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Job Interviewing Tutorial for Job-Seekers


 

Handling frequently asked interview questions
Answering "off-the-wall" (wild card) questions:

 

Example: If you had to live your life over again, what would you change?

 

Example: If you were a color, what color would you be -- and why?

 

Example: If they were making a movie of your life, who should be hired to play you in it?

 

Example: If you were an animal, what animal would you be -- and why?

 

"Off-the-wall" questions -- also referred to as Wild Card questions -- are asked by interviewers to see how well you think on your feet, whether you will get flustered.

 

The trick is to keep your cool -- and your sense of humor.

 

Generally speaking, there are no wrong answers... but answers in which you can relate the off-the-wall topic tpositively to key qualifications and/or to the job and organization are much stronger.

 

Read more in our article, Don't Get Stumped by Off-the-Wall Job Interview Questions.

 

 


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