Hope you don't mind me sharing an anecdote here:
My younger sister was in a dead end waitressing job and decided she would like to join British Airways as cabin crew. Our family was working class poor and my sister left school as soon as she could without taking any exams, so wasn't obviously cabin crew material. [It was a middle class job in those days.]
Being much older and with more experience I coached her for interview, doing endless role plays with her. Our eldest sister, by then quite wealthy, dressed her very smartly so she looked the part and did her hair and make up. Suitably prepared off she went to her interview.
There was a group interview where the candidates sat in a circle and were tasked with discussing which three items they would want with them if they were marooned on a desert island. Very seriously they proposed having the means to start a fire, water purification etc. and in a lull my sister piped up, "Tampax - I'm not messing about with leaves and grass, desert island or not I've got to keep some standards, I'm taking my Tampax." She said the other candidates looked appalled, but the observers were trying not to smile. The discussion continued and again my sister chose her moment, "I need my make-up bag. If I'm going to get rescued by a millionaire on his yacht I want to look good or he might not bother to stop."
I can't now remember what she wanted for her third item, but she got the job and worked for more than thirty years for BA, retiring only last year. I think of my sister and her interview every time I hear the words 'desert island' and I never cease to smile at how her quirky sense of humour won the day.