Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anyone else gets thrown by questions?
Examples for me are, having to come up with something on a course, especially that thing they do sometimes where everyone has to introduce themselves.
Interviews are difficult because I can never think of examples on the spot.
I even was thrown recently when asked in a situation when asked what my favourite song was.
These kind of things make me panic that I have to think of something quickly.
Yes.
I'm hopeless at interviews and have a worrying tendency to tell the/my truth.
I've recounted this before, but it is funny.
I went for an interview at an Anglican Cathedral and I was asked:
'What do you think the Church means to most people in society today' and I replied:
'I think it's irrelevant to most people'.
I am also completely unable to sell myself.
Any question puts me on the spot, especially if they involve memory.
I have been in similar situations. I have thought of two alternative responses to a question, knowing that the truthful one would shoot me in the foot, and still gone for the truth; dumb or honorable?
Martin said:dumb or honorable?
Exactly.
Job interviews just invite you to lie and in fact it's difficult to get through one by telling the truth (in my experience)...