I said the most ridiculous thing in an interview

[Boomerang99]

They asked me how to create an effective team and my mind went blank so I said I would bring them cookies.

I'm not getting the job am I? Still cannot believe I said that!

@FortunesFave

Ha ha! I once said "I don't make mistakes" when asked how I'd fix a problem for a client if I'd made a mistake in my work.

When the guy said "Oh, everyone makes some mistakes" I said "Nope, not me!" because by that point I felt like a twat anyway!

I'm still reading through the thread but this made me laugh!

I was asked in an interview to be a teacher, why I wanted to become one… I said I didn’t really, but the hours would work well with my kids.

Needless to say, I didn’t get the job.

I once asked an applicant “ What did you do to prepare for this interview?”
Expecting a reply along the lines of “ Looked at and researched blah blah blah” but got
“Well I laid my clothes out and I had a bath and an early night”
There was a looong silence. While we looked at each other ….

Good luck OP, let us know how you get on (when you do eventually hear!)
Who doesn’t like cookies?

I remember interviewing a candidate for an admin role in the civil service years ago.

Our standard question was 'would you like to tell us about something in the news that's caught your eye recently?'

Well, it was until one time, there was a silence and the candidate replied 'No, thank you'.

We rephrased it for the next candidate. 'Please tell us etc etc...'.

My most recent interview was in the summer and I promised cake. Started my lovely new job a fortnight later!

Maybe you should come and line manage me!

I once went for an interview in the diplomatic field, having been called many months after sitting a competitive exam for the role. I was asked about what I had learned on my study year abroad in Paris, and launched into an expansive, unsubstantiated, and unrehearsed discourse on how French people are rude and closed to foreigners. That was in 2006, and I still lie awake at night dying at the memory. I didn’t get the job. Hope this helps

OMG - crying with laughter at some of these. Good luck OP.

My husband once went for an interview where they asked him for an example of a time he overcame a difficult situation.

For some unknown reason he started talking about our miscarriage and then got choked up mid interview. The thing is that he actually had really recently had a really difficult situation at work that he had overcome but for some reason this is all that came to mind. (He didn’t get the job)

I went for a Saturday job in a jewellers when I was at school and the woman asked me to sell her a watch she’d laid on the counter.

I absolutely nailed it. Even unconfident 17 year old me knew I’d nailed it. Frosty woman even smiled and said so as she pretended to put the watch on.

Then I said “Oh you don’t actually have to put it on Did you pick that because it was the most hideous watch you sell?”

She didn’t laugh when she said “No, it was the easiest to put out because it’s my watch”

I didn’t get the job.

@Sunshine1235 your poor husband! So something I would do. Really hard to pull yourself back once you start talking.

I was once asked to describe myself in one word...... Pisshead" yup!

Cookies...yes please. Please be my boss!

I love your answer, it's honest and genuine and probably not the answer other candidates would have given.

If it makes you feel better, I was once asked in interview what the companies fundamental principles were.

I had forgotten to look them up. So I blagged it. Looked it up after the interview and was so far off base you wouldn't believe. Still got offered the job!

The interviewer was chatting with me rather than asking questions. I made a comment and she corrected me. It wasn't a big deal, nothing to fail the interview over, and I tried, I really tried but I just couldn't stop myself. I corrected her back and told her she was wrong and why she was wrong.
I think the interview more or less terminated there and then.
My friend did get the job (deservedly because she's fab) and she left a few months,later because they couldn't give her enough work and it was taking up a lot of her time for no money. So maybe my big mouth didn't fail me after all. 😉

Friends dd went for an interview. Part of it entailed a maths test which she didn't do very well in. When questioned about it, she replied well that's because I spend a substantial part of my childhood in Hong Kong and instead of going to school I had to work in the Nike factory so I missed out on a lot of my education.
It wasn't true and she didn't get the job.

I'd hire you!

At least it was coherent. I had an interview recently and just got muddled up and lost my trail of thought. I must have said the word ‘feedback’ about five times in one long confused sentence.

OP I said a similar thing, when asked what my worst trait was or however they phrase it, I said I bring in too many biscuits. I got the job.

Very first interview, aged 16 and still at school but for a Saturday job in woolworths.

Was asked " why out of everyone else should you get the job"

I answered quite frankly and honestly "because I need the money"

Didn't get it.....wasn't that gutted, meant I got more time for horseriding!

@PennineWayinSlingbacks

I remember interviewing a candidate for an admin role in the civil service years ago.

Our standard question was 'would you like to tell us about something in the news that's caught your eye recently?'

Well, it was until one time, there was a silence and the candidate replied 'No, thank you'.

We rephrased it for the next candidate. 'Please tell us etc etc...'.

Why on earth would you ask something like that for an admin role?!?

I remember interviewing a candidate for an admin role in the civil service years ago. Our standard question was 'would you like to tell us about something in the news that's caught your eye recently?' Well, it was until one time, there was a silence and the candidate replied 'No, thank you'.
We rephrased it for the next candidate. 'Please tell us etc etc...'.

Why on earth would you ask something like that for an admin role?!?

Because it was about 1989 and that's how they did it then! Very little to do with job based competencies in those days.

I once said 'cheese' loads during an interview. I was talking about something that was relevant from my previous role which necessitated the use of the word cheese, maybe once - twice at the very most. But I was like Jive Bunny in there - I just couldn't stop saying it.

Eurgh, dying inside reliving it - WTF brain? CHEESE 🤦🏻‍♀️

I had an interview recently for a job in a charity, one I support. I got horribly over emotional in my 'bit' about why I wanted to work there. Not necessarily a bad thing in itself, but I really did take it to the far end of a fart. Still waiting to hear and mentally cringing a bit when I think about it.