A group on LinkedIn, Corporate Recruiters, has posed an interesting question on its discussion board: What is the most outdated interview question? Here is a selection of the group’s ideas:

• Why do you want to join our organisation?
• What would your wife say if we were to ask her what your biggest flaw was?
• Tell me about yourself…
• If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?
• Where do you see yourself in five years?

Any other suggestions…?