{"id":128,"date":"2006-06-22T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T21:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=128"},"modified":"2006-06-22T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T21:36:29","slug":"interview-questions-that-numb-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/interview-questions-that-numb-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Questions That Numb the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/featuredreports.monster.com\/firstimpression\/100_questions\/\" target=\"_blank\">100 Potential Interview Questions<\/a>. Nothing we like more than a list here at <em>The Hire Sense<\/em>. Some of the questions from monster.com are utterly inane. I give you number 96:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With your eyes closed, tell me step-by-step how to tie my shoes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not kidding. Some I wouldn&#8217;t know what a good answer would entail if I were asking the question. For example, number 40:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you were an animal, which one would you want to be?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I shouldn&#8217;t be too harsh since there are some good ones also in the list like number 27:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tell me about a time where you had to deal with conflict on the job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good starter question that will require the interviewer to drill down on the candidate&#8217;s first response to get to the clear truth. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Newsletters\/2005\/2005_May_3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here is more technique on drilling down<\/a>, in case you were wondering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100 Potential Interview Questions. Nothing we like more than a list here at The Hire Sense. Some of the questions from monster.com are utterly inane. I give you number 96: With your eyes closed, tell me step-by-step how to tie my shoes. I&#8217;m not kidding. Some I wouldn&#8217;t know what a good answer would entail if I were asking the question. For example, number 40: If you were an animal, which one would you want to be? I shouldn&#8217;t be too harsh since there are some good ones also in the list like number 27: Tell me about a time where you had to deal with conflict on the job.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/interview-questions-that-numb-the-mind\/\">Read More<\/a><\/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":[2,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-24","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->