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Ha, love the breakfast cereal example. I wrote a blog post about how to handle "weird interview" questions: http://blog.seattleinterviewcoach.com/2009/04/how-to-handle-weird-interview-questions.html

Seattle Interview Coach of WA 12:01AM May 01, 2009

the robots of HR will put more credence in the supposed "credentials" they glean from that daunting stack of paper resumes than in anything you say to THEM. Getting to your future boss is the big deal. You need to sell him or her.

Muser of NM 2:24PM April 29, 2009

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