These days, people can’t generally ask you revealing questions about your personality: "Are you married?" "Do you attend a church?" "Do you eat small students for breakfast?" Although those questions could really tell the interviewer if the person would likely fit in or cause problems and become antagonistic towards their supervisor. I’ve found interviews have become longer and chit chat has become more mundane as interviewers are uncertain of how they can find out what makes a person tick.

So, be open, confident, and hopefully humorous. Generally, don’t even answer a "Yes" or "No" question with just one word. Don’t equivocate, talk from the heart.

I once asked a candidate how they would respond to a person making a threat to them and they responded, "I would respond in the manner outlined in your policy manual, whatever it says to do." I’m thinking, if I were threatened physically, I’m calling for help and the police, and maybe afterwards clear it up with any policy manual. Who reads and rereads policy manuals at a time like that? So, I didn’t hire her. She was persistant though and was hired by another department. Getting to know her, I realize that she can be just as impulsive as anyone else and regularly responds to library incidents as necessary, but her intuition told her that I wanted to hire an automaton and that is SO far from this library’s organizational culture, I figured she wouldn’t fit in.
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