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Hiring managers occasionally like to test a candidate\u2019s problem-solving skills and encourage them to demonstrate examples of logical thinking. We\u2019ve covered how to answer\u00a0common interview questions, but what happens when you\u2019re asked something more unconventional?<\/p>\n
Here are a few of our favourite unconventional\u00a0interview\u00a0questions, and how to answer them\u2026<\/p>\n
How many basketballs can you fit onto a bus?<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of our favourite answers\u2026<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n How many traffic lights are there in London?<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of our favourite answers\u2026<\/p>\n How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of our favourite answers\u2026<\/p>\n A man pulls up to a hotel in a silver car, and immediately realizes he\u2019s bankrupt. What happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of our favourite answers\u2026<\/p>\n Explain a database in three sentences to your eight year old nephew?<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of our favourite answers\u2026<\/p>\n If you could be any type of biscuit, what type of biscuit would you be, and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of our favourite answers\u2026<\/p>\n Whatever the question may be, most unconventional interviews don\u2019t really have set right or wrong answers. They are meant to demonstrate how a candidate would react if a difficult problem came up, not to mention how they would cope under pressure.<\/p>\n Deceptively, they aren\u2019t intended to take too much time. Instead of trying to come up with the perfect answer, just be creative and come to your own conclusion.<\/p>\n As long as you can demonstrate how you got there, you\u2019ve passed the test.<\/p>\n Finally, how many recruiters does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: too many\u2026<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Of course, there are many different\u00a0types of interview questions\u00a0\u2013 and not all of them are intended to\u00a0throw you a curveball.<\/p>\n So whether you\u2019re looking on advice how to answer\u00a0questions about your career goals,\u00a0competency questions\u00a0or\u00a0character questions\u00a0\u2013 we\u2019ve got you covered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How many recruiters does it take to change a lightbulb? Hiring managers occasionally like to test a candidate\u2019s problem-solving skills and encourage them to demonstrate examples of logical thinking. We\u2019ve covered how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More interview questions<\/strong><\/h3>\n