I was being ____ for a job with an ____ agency and the interviewer kept checking information on my ____ and then asking me about it, and he saw that I'd ____ philosophy at university, and he said, 'Oh, I see that you studied Philosophy at university. Do you still ____ philosophy?' So I said, 'Well, I still ____ a lot'. Anyway he obviously liked the answer because I got the job. At my job interview to become an ____ with a publishing company, there were three people ____ questions: two managers, and a woman from Human Resources. All the questions had been ____ normal, they were about my studies and experience, and then ____ the woman from Human Resources asked me, 'What would make you ____ a dog?' I was totally ____ but I managed to answer- I said, 'I'd only kick it if the dog had bad ____ and couldn't punctuate properly'. l thought it was quite a ____ answer and, in fact, I got the job! W hen I was ____ for a teaching job in Korea, they were doing the interviews by phone because I was in the US. And because of the time ____ they were all very early in the morning, which is not my best time. Anyway, the Director of Studies of this particular school asked me, 'How ____ are you?' and, 'How much do you ____?' I answered these questions but after the interview, when I thought about it, I ____ that I didn't want to work in a school that would ____ me by my height or my ____. So later, when they ____ me the job, I ____. I was being interviewed for a job with a company in Switzerland and the ____ asked me, 'What ____ would you like to be reincarnated as?' So I said a ____, because it was the first thing I ____ of and because cats have a good life - well at least in Britain they do. And then the interviewer ____ looked a bit ____ and said that he had been told to ask me that question to see how I would ____, but that he thought it was a ____ question. In the end I didn't get the job, so maybe the interviewer wasn't very ____ of cats ... I went for a job in a ____ office. There were two of us waiting to be interviewed - me and a man ____ the same age as me - and be was nice so we were chatting before we went in, and we ____ to have a coffee ____. Well, I went in first, and they asked me the usual sorts of questions about my ____ job. They had all my personal information on my CV and so they knew I was ____ and suddenly they asked me, 'Are you planning to have children?' I said 'not in the ____ future but maybe one day'. Afterwards when I was having coffee with the other candidate, I asked him ____ he'd been asked the same question, and be said no, even though be was married, too. In fact we ____ got offered jobs, but I still think it was a very sexist question to ask.

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