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* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': Tai [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=691 hires]] Marten on the spot for a job in the college library because he [[SecretTestOfCharacter notices]] that the application form is written in iambic pentameter.

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Tai [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=691 hires]] Marten on the spot for a job in the college library because he [[SecretTestOfCharacter 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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* One ''ComicStrip/AndyCapp'' strip has him go to an interview for a job he doesn't want.
-->'''Interviewer:''' You afraid of hard work?\\
'''Andy:''' Petrified.\\
'''Interviewer:''' A clockwatcher?\\
'''Andy:''' Can't keep me eyes off it.\\
'''Interviewer:''' Come in, you're the first honest lad we've had all week.
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* One ''ComicStrip/AndyCapp'' strip has him go to an interview for a job he doesn't want:
-->'''Interviewer''': You afraid of hard work?\\
'''Andy''': Petrified.\\
'''Interviewer''': A clockwatcher?\\
'''Andy''': Can't keep me eyes off it.\\
'''Interviewer''': Come in, you're the first honest lad we've had all week.
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* ''Series/FraggleRock'': 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. [[spoiler: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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* ''Series/FraggleRock'': 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. [[spoiler:This 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 is when a company hires based on a set of skills or achievements outside the usual for a job.


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* ''Film/TheHappiestMillionaire'': John gets hired as a butler just for showing up, without any need for even an interview. Even the aunt who was visiting the residence decided to treat him as the de facto butler before John had ever met any of the family that actually lived in the house.

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