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There are No Stupid Questions...

THERE ARE NO STUPID QUESTIONS... BUT DO YOU HAVE A SMART ANSWER? Intelligence The first quality that employers look for 76% of the productivity and contribution of an employee is determined by his or her level of intelligence. WHY DO TOP EMPLOYERS ASK SUCH HARD AND WEIRD INTERVIEW QUESTIONS? Critical Thinking Jeff Bezos walks into your office and says, "You can have a million dollars to launch your best entrepreneurial idea. "If you were to get rid of one state in the US, which would it be and why?" What is it? AMAZON Jeff Bezos THE REAL QUESTION How strong is your ability to plan? CEO of Amazon.com FORRESTER George Colony CEO of Forrester Research THE REAL QUESTION Image provided by http://www.nytimes.com Can you set priorities? "How many quarters would you need to reach the height of the Empire State building?" "Calculate the angle of two clock pointers when the time is 11:50" JETBLUE David Barger President and Chief Executive Officer of JetBlue Image provided by http://www.mvgazette.com BANK OF AMERICA Brian Moynihan Bank of America CEO Image provided by http://www.boston.com THE REAL QUESTION How good is your quantitative reasoning? "If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out?" "You are a head chef at a restaurant and your team has been selected to be on Iron Chef. How do you prepare your team for the competition and how do you leverage the competition for your restaurant?" ACCENTURE THE REAL QUESTION Can you get the job done? GOLDMAN SACHS Pierre Nanterme Accenture's Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs Image provided by http://dealbook.nytimes.com Image provided by http://www.accenture-blogpodium.ni THE REAL QUESTION How well do you problem solve? "Why are manhole covers round?" GOOGLE THE REAL QUESTION Do you have deductive reasoning? Sergey Brin Co-founder of Google Image provided by http://allthingsd.com 71% of employers said they value emotional intelligence more than IQ Emotional Intelligence "If you could be anyone else, who would it be?" "How would you direct someone else on how to cook an omelet?" PETCO Jim Myers Petco CEO Image provided by http://www.petcoscoop.com SALESFORCE.COM Marc Benioff Salesforce CEO Image provided by http://www.zimbio.com "It's 6pm and yvour work day is over; what happened during the day that made it awesome?" 2 3 4 Mark Zuckerberg Chairman and Chief Executive of Facebook, Inc. Image provided by http://mashable.com FACEBOOK Sources: SUPERSCHOLAR.ORG http://www.glassdoor.com/top-25-oddball-interview-questions.htm http://www.thestreet.com/story/11812783/1/crazy-job-interview-questions-to-cxpect-from-us-greatest-companies.html http://theundercoverrecruiter.com/top-7-qualitics-cmployers-are-looking-candidates/ http://www.carccrbuilder.com/share/aboutus/pressreleasesdetail.aspx?id=pr652&sd=8/18/2011&cd=8/18/2099&sitcid=cbpr&sc_cmpl=cb_pr652 http://www.medixteam.com/blog/job-scekers/emotional-intelligence-versus-iq-what-is-more-important-to-employers-2/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/30/job-interview-questions n 802658.html#s217048&title=Google People http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/26/toughest-job-interviews n 1707221.html#slide=1285078 http://www.businessinsider.com/15-google-interview-questions-that-will-make-you-feel-stupid-2009-11?op=l http://www.accenture-blogpodium.nl/best-place-to-work/leadership-update-pierre-nanterme-will-become-new-accenture-cco/ http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/detail-by-detail-guptas-lawycr-decontructs-goldman-testimony/ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/18/business/yourmoney/20SUND-EXT.html?_r=0 http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/12/25/interview_with_bank of amcrica coo_brian_moynihan/ http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/YSYSYLX-4kY/Salesforce+CEO+Marc+Benioff+Keynotes+Dreamforce/IkJuAE0mzYB/Marc+Benioff http://www.petcoscoop.com/wp-contcnt/uploads/2009/03/jimwithdogs.jpg http://mashable.com/2013/01/15/faccbook-live-blog/ http://www.mvgazette.com/news/2010/12/23/jetblue-fly-route-jfk http://allthingsd.com/20111118/wikipedia-gets-500k-from-brin-and-wojcicki-but-what-it-really-wants-is-small-donors/ DEVELOPED BY N NOWSOURCING

There are No Stupid Questions...

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