3 Interview Questions Nobody Wants to Answer

Job interviews are stressful. While you can try to make them easier by
preparing what you want to say, doing research and doing practice interviews,
there are still some questions that nobody wants to hear.

Resume.io, a resume writing service, asked 2,000 Americans which interview

questions they thought were the hardest to answer. Here are their three top
choices.

1. How many gas stations are there in the United States?

According to Statista, there were about 111,000 gas stations in America in
2016. However, most interviewers don't expect you to know this: they just want
to see how you think and find solutions to problems, maybe by guessing the
number of gas stations in each state and multiplying it by the number of states.

2. Sell me this pen!

This test was made famous by the 2013 movie The Wolf of Wall Street. The
best solution is not to try to sell the pen right away. Instead, ask questions and
find out what kind of person you're talking to, and why a pen might be
important to them — because you can only sell something if you know why
someone might want it!

3. Where do you see yourself in five years?

This is one of the most common interview questions, and 39% of people in the
survey said they had heard it. Companies want to know that you will still be
working for them and learning new skills in five years. So a great way to
answer this question is to say that you'd see yourself as a leader and expert in
the type of work the company does.

Discussion

1. Have you ever been asked any of the interview questions in the
article?
2. Do you find job interviews to be stressful? Why? Why not?
3. What questions do you often struggle with in interviews?
4. How do you usually prepare for interviews?
5. What advice would you give a friend who's preparing for a job
interview?
6. Do you think you'd make a good interviewer? Why? Why not?
7. If you were an employer, what qualities would you look for in
applicants?
8. When was the last time you tried learning a new skill?
9. Do you think you'd make a good leader? Why? Why not?
10. I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about
yourself than the person learned about you. — William Shatner.
What do you make of this statement?