I had a client in for a mock interview today. Jim has an interview tomorrow with a well-known financial services company. He was a bright lad, he had an impressive CV, a string of top qualifications to his name, and he was tall and well built – it turned out he was a rugby player.
I took him through the interview questions, giving him feedback on each one. Then we came almost to the end of the interview. I asked him,
- Is there anything else the firm should know about, that isn’t on your CV?
A question like this gives a candidate the opportunity to express qualities about themselves that are not on their CV, such as personality traits that would enhance their ‘asset value’ to the prospective employer.
Jim ponders the question, and says, in all seriousness,
- Well, in my spare time I like to travel all around the country to shopping malls and sell people goldfish.
WTF?!!!
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