Job Interview Adventurer Gifts

'Mr. Whipple, what other qualifications do you have - apart from your quite excellent Donald Duck impression?'

"I caution everyone to avoid taking the first field reporter job that comes along."

'Believing any filming experience may help launch acting careers, some even stage their appearances before closed circuit cameras.'

"Don't get the wrong idea about those years in a mental institution. I was employed there."

'What do you mean, you're tired of the rat race?'

'Think of this as a window of opportunity.'

Prospective hospital employee: 'I do sutures. Are there any openings?'

"Which part are you reading for?"

"What's your occupation?"

"Would you like something you're under qualified for, or something you're overqualified for?"

"Thank you, Mr. Mulvaney, but what we're really looking for is someone with talent."

"The labor market is awaiting you!"

"How would you rate your toleration for risk?"

"I guess I'll see you around Frank."

'We're looking for an award-winning sales professional. Those are trophies. You're overqualified.'

'Next time you want to cheat and use someone else's resume, I suggest you do more than scratch out his name and put yours above it.'

'My strength lies in my ability to deny my weaknesses.'

"You're overqualified. Could you dumb it down a little?"

'You're hired. Go figure.'

'Do you have an appointment?'

"...and before that, I was an embryo."

Job hoppers.

"On your application it says you've been a circus clown, an orthopaedic surgeon and a molecular biologist."

'I hear you're looking for bounty hunters...'

We don't have a budget to redo the last guy's business cards, door placard, and so on, so would you mind assuming his identity in the meantime?

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

'Running away from the circus to join the world of accountancy isn't working out as I expected. . .'

A candidate makes their greatest impact on an interviewer in the first few minutes...

'We're not hiring. The company is just giving me some experience conducting interviews.'

"Last question. Where do you see yourself thirty seconds from now?"

"Yes, I suppose attention seeking may be considered by some as an asset, but frankly we need more than that."

'Refusing to fill in a psychometric test reveals a lot about you, Jones.'

'After graduation, I plan on working in warrantless surveillance for the CIA. How about you?'