Enjoy.

That is classic!

I might quote some of them, if I want to insure I don't get the job, based on the fact that the current postal system caused the death of my family.

How I dont quite know but it did!

Some of those are just brilliant!

Speaking of being truthful in an interview, it reminds me of the time I applied for a job at COX Communications. I wanted to get into tech support and during the interviewing process they have you fill out a personality profile questionnaire. Most of the questions are geared to see if you are a risk taker and whether you'll be a financial risk if they hire you with questions about whether you would ever consider skydiving or scuba diving. Needless to say I answered all the questions honestly and didn't get the job.

Hey, just because I would jump out of a plane if given the opportunity doesn't mean that I am not a stable person. The fact that I may show up one day with artillery is what makes me unstable.

~spidey

I recall once applying for a job at a book store, and on the application where it asked what your weaknesses were, I wrote "Kryptonite and British comedies." Not sure why I didn't get that job...

Anyway, these are awesome. As someone who did a lot of job querying and interviewing over the last couple years, I wish I'd written some of these.

:b

Luna, if I were the hiring manager at a bookstore, and someone listed her weaknesses as Kryptonite and British comedies, I would have offered her the job on the spot.

Oh how I've been tempted to put something like this on my CV/Resume) cover letters. Great stuff!

- trag

Something similar happened with me a few weeks ago. I filled out an online application for Blockbuster. After the initial information was entered, I had to do one of those personality profile things, which in this case was the exact same twelve questions, over and over, reworded about nine times each. Anyway, I did all of it, and then a week later when I went in to check on the application and hopefully schedule an interview, they told me, based on my answers to those questions, the system had deemed me overqualified and automatically rejected my application before anyone could even see it.

How the hell I ended up overqualified for Blockbuster based on a personality questionaire, I have no idea.


~Puppies

Apparently Puppies, you're just not homicidal enough to be Blockbuster material.

Hmmm...to reply or not? @#$%!! Some things are probably best left unsaid. I once applied to teach English in China through an agency in the U.S., and had to fill out this whole package and take a personality test. I don't even think that they asked, but in a misguided fit of "brutal honesty" I went into a paragraph and I think I mentioned "depression," "megalomania," and maybe even "mildly bi-polar." (Which is self-verifying. Who in their right mind would put that on a job application unless they were freaking batty?) At the time, I thought it would have been dishonest NOT to tell them. When the axeman finally called to tell me the bad news (the same guy with whom I had been corresponding thoughout the application process), he sounded uncomfortable. He probably thought I was going to track him down or something. Since they paid for the personality test, I didn't think it was a good idea to ask about the results.
You could consider that to be a bad idea at the time (it was), but I look back on it and laugh. (Honestly, I'm laughing hysterically as I type this.) Now, I work a pretty high-profile job and just keep my mouth shut. As long as I do the job, they really don't care. You gotta laugh, though. Live and learn.

Dquick, it makes for a much better story at any rate. ;P

As a word of warning to those of us who have been diagnosed as having any of the above mentioned illnesses, it's illegal for an interviewer to ask about your health, mental or otherwise (as well as your age, marital status, sexuality, etc), and you should never disclose that information. Just because potential employers aren't "allowed" to discriminate, doesn't mean they won't.

Lady,

Are you saying that I'm ill? Nonsense! Why, I feel fit as a fiddle! By the way, do you know how to get these bugs to quit crawling all over me all the time? The doctor says they aren't real, but I know better!

(Just kidding. That's good advice though. Mulţumesc foarte mult.)