Resourcing | Recipes, songs & poems: The strangest job application submissions

Hiring managers often throw curveball questions to see how candidates cope when answering something that they haven’t rehearsed for such as: “How would you solve problems if you were from Mars?” and “Why are manholes round?”.

This will give hiring managers better insights into the candidate’s personality, cognitive thinking and they will be able to better assess their suitability to the role. But not all candidates perform well when vocalising their responses in an interview. So, to give all candidates a fair opportunity to prove their skillsets and tap into every applicants’ strengths, one firm has shaken up its recruitment process entirely.

Casting lengthy, monotonous and restrictive applications aside, Hoxby, a global community of freelancers, asks their candidates two simple questions during the interview process. You may be wondering what is so revolutionary about simply asking the questions ‘Why do you want to be a Hoxby? and ‘What does the #workstyle movement mean to you?’ but it isn’t about the questions that they ask; it is about the way that they gather the responses.