The document discusses critical thinking and reasoning skills that are valued by recruiters. It provides examples of unusual questions asked in interviews to assess a candidate's ability to think creatively and logically. These "outside the box" questions have no obvious answers and test how candidates approach problems. One example question involved choosing which of three people waiting at a bus stop to offer a ride to in a two-seater car. The candidate who was hired had an answer that selflessly helped all three people rather than just one. Recruiters hope to find innovative problem solvers who can boost a company's productivity through divergent and multi-cultural thinking.

2. Genius is one percent
inspiration and ninety-
nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

3. THOMAS ALVA EDISON FAILED THOUSAND TIMES BUT HE
DIDN’T COUNT IT AS HIS FAILURES. HE QUOTED TO HIS
FAILURES AS :
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas A. Edison
WHY IT HAPPENED?
IT WAS ONLY BECAUSE OF HIS
CRITICAL THINKING

4. ISNT IT AMAZING !!! THAT WE ARE
ABLE TO TALK WITH THE PEOPLE
WHO ARE MILLIONS OF DISTANCE
AWAY FROM US???
SO, LETS THANK TO MR .ALEXANDER GRAHAM
BELL WHO IN HIS PLAY FOUND A TELEPHONE AND
MADE OUR LIFE SO EASY…

5. NOW WHAT ABOUT THE QUESTION IF WE WERE IN THE
PLACE OF NEWTON, UNDER THE APPLE TREE. HAPPILY
THINKING OUR GOOD FATE, WE WOULD HAVE EATEN THE
APPLE
LET’S ASK SOME TIPS FROM MR.NEWTON HOW BY
SIMPLY SITTING UNDER AN APPLE TREE, HE FOUND THE
GRAVITATIONAL FORCE????

6. DEFINITION OF CRITICAL REASONING:
Disciplined, self-directed thinking . .
OR
“ (Thinking) . . . which exemplifies the perfections of
thinking. . .”

7. IN EVERY DAY LANGUAGE
•Thinking “outside” the box
•Thinking about thinking
•“Unlimited” thinking
• Divergent thinking

8. Critical thinking helps us develop:
• Intellectual Humility
• Intellectual Autonomy
• Intellectual Integrity
• Intellectual Courage
• Intellectual Perseverance
• Confidence in Reason
• Intellectual Empathy
• Fair mindedness
. . . traits important to the development of a
multi-cultural world view and the
diminishing of irrational thought!

9. • KEEP AN OPEN MIND
•THEY ARE VERY OBSERVANT
•IDENTIFY KEY ISSUES AND RAISE QUESTIONS
•OBTAIN RELEVANT FACTS
•EVALUATE THE FINDINGS AND FORM JUDGEMENTS

10. • AMBIQUITY : The presence of two meaning.
•ASSUMPTIONS: something taken to be true without a proof or a
demonstration or one’s belief
My belief is:
I m d best

11. •VALUES: can be defined as those things that are
important to or valued by someone.
•EMOTIONS: A mental state that arises
spontaneously rather than through conscious
effort and is often accompanied by physiological
changes; a feeling: the emotions of
joy, sorrow, reverence, hate, and love. It alters
the decision making

12. •LANGUAGE
How is language used in decision
making
•To inform
•To explain
•To persuade
•ARGUMENT
•A claim used to persuade others as to whether something is
true or false or if something should or should not be done

13. •FALLACY
•An incorrect pattern of reasoning
•Eg: we assume the statement true based on the evidence
that others believe it

14. Critical reasoning is the part of critical thinking ; about why is
this, like this ,what can be like this, more about what better can
be done more like this. It helps an individual to make decision
making and problem solving

17. WHY WE STRESS FOR CRITICAL REASONING IN RECRUITMENT
Hence recruiters want to select the people who are having
Problem Companies always selects
solving innovative people who are
Critical
reasoning talented enough to boost up
Decision the company’s productivity.
making

18. EXPLANATION ALONE WLL MAKE US BORE SO LETS
BRAIN STORM WITH SOME QUESTIONS
Think out of the Box.. 5 beautiful HR Questions !!!
Here are some of the typical HR questions asked
to find out if the candidates have "out of box"
thinking capability
Question 1:
"What will you do if I run away with your sister?"
The candidate who was selected answered " I will not
get a better match for my sister than you, sir."

19. Question 2:
Interviewer (to a student girl
candidate) - What if one
morning you woke up &
found that you were pregnant ?
I will be very excited and take a day off, to celebrate
with my husband. (Normally an unmarried girl will be
shocked to hear this, but she managed it well. Why
should I think it in the wrong way, she said later when
asked.)

20. Question 3:
Interviewer: He ordered a cup
of coffee for the candidate. Coffee
arrived and was kept before the
candidate, then he asked "What is
before you?“
Candidate: Instantly replied "Tea" and got selected.
(You know how and why did he say "TEA" when he
knows very well that coffee was kept before him?.
Answer: The question was "What is before you U? (-
alphabet). Reply was "TEA" T (- alphabet).

21. Question 4:
You are driving alone in your car on
a wild, stormy night, it's raining
heavily, when suddenly you pass by a bus stop, and
you see three people waiting for a bus:
An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
An old friend who once saved your life.
The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to,
knowing very well that there could only be one
passenger in your two seater car?

22. This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once
actually used as part of a job application.
* You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to
die, and thus you should save her first; * or you could
take the old friend because he once saved your life, and
this would be the perfect chance to ! pay him back. *
However, you may never be able to find your perfect
mate again...
The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had
no trouble coming up with his answer. Guess what was
his answer?

23. He simply answered:
"I would give the car keys to my Old friend and let him take the
lady to the hospital. I would stay behind and wait for the bus with
the partner of my dreams."
Sometimes, we gain more if we are able to give up our stubborn
thought limitations. Never forget to "Think Outside of the Box."

24. Question 6:
The interviewer asked the candidate "This
is your last question of the interview. Please
tell me the exact position of the center of this table where u
have kept your files."
Candidate confidently put one of his finger at some point at the
table and said that this was the central point at the table.
Interviewer asked "how did you decide that this is the central point
of this table?", then he answers quickly that "Sir you are not
supposed to ask any more question, as it was the last question as
you promised .....
And hence, he was selected as because of his quick-wittedness.

25. This is what Interviewer expects
from the Interviewee. ....
So think
outside the
box…