How to cope with the situation calmly

The job interview – for most people, a date in the calendar that they want to get over with as quickly as possible. You can prepare well for most questions in advance, because questions about your personal weaknesses and strengths or your professional career are commonplace in job interviews.
Unless your interviewers use unusual questions, which are usually designed to test your reaction or to draw you out. The correctness of the answers is usually a secondary matter.
These questions are mainly intended to test your creativity or your character. In order to give you some clarity about rather untypical personnel questions, we have compiled the 10 most bizarre questions for you:

1. How do you weigh an elephant without scales?

Of course, this one isn’t really about finding a solution, it’s about your creativity! Show the recruiter what kind of inventiveness you have in you.

2. How many smarties fit into a smart car?

In this question, the recruiter is clearly interested in your imagination. How good an estimator are you? How much do you let a question like this throw you off your game?

3. If you have your cell phone set to silent and yet it suddenly rings really loudly, what would you say to me about it?

How do you deal with unpleasant situations? A question like this is just to find out if you can confidently maneuver your way out of unexpected, perhaps embarrassing situations.

4. Do you prefer to ride a chain carousel rather than a roller coaster?

The question is asked to find out possible character traits. Is the applicant a bright and risk-taking person or rather quiet and introverted?

5. Let’s say you are a chef in a restaurant and your team has been selected for a TV cooking duel. How do you prepare your team and how do you put pressure on your competitors?

This question is asked to find out information about the applicant’s teamwork and leadership skills. Also, you want to find out how the applicant deals with competition and how fair he is in dealing with competitors.

6. Name three Nobel Prize winners!

With this question one would like to test the general knowledge of the candidate. How interested are you in world affairs?

7. Are you a whirlwind or do you control chaos?

Another personality question. What character traits make you stand out? Do you like to relinquish responsibility and devote yourself to creativity, or are you a control-loving person? What role would you take on in a team?

8. Would you introduce the 48-hour week with us?

This question expects a resounding “no.” It is aimed at your willingness to work.

9. would you rather be a forester or a teacher?

Are you more introverted and enjoy the peace and quiet of work? Or would you rather describe yourself as extroverted and eager to communicate?

10. If you could be a superhero, which superpower would you choose?

What characteristics fascinate you? What skills would you like to have to iron out your own weaknesses? Again, the hiring manager wants to know more about your personality as well as your creativity.

Are you expecting an interview in the near future? Then StepStone wishes you every success and all the superpowers you need to master the trickiest questions and tests!