This document provides a list of 10 funny answers given by job candidates during interviews that demonstrate a lack of self-awareness or inappropriate responses. The examples show candidates honestly admitting to being unreliable, wanting to steal clients for their own business, being unqualified to assess the interviewer's qualifications, asking inappropriate personal questions to the interviewer, and expressing interests like table tennis that are not relevant to the job. Overall, the examples highlight humorous but ill-advised responses that would undermine a candidate's chances of getting the job.
1. STRESSFUL DAY? READ OUR LIST
OF FUNNY ANSWERS BY
CANDIDATES
BY
Applicant Tracking System
2. Description
If I had to name two things which take the stress out of recruitment, then,
they have to be Applicant Tracking System and funny answers candidates
give during interviews.
3. 1. Honesty isn’t always the best policy
• Interviewer: What’s your worst quality?
• Candidate: I’m kind of unreliable!
• Interviewer: I appreciate the honesty, but dude! You just lost your job!
4. 2. Client-stealing
• Interviewer: Ok tell me why do you want this job?
• Candidate: I want to gain experience and build connections with clients to
start my own firm.
• Interviewer: I admire your curiosity and skill, but have you heard of
something called ethics?
5. 3. Overqualified
• Interviewer: Sorry, you are not qualified for this role.
• Candidate: Can I see your CV to check if you are qualified enough to judge
my abilities?
• Interviewer: I’m sorry, You aren’t qualified for that either.
6. 4. Can I ask you a question?
• Candidate: Can I ask you a question?
• Interviewer: Sure, go ahead
• Candidate: How much does your organization pay you to do these
interviews?
• Interviewer: Whatever it is, I’m definitely charging more for handling you.
7. 5. Real reason of taking a job
• Interviewer: How badly do you need this job?
• Candidate: Pretty badly; cigarettes are getting so very expensive
• Interviewer: Yeah, you are right (sympathetically)!
8. 6. I really need to know this about you
• Interviewer: Is there anything else I should know about you?
• Candidate: I oversleep and have trouble getting out of bed in the
morning.
• Interviewer: Is it! Good to know buddy! (Looks exasperated). You do know
this job is in the morning shift, don’t you?
9. 7. You see I know how to C
• Interviewer: Do you know C?
• Candidate: I don’t really know C, but I can fake it so the compiler thinks I
do.
• Interviewer: I like that; exactly what we want!
10. 8. Seems like a good option!
• Interviewer: Everything is fine…so, what do we do now?
• Candidate: Table tennis?
• Interviewer: Seriously?
11. 9. Was waiting to ask this question
• Interviewer: Do you have any questions?
• Candidate: Yes
• Interviewer: Go ahead
• Candidate: What if my degree turns out to be a fake in your background
checks.
• Interviewer: Hmm….you do know your way out, don’t you?
12. 10. Hobbies and Interests
• Interviewer: What are your hobbies?
• Candidate: I am interested in tall corporate ladies!
• Interviewer: Confused