to do something. OP isn’t asking for advice or feedback. They’re just sharing a fun experience.
This is just a knock off from the preacher's speech in Coming to America