Sean Lange (2/7/2014)
Miles Neale (2/7/2014)
If I respond to the question with "You got to be joking" or Wrong Tool For the Wrong Thing" I will not be scored and will not get any points for that response.That is not necessarily correct. Maybe the question is intentionally using the wrong tool for the job and they want to know if you know that and have the courage to suggest a better alternative and be able to back it up.
Sean, I responded to this as one who has sat on the other side of the table, the side that asks those kinds of questions. I did not write the questions but have been told in every case that if the person does not attempt to respond to the question as posed, the value of the response is zero. In every case for each of the panels the idea is will the person answer the question as posed, and after, once they have made a good faith effort to answer, they then may question the validity of the question.
A response where both bases are covered tells more. First I will do as you ask showing humility, respect, and showing that I will take direction no matter how silly it might seem to me; but I will also question the question showing that I have a bit of spunk and am not intimidated even if the job or being hired for the job depends on it.
M.
Not all gray hairs are Dinosaurs!