This might be interesting to hear on. Back when I used to interview people for employment I went through all the sweat-inducing questions. Poor people! I raked them over the coals mostly . But I always ended the interview with the same question:

Given the choice of a Dollar or a Doughnut which would you pick? And why?

Strangely, this (seemingly silly question) was the one answer, in conjunction with the other ones, that influenced my decision on who to hire. And the question really, if you pay attention to the answers, is not silly at all.

Which would you pick and why?

I guess that I would choose the dollar, then I could choose my own donut if I want to buy one.

I would choose the doughnut. Dollars are no good to me here in England

I was assuming he meant the local cash equivalent - and hopefully I would have some money left over from buying my own donut as well as having been able to choose it.

It has to have fresh Cornish Clotted cream on, jam in the middle and dusted with icing sugar....

If a complete stranger walked up to me and made the offer, I'd go with the dollar no question - my mummy told me not to take pastries from stangers! Also I'd rather make my own choice to buy a doughnut or anything else.

But if I were in an interview situation and someone held out a plate with a doughnut on it and said "take it, or would you rather a dollar" of course I'd take the doughnut. I only *seem* rude sometimes...but it would be a trust thing, wouldn't it?

Has anyone ever taken the Myers-Briggs personality test? I think it was that one anyway. When you self-evaluate your multiple choice answers (if you answered mostly 'b' you are a 'summer' or whatever) one of the categories was for 'how many questions did you aruge with and decide none of the answers were right but if you had to pick one I guess this will do'. Yeah, that's me!

So, do I get the job???

I'd have to choose the dollar. The reason: doughnuts, while they taste wonderful and I love eating them, they sit like a rock in my stomach afterwards and I regret eating them every time.

ing_ - I always picked the one who took the dollar, mostly. Still not sure why, though. I made up that question for my own staff(s) good but those other tests confused me no end. Apparently it's safe now to just reflect that cognizance/apptitude tests show nothing much. Pick a dollar? You know how to use/make money. Pick the doughnut? You're just hungry. It's not a general rule, though. In interviews it always depended on what had been said before, though.

Anyway, you're all hired. No right or wrong answers on this one. Any more want to answer?