My fiancée is filling out an employment application, much like the hundreds that I filed before and after I graduated college in my own fruitless effort to find meaningful employment.
Her sales application asked if she was a hunter or a farmer. I advised her to indicate that she is a farmer because farmers harvest relationships that grow and flourish over time. A hunter, from how I read it, seemed like a salesperson who goes in for the kill; a one-time sale.
The sad fact is that so many of the unemployed, if given a single interview, could wow enough employers to hire some of them. Instead, abstract questions like the one about hunters and farmers help sort those "worthy" of an interview from those who are not. Finding a job is the most impersonal experience, but I'm sure someone here will point out that it is only business.
Sadly, a good employee might be ignored because he or she answers only one question wrong.