Job Interview Adventurer Mugs

'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.'

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

'Think of this as a window of opportunity.'

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

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

"What's your occupation?"

Corporate Ladder and Corporate Elevator

"Which part are you reading for?"

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

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

"The labor market is awaiting you!"

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

Infection Control Center. Now Hiring. I should have said "I'm not afraid of hard work" rather than "I don't mind getting my hands dirty."

'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.'

"How would you rate your toleration for risk?"

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

Now hiring.

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

'You're hired. Go figure.'

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

'Do you have an appointment?'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Job hoppers.

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

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

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?

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