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/

Wow, this is awesome. Never seen it before. Instant bookmark, tweet and posted to facebook...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I don't know about getting escorted out but it definitely is presumptuous. More importantly it is fucking 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.

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.