So tell me, asked the personnel director, "have you any other skills you think might be worth mentioning?"
"Actually, yes," said the applicant modestly. "Last year I had two short stories published in a national magazine and finished a novel."
"Very impressive," replied the interviewer, "but I was thinking more along the lines of skills you could apply during office hours."
"Oh," she started, "but that was during office hours ..."
Here's an item from Jim in Great Falls, Virginia, inspired by the "At The Office" tale:
Your story about the response to the interviewer's questions: "Do you have any other skills you think might be worth mentioning?" reminds me of a true story.
A friend of mine was the director of undergraduate admissions at a prestigious major university. One year the undergraduate application for admission had an open-ended questions similar to the one in your story.
My friend tells me that one young man, whose application indicated he was very active in competitive swimming, responded by writing, "Yes, my best time in the 200 meter butterfly is X minutes and Y seconds." (I don't recall what X and Y were.)
Anyhow, the young man's mediocre application went into the "reject" pile. The next day, the admissions director was still puzzled about whether the time cited by the young man was really all that noteworthy. So he called the school's swim coach and told him about the young man's best time.
The coach responded by saying, "That guy has to be ..." and correctly named the applicant. My friend asked how the coach knew, and the coach responded, "Because that time is the North American record in the 200 meter butterfly."
The young man's application quickly went over the "accepted" pile.