What kind of animal are you?

Interviewers are using weird, wonderful and off the wall questions during interviews. These include what kind of animal are you? What kind of fruit and even what kind of cereal. So what kind of animal would you be and why? So in preparation for your next interview, don't worry about clinical issues think about some weird and wonderful question you may be asked. Nurses Job Hunt Article

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allnurses Guide

NurseCard, ADN

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

I'll bet that anyone who doesn't answer "I'd be a Labrador Retriever, because I'm loyal and

hardworking", doesn't get hired. YAWN.

My answer: A wombat. When the employer asks "Why a wombat?", my answer, "Because I

strive to be different, and I'll bet no one else has said 'Wombat' today."

End of interview. I don't get the job.

Music in My Heart

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I'm a raccoon.

Very curious, very social, but very hard to push around and willing to defend my space as needed... and dark rings under my eyes from being nocturnal.

Music in My Heart

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I'll bet that anyone who doesn't answer "I'd be a Labrador Retriever, because I'm loyal and

hardworking", doesn't get hired. YAWN.

My answer: A wombat. When the employer asks "Why a wombat?", my answer, "Because I

strive to be different, and I'll bet no one else has said 'Wombat' today."

End of interview. I don't get the job.

See, you'd be the one I hired...

Repetitiveness and canned answers drive me nuts... I'm trying to see something beyond the 2-D, flatness of the resume...

I figure, we're going to work together and spend hours and hours and hours of our lives together, let me see a little of WHO you are and not just WHAT you are.

Wombat, you're hired... unless perhaps I meet a 3-toed sloth or a platypus...

Cro-Magnon

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I've always associated myself to Frogs, turtles, and gorillas. I'm an extremely visual person, so out of curiosity I looked up what these animals represent symbolically.

Frogs have been used as good luck charms. People would give frog shaped pendants to people about to leave for a journey to keep them safe.

As a Celtic symbol the frog symbolized healing in connection with the rain or coming of water.

Turtles are seen as innocent, having few predators. They are considered Wise due to their longevity. In asian myth they represent cosmic order.

Gorillas are seen as noble creatures. They represent leadership but not the aggressive kind. The gorilla manages with temperance, understanding, compassion, and balance.

BrandonLPN, LPN

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I'd be a lion. A lion who eats dumb HR people who ask asinine questions.

Love it, Brandon!!

See, you'd be the one I hired...

Repetitiveness and canned answers drive me nuts... I'm trying to see something beyond the 2-D, flatness of the resume...

I figure, we're going to work together and spend hours and hours and hours of our lives together, let me see a little of WHO you are and not just WHAT you are.

Wombat, you're hired... unless perhaps I meet a 3-toed sloth or a platypus...

Haha, being different is lovely. But, remember, madwife said a chicken (which no one else said) and she didn't get hired.

I wanna know your opinion of a giraffe...am I hired?

Music in My Heart

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Haha, being different is lovely. But, remember, madwife said a chicken (which no one else said) and she didn't get hired.

I wanna know your opinion of a giraffe...am I hired?

Hmm, giraffe...

Long neck, purple tongue... sure, welcome aboard.

Actually, I'd want to know why a giraffe, and an honest answer like, "Because it's the first thing that popped into my head in response to this silly question." would be fine by me.

Personally, I'm not big into the metaphysical stuff and I think such questions are drivel... but I'm a very concrete thinker and I love to hear abstract replies.

hahaha, the purple tongue must be the part that gets me hired. I don't know, I have always liked giraffes. Very cool looking animal. I don't like them for some symbolic reason, I just thought they were graceful and cool looking.

So, we got a platypus, wombat, giraffe, chicken, blue whale, raccoon, I think someone said dog, lion, turtle, frog....quite the crew there. LOL

BostonTerrierLover, BSN, RN

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What a Zoo!:wacky:

I still want to know what the "correct" answer to the question is.

nurse671

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I would personally be a dog, if you treat me nice I'll be nice to you but if you are mean to me I'll bite you- But I won't say this to my interview.Maybe a chameleon because I can adapt well in the surrounding I'm in.