This column first appeared in Sunday Times on 12th July 2020.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2020-07-12-the-questions-we-really-should-be-asking-on-job-interviews-but-dont/

‘Frequently Asked Questions’, or because I’m a little rude, as I like to call them, ‘FAQs’, is a relatively new acronym, coined by NASA at the start of internet times.

But we were actually asking the original Frequently Asked Questions way before the internet even existed. Mostly on childhood fami...