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Expert Commentary
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| By Jane Chin, Ph.D. of Jane Chin Associates on Oct 29 2007 11:22AM |
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| "Can You Tell A Joke?" Crazy Interview Questions |
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There are plenty of books to help you prepare for the regular gamut of questions you may encounter during a job interview, and if you're too cheap to buy books, here are 64 interview answers "you need to know" freely available on the internet.
But what if you were asked interview questions like, "What is your perception of the painting in the lobby?" or "Can you tell a joke?" or "If
your alma mater was a cereal, what would it be?"
This was the topic of CareerJournal's recent article, "Strategies for Answering Weird Interview Questions". Unfortunately, the article doesn't offer strategies other than 1) answering the question and 2) guessing the motivation behind the question, both of which may not help you get the job.
The closest I've been asked a crazy interview question was "If you could choose to have dinner with someone famous dead or alive, who would it be and why?" This was for a science manager position. To this day I still don't know how the answer would have much to do with my competency for the position, although it may shed some light on what types of role models I may consider. On the other hand, I could only pick one person, which meant it wouldn't give the interviewer the depth that these types of questions are meant to evoke. (I didn't pick a scientist for an answer and I didn't get the job, although I was told that it wasn't because of my answer, but due to a competing candidate having more experience in the managed care field.)
The truth is, most of the people asking these questions have no idea how to interpret the answers, and the "experts" who devise these types of questions may not even be able to back up these questions with validated correlation to parameters relating to competence and job performance. Why do some interviewers still bother with crazy interview questions?
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