I find myself sitting awake at 5am reflecting on a few things. Lets not mention that I had been asleep for several hour and woke up suddenly for no apparent reason. This weeks interview status;
- Thursday – Totally blew chunks, can anyone actually picture me as a financial adviser for Amex?
- Friday – Went well, even though its technically below what I want to do.
I‘ve always found some of the questions that they ask you at interviews terribly amusing. Some are actually thought provoking, while others are so terribly redundant or just plain irrelevant. Here are a couple of the ones I still find myself thinking about.
- What accomplishment are you most proud of?
- Describe your troubleshooting skills.
- Give me an example of something that didn’t work out, and what you learned from it.
As I got to thinking more about these questions, and my own applicable answers I started to realize just how much this sounded like one of those stupid “copy and paste this into your journal and answer the questions” or “if you answer these questions, and forward this email off to X of you friends you will have good luck”. I must admit that this thought bothered me. The majority of them I felt were too stupid or too time consuming to even bother with.
So here we are with a new take on an old as the net idea. Choose one of the following questions and answer it. Don’t answer it for me, answer it for you. If you prefer make your post in your LJ personal, write the answer in your paper journal, or if you really want post your reply here as a comment. Explain your answer in such a fashion that you ;
- keep the original question evident
- answer in such a fashion that you can look back at it and understand where and why you answered the way that you did (justification)
- optionally explain why you chose that question in the first place
With the rules set down, here are the questions to choose from.
- What accomplishment are you most proud of?
- Give me an example of something that didn’t work out, and what you learned from it.
- What do you most regret, and if you could would you change it, and why?
- Think of a problem with how something works currently (ie. personal, work, world, society) how would you fix it?
- What do you really want? (include why)
- If you could start a company right now, what would your product be?
For those that don’t want to actually think and evaluate what they are thinking there is one alternative question:
enjoy…