Unconventional ways to ace any job interview (edufire.com)

For some reason I can't get "Barney Stinson! Barney Stinson!" out of my head.

I feel like if I tried to pull some of that stuff with a potential employer, I would be dismissed as a pretentious blowhard.

http://barneysvideoresume.com/

Ace any interview? You certainly wouldn't be off to a good start with me if you tried to use a powerpoint presentation.

For a programming job at least (and probably most technical positions) it seems that all those suggestions would actually work against you.

Coming to an interview with the usernames and passwords for an AcmeCorp account at "major" social media sites Acme didn't "think" to claim seems like a good way to get escorted out of the building.

powerpoint presentation == You aren't getting the job.

I'd say more, but personally the interview would be over the second someone mentioned powerpoint.

It would be certainly interesting to bring a USB drive to an interview at IBM, where they don't allow USB drives due to security concerns (or so I'm told).

Ace the interview indeed.

I dunno.. I might be a conservative here, but if someone I'm interviewing starts doing all these things, I'm going to feel like he/she is just trying a little to hard and might come out as fake.

There's a line between showing genuine interest in the role, and coming out a little over the top. Doing these "not so common" methods might just cross the line for me.

I dunno, maybe I'm just weird.

I can't understand: is this a joke?

Oh well.

6. Take a couple of hostages and record them begging for this company to land you a job. Originality is a great way to impress an interviewer.