Taking an object to an interview

[Stickseas0n]

Okay, where do I start
I've just had a job interview confirmed and they've asked me to bring an object that best reflects my personality 😂
Never heard of this before
What does one bring? 🤔
Not strictly an AIBU but can I have some ideas please!

Jeeze!

ok I think this is just intended to be a bit light hearted and check you have social skills. As it’s retail and seasonal why not your favourite Christmas related thing with a story. Ie a family decoration/pudding bowl/ anything you’ve got a story for.

An old friend of mine, in an interview, handed her a pen and told her to sell it to them. They were trying to give subtle hints about the pen lid having holes and she panicked and said "if a child accidentally swallowed it, they could whistle for help" 🤣🤣🤣 she was mortified.

That's lived rent free in my head for over 20 years.

Baubles? 🎄🎄🎄

God, who do they think they are Google or something. 🙄

No idea really but I think I’d take something humorous (or sarcastic depending on how much I need the job).

I had this. We used to own chickens so I took and egg box along. It's just a device to get you talking really. You can make light hearted and can be a good icebreaker. It was actually good fun

It's only a seasonal position ... In a retail shop

Then they must be quite insane, and I'd take your valuable experience somewhere else

I would take in my 2 large dogs and my sewing machine, they reflect me quite well!

A labrador 😀

What on earth did you say when asked what your star sign was? I really think I would have got up and walked out. It would be best for all concerned. I'd never fit in at a place where they thought that was an appropriate interview question.

You could take a bill and say needing to pay your bills is the biggest incentive anyone can have to get out of bed and go to work.

That is hilarious!!

I'd cancel the interview - can't be doing with that kind of shite.

Take a labrador?? 😁

One of my old workplaces was really fond of teambuilding crap. at one of our team away days we had to sit in a circle and explain in a sentence what made us passionate about the workplace and what made us apply for that organisation. I panicked and just blurted out the truth “because i sent out 36 CVs and you were the only people who interviewed me”.

It did not go down well with my line manager but a few of my colleagues said quietly to me afterwards that they agreed and it made a change from the guff about being devoted to our service users that was expected.

Haha exactly what I thought!

Your phone? 😂 then you could scroll through your photo stream to pass the time 😂

@Parry5timesbeforedeath I'm in stitches at this. 😂

If this is The Entertainer, I know someone who took bubbles and got the job x

Unless you really need the job, I wouldn't go for the interview. It would put me right off the company.

Ask chatgpt for inspiration:

quirky personalities: rubber chicken; novelty pen
serious: notepad; text book

I've just been made redundant and I'm dreading looking for a new job if this is the kind of bullshit that goes on!

Glitter… because you have a sparkling personality and as everyone knows a little bit of sparkle can make everyone feel better 🙄 or some crap like that 😂

Take a book.

For me, off the top of my head, I'd go either with Derek Parfit's On What Matters (Volume 2), or with an old favourite, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (German/English facing pages edition).

Either way, I'd be interested in their reaction.

Everyone will have their own choice. But, anyway, taking a book your interviewer may not have read, while you have, will allow you to take charge and talk about what you want, rather than allowing yourself to be led to places you may not want to go.

I will bring a cake beater - explain it’s a workhorse when it comes to baking and it’s quite possibly the most important and most used thing in baking - without it - impossible. 😂