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I recently caught an interesting clip on Youtube of Forbes talking to Johnathan “Fatality” Wendel who is a professional video gamer and discussing what it takes to get into the business. Its not all its cracked up to be, and much more harder of a job than people realize.

You can see more video clips of Johnathan Wendel at Youtube. This guy is really something.

What is your weirdest experience in a job interview?

Well Yesterday which was Friday i had a job interview at Rebel Sport as a Department Manager, and coming from Coles Myer i thought that this interview would be a breeze. Let me tell you . . . some of the questions that i was asked where just plain weird.
There were the obvious questions that you would expect in any job interview such as:

• Why do you think you are suited to this job?
• What makes you different from the other people applying for this job?
• What are some key ideas that you can bring to Rebel Sport as a Department Manager?

At this point i was thinking ‘YES’ i can answer all of these, and thinking soon it will be over.

But then . . . the weird questions came:

Do you watch T.V?

Do you have a dog and if so how often do you walk it?

He even asked . . . If you could steal anything from this store what would it be? I couldn’t believe it lol. Over-all the interview went fairly well but i couldn’t stop laughing to myself about some of the questions he was asking.

If anyone has had any interesting or just plain weird Job Interviews it would be great if you could share them with us, its a very interesting topic. Looking forward to hearing them.

Apple Computer Inc. these days is such a successful and prosperous company, its hard to imaging that just 10 years ago, things looked a little different at the Apple camp in Cupertino CA.

A few years after the creation of Apple Computer Inc by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Jobs was let go as it was thought that the decision to remove Jobs from the company would be the best thing for Apple. How they were wrong. After Steve left the company, things really went downhill for Apple with declining sales and loss of interest by the public in their products.

1997 was the year that Steve Jobs would return to Apple and totally change the way they did business and turned the company around from a premature death, to the multi-billion dollar grossing company they have become today.

Back in June 1997 just before Steve came back to Apple, there was an article which featured in Wired Magazine (Cover Story) entitled “101 ways to save Apple” written by James Daly. He listed over a hundred ways the company could turn themselves around with quotations such as “You’re out of the hardware game” and “Don’t disappear from retail chains”. All these statements made by Daly of course were stringently backed up citing a number of sources.

This article is a very interesting read, and a walk down memory lane for any Apple nostalgist looking for that piece of the past that can never be realized again. Apple is such a strong dominant company these days, and with Steve Jobs at the reigns, the company only promises to continue to be successful.