Interview questions

[MissRabbitNeedsAHoliday]

So I have an interview on Friday for a new role within my current workplace. Our recruitment manager is holding the interview and I've heard she likes the ridiculous "if you were a fruit what would you be" type questions
So please wise mumsnetters hit me with your best (and most ridiculous) interview questions so I can try to be prepared!

1. What is your biggest weakness?

Why do you want this job (dont say Brexit)

I remember an interview I had for vodafone call centre. He wanted to do a role play. We had to pretend we were in M&S, I was the store assistant and he was a customer returning shoes that had ripped after a year. He was ranting and shouting and adamant he deserved a refund...pretty soon I was like I dont care, i dont want this job anymore!!

Thank you! I'm not great at interviews so hoping to think of as many questions to practise before hand. @45KurriKawari that sounds awful, I think I would have left!

It was awful but made me realise neither the place nor the job was for me

I work in sales and regularly got the 'sell me this pencil' type questions which are shite.

Here are some cringy ones:

If you were an animal, what would you be
What are you most proud of
How would your friends describe you
Describe yourself with 3 positive and 3 negative words
Where do you see yourself in 5 years

If you were an animal, what would you be
Oh god its these I'm dreading, I can think of nothing here I can say without wanting the ground to swallow me up!

How about these answers:

Owl - because I’ll be having a hoot of a time
Whale - same but a whale of a time

You are welcome

At least your place doesn’t use the STARR method of interviewing. It’s all a bag of steaming piss anyway.
Good luck, hope you get the job

What you want to get across in the interview is why you are good for the role and how these skills etc will beat the competition.

Think about your USP in terms of 2-3 bullet points.

Then pad it out with proper examples.

With that structure in mind, if you get a left field fruit/animal question, think of the thing that illustrates any of the bullet points the closest. e.g. I would be a raspberry because I build relationships at all levels [boak] or a hyena because I am team player [poo] whilst keeping a straight face

Read the job spec carefully especially the qualities of the candidate. Then make sure you give examples of why you are the sort of creature that has those sterling traits.

Thanks everyone, the interview went well with only one stupid question! So just need to sit and wait. I read the job spec last night and tried to base my answers around that so fingers crossed.

Good to hear that. So what was the stupid question?

If you could change one thing about the business what would it be?

How do you like to be managed?

Oops too late!
Interested to know what the silly question was...

If you were a crayon what colour would you be? I went for blue - cool, calm and collected Total cringe moment!