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!

I would take a phosphate enema.

It would help them with the amount of shit coming from their arses.

I’d take a giant dildo and tell them it’s because I’m
abit of a dick at times

Take a box of Celebrations or similar, shows you're a caring, sharing, team player type 😄

Please do this OP 😁

I've been conducting a lot of interviews recently. I've never asked anyone to bring an object in but I do have a few light ice breaker questions that mean we get to know them a bit better.
We end up chatting about all sorts for a few minutes before we start asking the 'interview' questions. Interviewees tend to be nervous by nature.
I find if we do this first, it ends up like a more relaxed chat about the role and their skills than a formal, awkward interview where people trip over their own tongues because they're nervous.
It might just be something like that.
Until this thread, I'd have said there was no wrong answer to any of the questions, but anyone who got really snarky or appeared to be eye rolling at them wouldn't get the job.
I'm fortunate enough to work in an office where there is a great culture and people get on well for the most part. I wouldn't hire someone who got the hump over a question. It sounds like a recipe for drama.
Don't overthink it, OP.

I’d take a handmade ceramic cup, and talk about how I’m creative and a glass (cup) half full kind of person…. All lies.

So weird! Hmm box of heroes or celebrations, to show your biggest strength and your greatest weakest.
Depending on the box, because your a such a hero/ has the ability to predict the future, and you know... chocolate😂

Until this thread, I'd have said there was no wrong answer to any of the questions, but anyone who got really snarky or appeared to be eye rolling at them wouldn't get the job.

To be fair, the eye rollers may well be turning down the job. An interview is also a chance for the candidate to decide if they would want to work for the company.

😂 at the dog lab comments
I mean I am a bit of a push over but as I have four children, I kind of do need lots of hours. So I've often worked 6 days a week, employers definitely see me coming 😂 but I'm committed and hard working
I was also offered a job somewhere else yesterday but when the call came in about this interview, it seemed like a good idea to keep all options open but no I don't actually need it
And I suppose that's a good thing because I don't imagine slapping a dildo on the table will go well 😂

An empty ice bucket.

"I intended to bring some ice, but I sold it to an eskimo."

An axe... because I hate stupid questions and scenarios and I put my axe to use.
Next question?

@Nanny0gg we found that it didn't always work just fine, in our particular field.
Sometimes I ended up people in my teams that had been marvellous in interview but just couldn't deliver in real life. I got frustrated with it.
it wasn’t just social workers and other care staff either. I was starting a new team and appointed an admin officer, who seemed amazing and on the ball, but did next to fuck all in the job and set the team development back at least a year, plus made us all look like shit.

a crystal, becuase you are multifacetted lol

Once got asked to take my favourite biscuit to an interview.
Took Thomas Fudge dark chocolate florentines
didn't get the job
they kept the rest of the packet

& went bust within a year 😁

Do you have a cuddly toy of a labrador puppy...

Take a catalogue:

tell them you're multi faceted and this adaptable and able.

Equally you could lose some talent holding castings, when people are just not extraverts.

We have strategy days at my work where no one does well in roleplay telephone conversations, but we all deal with clients very well, it's completely different when it's a real client.

A t shirt that says Never Mind the Bollocks

How about sewing box, with thread, buttons, safety pins, ribbon, glittery patches etc.

You can say that it represents your ability to mend things that need fixing, make things more robust and secure, improve the look and feel of things, and create something light, fun and enjoyable when needed.

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A box of laxatives to show you're always regular?

Take a toilet roll because their idea of an interview is shit.

A photo of you doing something with a group of other people (something worthy, not sunbathing). You need to be looking happy and keen! Maybe wearing something that makes you stand out from the others a bit.

Off topic but it reminded me: my daughter once applied for a posh job where one of the questions on the application form was "How would your mother describe you?" I had fun with that one!

You need to binge watch taskmaster for ideas.

What fresh hell is this?

I was once asked in an interview "If you were a biscuit, what would you be?" - I assume this sort of question is to judge how you react when put on the spot with something unexpected, but even still...

@FloordrobeIsGoingToGetME
I would have said exactly that. But one of the small little sewing kits you get in hotel rooms. Easy, lightweight enough to always have in your bag and gets you out of a pinch quick enough. Can be used to mend. Needle can be used to puncture things, thread can be used to tie things etc ...