{"id":3463,"date":"2009-03-04T10:19:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T10:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/04\/best-and-worst-interview-quest\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T10:19:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T10:19:28","slug":"best-and-worst-interview-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/04\/best-and-worst-interview-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Best and Worst Interview Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent a few hours Sunday afternoon interviewing students for positions in the Minerva House program<\/a>, a student life initiative that I’m involved with. The interviews were don by a panel– me and four students– and we tried to mix in a few oddball interview questions with the serious stuff.<\/p>\n

The most successful of these was “What are five things you can do with a straw?” One of the students kept trying to ask “If you could be any Pokemon, which would you be, and why?” but we’re apparently not drawing from a nerdy enough pool of students, because most of them couldn’t think of anything.<\/p>\n

I thought I’d throw this out there to my readers, though, because I’m sure some of you know a lot more about oddball intwerview questions than I do. So:<\/p>\n

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What is the best interview question you know of? The worst?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These could be questions you were asked, questions you have asked job candidates, or really weird questions you’d like to ask a job candidate, but nobody is foolish enough to give you the power to ask. Leave your favorite, or least favorite, in the comments. If I like any of them enough to steal for future use, I’ll make up some sort of prize to give you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent a few hours Sunday afternoon interviewing students for positions in the Minerva House program, a student life initiative that I’m involved with. The interviews were don by a panel– me and four students– and we tried to mix in a few oddball interview questions with the serious stuff. The most successful of these… Continue reading Best and Worst Interview Questions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}