Intended for:
This free training game intended to be a fun activity that will work well in a Job Interview skillscourse. Alternatively, you might find it useful in any situation where you want to encourage creative thinking.
Participants are asked to devise answers to some wacky questions that have allegedly been asked in real interviews.
Training course contents:
You can download a pack of materials for this free training game from the link at the bottom of this page. This contains…
- Instructions to help you run the training game
- PowerPoint Slide with four wacky interview questions
Resources Needed – PowerPoint Slide: Wacky Interview Slide.
Show PowerPoint Slide (available for free from the link at the bottom of this page) and explain that these are four questions that have allegedly been used in real job interviews.
Arrange participants into four teams.
Allocate each team one of the four questions and tell them to spend 5-10 minutes in their team discussing possible answers to the question.
At the end of this time ask a representative for each team to give their answer to their allocated question.
If you are using this training game as part of an interview skills training course you could lead a discussion about the merits of these questions in a job interview situation.
These two questions can help to get the discussion started?
a. How would you feel if you were asked one of these questions in real interview?
b. Do you think there is a place for questions like these in job interviews?
Objectives:
To experience unusual interview questions and to discuss whether they have value in a job interview situation and/or to encourage creative thinking.
