- "Why are manhole covers round?"
- "If you were a color (or animal, song, number, appliance, car, etc.), what color (or animal, song, number, appliance, car, etc.) would you be?"
- "How many quarters would it take to make a stack as tall as the Empire State Building?"
- "How would your wife (or husband, or significant other) describe you?"
I help generate the interview questions used here at Pinnacol and I don't think any of our managers are going down this path. I don't think I'm spilling the beans when I let you know that we use behavioral interview questions which simply means we believe that what you have actually done in your current and past jobs is the best predictor of what you would do in the future. None of the odd questions listed above seem to be very job-related (unless there is a real job as a quarter-stacker!) and what my wife would tell you about me depends on the day and the length of my honey-do list. These types of questions seem intent on almost trapping people, leaving them guessing as to what the 'right' answer is. At Pinnacol we are simply trying to get to know you around a couple of key areas:
- Do you have the technical knowledge and abilities to do the job?
- If not, do you have the ability to learn the skills necessary to do the job?
- Are you going to be a fit for our culture that is based on multi-functional teams and an unyielding focus on customer satisfaction?
- What is your motivation for working and for pursuing the particular job we are interviewing you for?
- Are you going to live up to our company Shared Values of Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, Teamwork, and Innovation?
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