“I could, but then I’d have to kill you.”
“What’s your greatest weakness, Senator Clinton?” “I care too much.” Terrible, but actually quite effective.
I hate that website and the article doesn’t answer the question it poses in any way, shape or form.
In your chair.
I'm assuming the best response isn't "I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might incriminate myself."
Sometimes this question is given by a well-prepared interviewer, but in my experience (on “both sides” of the interview), this question is usually asked by an UNprepared interviewer. S/He (the interviewer) hasn’t even read the applicant’s resume carefully and is killing time as S/He BEGINS to read it while the applicant answers.
Same goes for other cliched questions: Sometimes there’s a good, prepared interviewer asking it, but not usually.
A variation on the theme, meant to make the UNprepared interviewer SOUND prepared by implication, is, “Tell me something about yourself that’s not apparent from your resume.” I really hate these (although I had an answer ready). Dude? The reason stuff IS or IS NOT on my resume is because of what’s important to this job. Jeesh.
Before or after the double homicide?
I’ve always found it best to open with a particular quote from Winger, Bill Murray’s caracter, in the movie ‘Stripes’:
“Chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear and when I do it’s usually something unusual...”
That always breaks the ice and eases any tension in the room...
First guy: "We don't have enough time. I have too many skills to list them all."
That was his entire answer.
“Well, I’m a jolly kind of guy to have around when I remember to take my meds, and my Parole Officer says that the survivors of that little thing with the fire axe have pretty much laughed the whole thing off by now. Do you think the ankle bracelet spoils the hang of this suit?”
No.
Well....It all started when I was a Merc for a small Afician nation.This job doesnt have any branches in the Congo, because I am still wanted there.
My response "In the black." I didn't getr the job ...
What is your greatest weakness?
Choking people who ask mundane interview questions.
Tell me about yourself.
Which one?
Where do you see yourself in five years?
I’ll be a billionaire because, according to you, I can see the future.
Who is your hero?
My dog. He can lick his own balls.
I hate freagin tips. There are sooo many tipsters trying to tell me things these days from the media that it is nauseating. Granted, I like the ready availability of information from google and the like. But I like to pull the info, not have it pushed at me.
The best interview advice I received was how to deal with the dreaded “what kind of salary are you looking for?” question.
You turn it back on them by asking “what is the range for this position?”
It really works.
These are my favorite type questions to ask when interviewing candidates. In my case I usually put it this way.
“What’s up with you....what’s the (so and so) story?”
I find framing it in the third person tends to open some up to be more chatty and others, particularly those unable to think on their feet, it completely knocks them off their game because they have not scripted answer. Had one engineering candidate sit and stare at the table for two minutes before he could come up with something to say.