Recently I was interviewing a candidate for a sales role. We began with the introduction and I started with, “So what's your strength?”
He responded, “Well at my last job, they loved my lead generation method.”
Sounded interesting, so I followed up with, “What's your weakness?”
He said, “At my last job, I worked too much overtime!”
Now this repetitive mentioning of his previous job sounded weird. I finally asked, “Why did you leave your previous job?”
The candidate took a pause for a few seconds, it seemed as if he was recalling his tragic ending at his previous job. He smiled and revealed, “It wasn't me, it was them because they found someone younger and cheaper.”
I couldn't control it so I joked, “Sounds like a bad break up story!!!”
He laughed and added, “I still stalk them on LinkedIn to check if they are suffering without me.”
I just burst out laughing, it was a hilarious interview!!