Monthly Archives: July 2010

When I was in my final year of high school, I remember that in English class one day the teacher handed me back a paper I had written and it had a B+ on it. While there were a lot of classes that I would have been incredibly happy if I received this grade in, English was not one of them. In fact, with the exception of a horrible play I had written for one English class, I had not received a grade of less than an A- in any English class for years. I decided that I needed to meet with the English teacher and go over this. After all, I figured that something must be seriously wrong.

Atypical questions are in fact quite common in job interviews and play a major role in deciding upon the candidate. So, what are atypical questions? Questions that are not directly related to your qualifications or field of work and are meant rather to probe your qualities and attributes are atypical questions.

Like every other skill, quality, or attribute, self-confidence too improves under certain conditions and fades away in others. Being jobless, or being continually rejected in interviews, can severely dampen one's spirit and hurt his or her confidence.