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Off-the-Wall/Wild Card Job Interview Practice Questions

 

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Are you prepared for your next interview? How well can you answer these 20 off-the-wall/wild card job interview questions? Take our practice interview by placing your response to each question in the text blocks below.   Once you've completed your responses, send the form to us by pressing the submit button. Print out a copy of the response page so you'll have a copy of your answers. We'll then send you a sample excellent response for each question so that you can compare how you answered each traditional job interview question with our response.   Your full name: Your email address: (e.g.: you@aol.com) Please re-enter your email address:   If You Use Yahoo, Read This Note! Do you have an unfriendly email server? If you use Yahoo for your email, the answer is yes. Yahoo consistently is bouncing email sent from the QuintCareers server -- and you will not receive your subscription to QuintZine. You can certainly contact Yahoo and encourage it to whitelist quintcareers.com, but in the meantime, you should submit this with an alternate email account.   [For assistance in developing answers to these questions, please refer to our article, Don't Get Stumped by Off-the-Wall Job Interview Questions.]   1. If you could have dinner with anyone from history, who would it be, and why?   2. What did you want to be when you were 10 years old?   3. What would I find in your refrigerator?   4. List 3 words that describe your character.   5. List 3 positive character traits you DON'T have.   6. If you had the opportunity to switch to the opposite gender for just a week, would you do it? Why or why not?   7. If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you?   8. If you could be a superhero, what would you want your superpowers to be?   9. If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be?   10. If you had to be shipwrecked on a deserted island, but all your human needs -- such as food and water -- were taken care of, what two items would you want to have with you?   11. If you had six months with no obligations or financial constraints, what would you do with the time?   12. If you could compare yourself with any animal, which would it be and why?   13. If you were a type of food, what type of food would you be?   14. If you won $20 million in the lottery, what would you do with the money?   15. If you were a car, what kind would you be?   16. Who do you admire the most and why?   17. In the news story about your life, what would the headline say?   18. If you could be a candy bar, what would you be and why?   19. If you were a Star Wars character, which one would it be?   20. If you could trade places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional, with whom would you trade?

 

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