Kids say the darndest things? Try hiring managers.

Large companies have been implementing innovative -- read oddball -- interviewing styles for years. But lately, more small businesses have been doing it, too.

The goal is to bring on creative thinkers who think fast on their feet, said experts. And in this time of shrinking sales and economic uncertainty, employees who think out of the box are crucial to small business owners.

So instead of boring interview questions like: "Where do you see yourself in five years?" some job interviewees might hear:

"If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out?" That question came from Goldman Sachs, according to Glassdoor.com, an online career company.

"The real purpose behind asking questions like this is really to determine how a job candidate thinks through a tough problem," said Samantha Zupan, a Glassdoor.com spokesperson.

Small businesses are keeping apace with equally strange questions and hiring tactics, too, which range from audition-style interviews to interviews where job seekers are allowed to toss back cocktails.

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If you had to find Lex Fonteyne a lifelong love interest who does
not have or want kids, does not drink or want to change him, lives
in the Chicago area and scarfs Arby's roast beef sandwiches how
would you do it?

Well that is definitely different....

Ummmm.....I'll take "High Class Hookers" for 1000 Alex

I forgot to say and doesn't cost him anything....

I definitely want to see the answers to this one....

Another way to discriminate against the unwanted,, legitimately

I gave it my best shot Lex :( ....lol

not a problem at all, three easy steps

1 stage a billie piper look-a-like contest
2 screen the contestants and eliminate all mothers
3 give the winner a lobotomy

Finally! Someone with a legitimate answer!

Thanks, ese!

I don't see it that way. This weeds out the boring, droll, and unimaginative while opening new doors for people who didn't rate the highest in their class but think outside the box. Boring is, well boring!

we dont go to work to entertain people though, we go to do a job and to earn a living

this is one very SUBJECTIVE way of 'testing' people and another way to legitimately weed out others under the GUISE of caring about whats 'boring'

I went to college for acting/physics and enjoy creating table top games, I write short stories and play 4 instruments, I think these questions are absolutely STUPID.

Its make believe creativity, if you want someone to demonstrate problem solving skills you do not make up some fantasy problem with no real solutions. 4 year olds have a great way of being creative, but they tend to be terrible at solving real world problems.

REAL solutions are what you need not how to get out of a blender you are too short to actually get out of . . . . well lets give him/her a frustrating puzzle he cannot possibly solve and see how creative and how frustrated he/she gets trying to solve it, lets do all of this at an interview where he/she will be nervous in the first place, YAY.

Idiotic.


(BTW Id send a text to my alcoholic friend that there are margaritas in the kitchen, he would come running and get me outa the blender! YAY)

Anybody remember "Total Quality Management".

continued . . . then id go find a circus and be the worlds smallest man!

Think that answer would land me the job!>?

I would knock myself over into someone else's drink and live vicariously through them........LMAO.....dear sir or madam have you been feeling not quite like yourself.....maybe feeling a little possessed???

Reminds me of The evil dead, lol.

LMAO but effective

Depends on what your job title is

Suppose some azzwipe with a blender starts asking you job interview
questions bout how you'd macgiver your way out of a 20 foot tall
wasp nest?

Interviewee: "I'd just get up and leave the interview without saying
anything."

You're HIRED!