Process Essay: How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
How would you Move Mount Fuji?
Do you have what it takes to get that position you have always wanted? If you are looking to demonstrate your creative and innovative attributes to make you stand out from the crowd, consider reading William Poundstone’s, How Would you Move Mount Fuji before your next job interview.
You probably know the clichés about how fast things are changing and how everything you learned in school will be out of date in 5 years (plus or minus). Children who are entering schools today will retire at a rough estimate in the year 2065, so if we do not know how the world will look like in 5 years how can we know how to prepare them and ourselves for the future? Today, it is becoming increasingly important for us to demonstrate our creativity in order to give a good impression on our next job interview.
For years, Microsoft, Google, Apple and other high-tech companies have used riddles and logic puzzles like the ones mentioned in Poundstone’s book for their notoriously grueling job interviews. These "puzzle interviews" have become known as a hot new trend in the recruitment process to filter out the most innovative and intelligent candidates from the …show more content…
He even mentions that interviewers “don’t know the correct answer and that it makes no difference that they don’t know it.” (p. 8). Yet later in the second half of the book, he goes on to give sample answers to the questions which inadvertently leads the reader into assuming that there are actually more right answers for the questions since he precisely mentions examples of good and bad answers. However one golden rule he abides by is that, for the purposes of a job interview, the “reasoning is the answer”. So essentially, if you can reason your way through the answer then you will have the upper
Do you have what it takes to get that position you have always wanted? If you are looking to demonstrate your creative and innovative attributes to make you stand out from the crowd, consider reading William Poundstone’s, How Would you Move Mount Fuji before your next job interview.
You probably know the clichés about how fast things are changing and how everything you learned in school will be out of date in 5 years (plus or minus). Children who are entering schools today will retire at a rough estimate in the year 2065, so if we do not know how the world will look like in 5 years how can we know how to prepare them and ourselves for the future? Today, it is becoming increasingly important for us to demonstrate our creativity in order to give a good impression on our next job interview.
For years, Microsoft, Google, Apple and other high-tech companies have used riddles and logic puzzles like the ones mentioned in Poundstone’s book for their notoriously grueling job interviews. These "puzzle interviews" have become known as a hot new trend in the recruitment process to filter out the most innovative and intelligent candidates from the …show more content…
He even mentions that interviewers “don’t know the correct answer and that it makes no difference that they don’t know it.” (p. 8). Yet later in the second half of the book, he goes on to give sample answers to the questions which inadvertently leads the reader into assuming that there are actually more right answers for the questions since he precisely mentions examples of good and bad answers. However one golden rule he abides by is that, for the purposes of a job interview, the “reasoning is the answer”. So essentially, if you can reason your way through the answer then you will have the upper