30 Of The Most Unhinged Questions People Were Asked During Job Interviews, As Shared In This Online Group

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average person holds around 12.4 jobs between the ages of 18 and 54, and this figure is actually rising every year. In fact, our world is becoming faster and faster, and the stories of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who could work all their lives in one place, are definitely not about us, and not for us as well. Moreover, the U.S. Department of Labor states that approximately 30% of the total workforce will now change jobs every 12 months.

Accordingly, this means more and more interviews and, well, more miscellaneous questions, some of which we will remember as ridiculous, outrageous, or revealing the incompetence of the person who asks them, even if it turns out to be direct company management. Yes, this also happens, we are well aware of such situations.

For many years now, stories have been circulating around the world about strange questions that come across during interviews with applicants at Google, Facebook, Apple and other IT giants. On the one hand, the purpose of such questions is to reveal the creative potential of the candidate for the position, to determine how they will act in a completely non-obvious situation.

On the other hand, when small companies try to adopt this experience, using, let's say, "the Ctrl+C - Ctrl+V method", it doesn't work out very well - after all, for huge corporations, these questions are specially developed by leading psychologists. If you want an example - voila, this story of ours about how the owner of a small clothing store demanded a video resume for getting a low-salary, part-time assistant job.

HR experts divide interview questions in large companies into four main groups: behavioral, leadership, skills and company-specific. According to experts, correctly posed questions in these four categories are enough to draw up an accurate professional portrait of a candidate. As for hobbies - especially hobbies outside the job, they're in fact not that important - after all, it's not a spouse you're looking for!

And still, opening the door to the next room, where several people are waiting, on whom our nearest future could largely depend, we inevitably get worried. Although you really shouldn't worry. After all, if you are a good specialist, then a decent job will not go anywhere. Well, or, at least, your bag of stories will be enriched with a new amusing tale to tell friends on occasion. So now please feel free to scroll to the very end of this selection of such tales thoroughly collected by Bored Panda, and be sure to tell yours if you have one.