{"id":1184,"date":"2007-09-14T07:38:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T12:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/questions-from-left-field\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T07:39:14","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T12:39:14","slug":"questions-from-left-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/questions-from-left-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions From Left Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a weakness for bizarre interview questions so Yahoo’s Oddball Interview Questions<\/a> was a must read. Apparently these questions are couched as a method for determining if a candidate will fit into the corporate culture.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the article provides more insight into how to handle these questions as opposed to the actual questions themselves. Still, a couple of dandies are in there:<\/p>\n

“What would I find in your refrigerator?”<\/p>\n
“What did you want to be when you were 10 years old?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You know, some times just having an open, clear discussion with a candidate will accomplish more than some loaded, oddball question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have a weakness for bizarre interview questions so Yahoo’s Oddball Interview Questions was a must read. Apparently these questions are couched as a method for determining if a candidate will fit into the corporate culture. Right. Anyway, the article provides more insight into how to handle these questions as opposed to the actual questions themselves. Still, a couple of dandies are in there: “What would I find in your refrigerator?” “What did you want to be when you were 10 years old?” You know, some times just having an open, clear discussion with a candidate will accomplish more than some loaded, oddball question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-j6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}