{"id":7214,"date":"2004-10-08T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/08\/tell-me-about-yourself.html"},"modified":"2004-10-08T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2004-10-08T16:31:03","slug":"tell_me_about_y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/08\/tell_me_about_y.html","title":{"rendered":"“Tell me about yourself”"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to answer the 25 toughest questions they’ll ask you at a job interview<\/a>. The article is for executives, but I can tell you it applies to a lot of jobs I’ve done the interviewing for.<\/p>\n

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Unless it's simply to see how applicants react to silly questions. #ddtb Embedded Link Bizarre Interview Questions (and How to Answer Them) these days, companies are sprinkling in a few brain-teasers and technical problems that make \"If you were an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9235,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/04\/job_interview_q.html","url_meta":{"origin":7214,"position":2},"title":"Job interview questions","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-Aug-06 6:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"I thought this Computerworld article on \"asking questions back\" in job interviews was pretty interesting. Not that I'm interviewing or anything (seriously) -- but I do interview people, and it's...","rel":"","context":"In "Job Jollies"","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10159,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/questions_to_be.html","url_meta":{"origin":7214,"position":3},"title":"Questions to be answered","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Aug-06 2:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Fifty common job interview questions. 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