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forwardslash  ·  3154 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Levity is the key

    Levity. If you can take a very serious question and use it as a way to make your interviewer laugh, you will be remembered.

This is so true. When I was looking for jobs years ago I ended up interviewing for a minimum wage position at a call center help desk for Redbox. During the interview I was asked, "What does sales mean to you?" I ended up saying that, "sales was not a jedi mind trick, you can't just wave your hand and say 'You will buy this'". This made the interviewer laugh and I ended up getting a position in their highest paying contract where I eventually worked my way as high as I could without going in to management.