Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

what's your feared interview question? I have 2 next week and am shaking like a leaf already

I get stuck at "hello, how are you?" I don't know how to answer that.

All those fluffy questions too.... "How would you deal with a difficult person?" - it's such a stupid question. What sort of person? Colleague? Boss? Customer? Are they right/wrong? Does the outcome actually matter? So many variables. "Stitch them up and put a virus on their PC when they're at lunch" doesn't seem to be the correct answer either. Or, for customers, "prank call them 3x a day, using facebook to get the word out" ... again, not a winning answer.

vivatifosi

Good luck with the interview missk. Did you manage to find a suitable woollen dress?

misskool

vivatifosi wrote: »

Good luck with the interview missk. Did you manage to find a suitable woollen dress?

Thank you

I got this one with a grey jacket.

It is very cold at the moment though, tempted to wimp out :cool:

lostinrates

I hate the '' which three people alive or dead would you like to invite to supper''. what a stupid question that demands a lie: who is my great, great uncle to them?? dh hates the ''what's your biggest weakness'' question.

SingleSue

I find it most uncomfortable when they ask if I am sociable...I can be but not when there is work to be done. I would rather get my head down and get the work done before talking about Eastenders which can, at times, make me seem rather unsociable. I also tend not to attend many outside of work gatherings, I just seem not to have anything in common with the others and find nightclubs a chore rather than enjoyable (give me a decent pub though with some good live rock music and I am your girl!)

The "Where do you see yourself in three years time" is also an awkward one...I can get very ambitious and locked on promotion and it can make me seem...errr.... weird.

treliac

misskool wrote: »

what's your feared interview question? I have 2 next week and am shaking like a leaf already

'What are your strengths and weaknesses'?

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_reply_to_'What_are_your_strengths_and_weaknesses'_in_an_interview

I think it's of prime importance to be a team player. So be prepared to convey that (and to be one of course - which I'm sure you already are ).

treliac

misskool wrote: »

Thank you

I got this one with a grey jacket.

It is very cold at the moment though, tempted to wimp out :cool:

That's nice, just right for an interview. Looks like you bought the last one. :cool:

Best of luck.

michaels

I completely blew any street cred (I thought) I had when I visited a police station with a younger colleague to interview some officers about some technology the police had just introduced when there was a sudden strong smell of some sort of cleaning fluid - at which point junior colleague and officers smile and officer says they have just brought in a couple of cannabis plants - and I used to be a snowboarder...

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was walking down the road last night and smelt an overpowering smell of cannabis, even though I was the only person within 200 yards, nobody else was about, there was a bit of a gentle wind blowing and there were no houses on my side of the road.

"Must be one hell of a cannabis factory just round the corner" I thought.

GDB2222

tomterm8 wrote: »

The figure on the packet is produced via a scientific test, where basically they set fire to the food, and work out how much heat it produces. The test doesn't measure how much of this potential energy is actually digested.

Oh, I thought they were more sophisticated than that

GDB2222

misskool wrote: »

Thank you

I got this one with a grey jacket.

It is very cold at the moment though, tempted to wimp out :cool:

I like the dress.

What sort of job are you applying for, and how confident are you that you have the expertise to do it?

To those who feel that the right answer to 'why do you want this job' is 'to pay the mortgage', you need to add some emphasis to the question - 'why do you want this job'. Frankly, there's nothing wrong with mundane answers to mundane questions "I am confident I can do it, it's a step up from where I am so it'll stretch me, the work is interesting (even if it isn't), and I've heard great things about the company."