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Unusual Hiring Practices

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Unusual Hiring Practices	comment	There is a typical method of getting a job. You fill out an application and/or send a resume, they ask you to come for an interview, and if they like you better than other would-be employees, you are hired. However, some employers hire people in rather unexpected ways. Sometimes, a company hires applicants based on how well they do performing skills outside those that would normally be associated with the job. Maybe an accounting firm requires you to be able to run a marathon, or a bakery wants you to prove your skill as a mason first. After being hired, the new employees may find themselves using the standard skill set for that job anyway, and the odd hiring quirks may or may not be relevant to the job. This can be a one-time deal, or might actually be how they test all the new applicants. Of course, the employer could just be eccentric, if not an out-and-out Cloudcuckoolander. This is most likely to be used in a comedic setting, though it could happen in a more serious piece. Of course, it is more likely to have a justifiable reason in serious media. However, this does not count if it's a Secret Test of Character. See also Heroism Equals Job Qualification.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_1099a6ac	comment	Fight Club: Played With. In order to join "Project Mayhem", candidates have to pass a test where they are left standing on the front porch of the Paper Street House for 3 days without food or shelter, enduring constant criticism, and told to leave. If they last this long, they are allowed to stay at the house and train becoming the "Space Monkeys". Other requirements are articles of black clothing and enough money for possible burial. (doubles for source material Fight Club)
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact: Margaret hired the underaged Diona for her Cat's Tail Inn just because Diona's cat-like features were just too cute to not go with the cat-themed tavern.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_1e249437	comment	Of Pups and Puzzles: This 1941 short film purports to be a documentary (it's actually a scripted Mockumentary) showing the new tests that job applicants are being given as they apply for work in the expanding war industry. The film shows some very elaborate and frankly impractical and excessively time-consuming job application tests, like flipping poker chips to test manual dexterity, firing a gun (!!!) to see how the applicants respond to a sudden surprise, or staging a logic puzzle in which applicants have to use two wooden planks to cross a pool.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Bolson's construction company only hires people whose names end in "-son." This also applies to people who don't even do construction, such as the members of each race that you need to populate Tarrey Town with in the "From The Ground Up" sidequest.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_3ccd4125	comment	The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Hahari has been shown to hire at least a few people because she thought they were cute, either as staff at her mansion or as faculty at Rentarou's school.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_455e3038	comment	On King of the Hill, Hank hired workers based on their knowledge of football. This bit him in the ass when he hired a drug addict who was a Cowboys fan.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_6e613de1	comment	One Andy Capp strip has him go to an interview for a job he doesn't want.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_740815bb	comment	The Imperial Examination gets parodied in Interesting Times with the Examination for the Post of Assistant Night-Soil Operative, which tests the candidates on poetry, literary criticism, and music.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_86e1a415	comment	John Laurinaitis became infamous for the real-life practice of hiring women for WWE who modelled in magazines, and not those that showed actual talent or inclination for the business.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk: In the episode "Mr. Monk Fights City Hall", Monk finds out that Eileen Hill hired her secretary Maria Schechter by leaving flyers for the job at a Lamaze class (where they would be seen by pregnant women), and having the candidate who showed up give a urine sample, claiming it was for a drug test. It turns out the real purpose was to get a positive pregnancy test to show the man she was having an affair with, in order to convince him to leave his wife; instead, the man murdered her.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_90e2f673	comment	In BattleTech, an infantry soldier or vehicle crewmember who managed to capture an enemy Battlemech intact (or at least in a fixable position) will often be offered the option of becoming the mech's next pilot.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_938e19ec	comment	Fraggle Rock: In "All Work and All Play", Cotterpin got her job as the Architect's apprentice because she, unlike the other Doozers, did not like to build constructions — she even ran away from the ceremony of taking the helmet and becoming a builder. This reminded the Architect that he, too, in his youth, had refused to take the helmet, preferring, like Cotterpin, to draw. This, in turn, inspired him to invite her, when she returned home that evening, to become his apprentice.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_a632c9af	comment	Donnie Brasco: Played With. Donnie exploits this to pose as a jewel expert/thief in order to infiltrate the Mob through Lefty by claiming the diamond that the latter got as collateral is a "fugazy", a fake.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Questionable Content: Tai hires Marten on the spot for a job in the college library because he notices that the application form is written in iambic pentameter. Dora doesn't seem to like interviews and tends to just hire the first person who walks in. She recently acknowledged this and decided to subvert it... by hiring the second person to walk in.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: Elliot's interview with Mr. Tensaided for a position at a video rental store goes poorly. Susan namedrops that Elliot knows Cheerleadra, and gets hired instantly.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_c487221e	comment	Men in Black: Agent K invites J to the M.I.B.'s training facility, for a tryout, after witnessing him track an alien on foot. J ends up competing with marksmen and top military officers in various tests of skill and mental acumen. During the written portion of the exam, the others tried using their chairs to write on, while J was the only one with sense enough to make use of the table. However, it was during the marksman exam, that J also demonstrated that he was not only keenly observant but could think outside the box. The others simply fired at whatever looked like a monster, while sparing the civilian targets, as one would expect. J fires a single shot and kills "Little Tiffany". When Zedd asks why, J explains: J got the job, the others had their memories wiped and were sent home.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_c4d11117	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze: To join the Foot, Keno has to remove training bells from a dummy silently in the dark. Raphael does it for him, and places all of them into Keno's hands.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_df7e11cd	comment	Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: seems to hire people for, among other things, their pectoral girth. The only person who has avoided this so far is Jared, by virtue of the Commander's interest in his story and making PokÃ©mon battles interesting to watch.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_ea6348c1	comment	Noob: La CroisÃ©e des Destins: Gaea is a Starving Student living off a scholarship that she's trying to stretch as long as she can according to All There in the Manual. In the MMORPG that she's playing, she manages to put a whole in-game faction in debt to her via earning in-game currency as a Con Woman with a thing for Blackmail, saving it for years, spending it all in creating a shortage of basic materials in a time of high demand and reselling it all at inflated prices. This impresses a minor character enough to offer to hire her into a high-level job in a notoriously corrupt bank.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_eef69f10	comment	"The Red-Headed League": The titular League seems to exclusively employ red-headed men for meaningless tasks like copying out the entire ''Encyclopedia Britannica''... because it's actually a front for some bank robbers to tunnel into the bank next door to the red-headed man's other workplace while he's out.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_f0650387	comment	The Blood of a Dragon: When the protagonist is trying to be taken on as a magician's apprentice, most branches of magic do a practical test of his aptitude in one way or another — except sorcery, where he's just asked "a variety of peculiar questions, mostly dealing with numbers and unlikely hypothetical situations."
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_fad1ddfe	comment	The Last Starfighter: The Star League hires pilots by seeing who does the best at video games, and seed arcades with their training game cabinet.
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Unusual Hiring Practices / int_fc93e179	comment	(doubles for source material Fight Club)
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Men in Black / int_240c4ac3	type	Unusual Hiring Practices
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Interesting Times / int_240c4ac3	type	Unusual Hiring Practices
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You (Manga) / int_240c4ac3	type	Unusual Hiring Practices
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