Very Honest Interview Questions
Remember my Very Honest Resume? Here are a few Very Honest Interview Questions.
Describe your experience working deadlines.
Well, honestly, the tighter the deadline the better. Long deadlines provide me with greater opportunity to hem and haw, to talk myself out of whatever writing project I am working on, or to freak out about whether the thing I've written is perfect rather than simply excellent. Yep. Give me 24 hours over 4 weeks any day. I know it's totally cliche to use the P-word -- "perfectionist" -- but that is the sickness I'm afflicted with. So please give me tight deadlines to work with because I don't have a prescription drug rider on my health insurance plan and I'd rather just work under the influence of endorphins (which are free) rather than some kind of OCD medication (which isn't).
Do you have any experience interviewing people?
No, unless you count the phone interview I did with my grammy for an oral history project in 7th grade. (She hung up on me.) But I imagine that my interviewing style would be a delightful cross between Dorothy Fuldheim and Ali G.
How would your last boss describe you?
My last boss just told me yesterday that something I wrote on her Facebook wall made her laugh so hard she wet her pants. So, she would probably tell you I shouldn't be trusted around the incontinent.
Describe your experience working deadlines.
Well, honestly, the tighter the deadline the better. Long deadlines provide me with greater opportunity to hem and haw, to talk myself out of whatever writing project I am working on, or to freak out about whether the thing I've written is perfect rather than simply excellent. Yep. Give me 24 hours over 4 weeks any day. I know it's totally cliche to use the P-word -- "perfectionist" -- but that is the sickness I'm afflicted with. So please give me tight deadlines to work with because I don't have a prescription drug rider on my health insurance plan and I'd rather just work under the influence of endorphins (which are free) rather than some kind of OCD medication (which isn't).
Do you have any experience interviewing people?
No, unless you count the phone interview I did with my grammy for an oral history project in 7th grade. (She hung up on me.) But I imagine that my interviewing style would be a delightful cross between Dorothy Fuldheim and Ali G.
How would your last boss describe you?
My last boss just told me yesterday that something I wrote on her Facebook wall made her laugh so hard she wet her pants. So, she would probably tell you I shouldn't be trusted around the incontinent.
posted by Christine Borne at 8:36 AM
1 Comments:
What is your biggest weakness? I love getting that question
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