Make us laugh - applying for a job.

[SouthernNorthernGirl]

OK, so it's part of an application (yes, really!) that I will be sending via email.
I've been racking my brains, and I'm utterly stuck. I have a very dry sense of humour, and think that's mostly possible during conversations - not so easy as a one way thing.
Ignoring how this is, please help me!

I second the high starting salary.

I like the owl. And the limerick idea, maybe referencing the company.
I don't like the question either, and it's probably not the most difficult on there either.

Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to stupid' house.

Knock knock
Who's there?
The chicken.

Good luck

Yep - another one for high salary and the ambition to be CEO within 18mths

Send them this

JustABitOfUncertainty I love that idea!

I vote for "knock knock"

Goldfish Not sure if they'll get it though (not UK based)

How did the constipated mathematician solve his problem?

He worked it out with a pencil.

BA-doom-tish!

I wouldn't want to work for anyone who didn't find this funny

www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/63ei6g/job_interviews/

This is PERFECT!

TheWild

I'd be looking hard at the company as a whole. To prioritise something like that in the initial stages of the hiring process would throw up huge red flags for me

Me too.

I know jobs are difficult to come by. I think a lot of managers are taking the piss and massaging their own egos by making prospective candidates act like performing seals. It's such nonsense.

Also, I heard things like three interviews for an admin position. It's getting ridiculous!!

Reminds me of this Monty Python sketch:-

Just send a funny cat gif.

Really not a good question. Humour can easily turn into offence or cringing.

I was once asked to tell a joke at an interview.

It could be a way of finding out what your unconscious bias/prejudice is, and what attitudes you find acceptable. If you tell and Irish joke, you're indicating that you think it's appropriate to make fun of a nationality. If you tell a blond joke, are you saying that you make generalisations based on people's appearance? Are political jokes acceptable to you?

Personally, I never make jokes in person - I only make them online. I find it's what I'm best e-quipped for.

Personally, I never make jokes in person - I only make them online. I find it's what I'm best e-quipped for

LOL! I see what you did there

That kind of reminds me of an apocryphal story I heard about entrants to Cambridge (pretty sure, might have been Oxford, anyway...)
Interview day - sitting outside the office waiting to be interviewed and the prospective students are all nervous. The first one comes out and says "Gosh, that was difficult - they offered me the choice of answering 3 pretty hard questions or one REALLY hard question - I chose the 3 pretty hard questions, it was a bit rough"

So the next candidate went in, and sure enough, was given the same choice but chose the one REALLY hard question.

The interviewers said:
"which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
The candidate thought about it for a bit and then said, authoritatively "The chicken".
The interviewers then asked "why?"
And the student said "Ah-ah, you said only ONE really hard question!"

Apparently that student got a place.

But I honestly don't know if it's true or not! (Might make you laugh though - don't know about your prospective employers!)

Highbrow joke:
How many economists does it take to change a lightbulb?

None - the invisible hand does it.

Is there a vibe to the job description you can match?

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Your new Affiliate Director.

I would withdraw immediately if I were asked to do this. It could be my dream job, with a six figure salary and the most flexible working conditions imaginable, and I would still not want to work for the sort of people who wanted me to do this.

Agreed alltouchedout

There are some fantastic creative suggestions here. I especially like the pay suggestion and knock-knock ones, but I am against the whole idea of asking people to do this.

It would be one thing thinking you didn't get the job because someone was better-qualified, had a more solid work history, etc; quite another to think you missed out on a job because you told the wrong joke. Unless the job is to be a comedian, of course.

Double vodka, that's a good idea I reckon.

I have been asked the biscuit question
A friend was asked to sing because he listed various classes as hobbies but I think that's fair enough to check he wasn't lying. He said that suddenly being asked to sing in an interview was a bit odd though.

An applicant once was required
To cause laughter to maybe be hired
So she made up a ditty
Both clever and witty
So she'd be seen to be fun and desired

"If you want to work here then you must
Make us laugh and guffaw fit to bust"
Said she "I must pass,
stick the job up your arse"
And they never saw her for dust