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    #11
    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    are you any good in tribunals ?




    I have become an expert
    Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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      #12
      Originally posted by moorfield View Post
      Following on from last night's Apprentice, what's the most bizarre question you have faced in an interview for a contract gig ?
      A former colleague got asked something like "How many taxi companies are there operating in Nottingham?" when applying for a job as a BA once.
      If you find this post offensive, please insert "Chan" before and "tho" after, then it should be OK.

      Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being - Elvis Costello

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        #13
        Originally posted by Chantho View Post
        A former colleague got asked something like "How many taxi companies are there operating in Nottingham?" when applying for a job as a BA once.
        Very similar to the "number of blind piano tuners in New York" question.

        It's a good question imho.

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          #14
          Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
          On the other side my favourite question to attractive new girlies is to ask them if they have ever slept with their boss.
          how many admitted to it?
          Eeyore was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say "How do you do" in a gloomy manner to Pooh.
          "And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
          Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to felt at all how for a long time."

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            #15
            Originally posted by kali View Post
            how many admitted to it?
            Still interviewing
            Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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              #16
              Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
              Still interviewing
              Eeyore was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say "How do you do" in a gloomy manner to Pooh.
              "And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh.
              Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to felt at all how for a long time."

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                #17
                Why should we hire you?

                Because I work hard, and I'm a really nice guy....
                ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
                  Still interviewing
                  IT manager in a place in Leeds was interviewing a year or so ago for a secretary. According to the CVs, there was only one choice but he had to go through the motions so he interviewed two candidates.

                  He hired the busty blonde rather than the obvious middle aged experienced bird

                  'I can teach the new girl how to be a secretary, but I wouldn't have been able to teach the other one how be good-looking'






                  (\__/)
                  (>'.'<)
                  ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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                    #19
                    "What are your salary expectations?"

                    and re. my 8080 assembler experience "What brand of computers were you assembling?"


                    "How would you go about designing a home central heating system?"
                    - Brilliant timing as I'd designed and installed my own system just a couple of years previously.......

                    RS

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by RSoles View Post
                      "What are your salary expectations?"
                      High, seeing as you pay your own

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