Adventures in job hunting

[fireflea]

Tomorrow is resume day, in which I drive around town and encourage places to hire me. That is my favourite part of job searching. Wear something pretty, ask to see a manager, smile, hand in papers, flounce away. Wait for phone call. It's the next part I dread. I never do very well at the interview phase of job hunting. I guess I'm just not

Comments

[nasicato]

g'luck!

.............

present and drunk!

[pedxing]

I enjoy interviews.
Maybe I'm just a masochist.

I usually say my worst trait is a lack of humility, but I'm otherwise perfect.

[twistedkestrel]

No, they do not. Or maybe they do, I don't know. I haven't gone through many, but I remember that question well. Last time I was asked what are my worst qualities, I kept on tripping over myself mentally. "No, I can't say that or you can guarentee they won't hire you." So what the interviewers saw was just me humming and hawing to myself for about two minutes.

I didn't get that job :P.

[ilovestuf]

i interviewed someone all by myself yesterday!

*I* was that scary man.

mwahahaha

[idali]

i honestly think interviews would be much more effective if you and the interviewer were placed in a situation in which you had to work together in order to figure something out or accomplish a common goal.

or even better, if you and the interviewer had to race! of course, you wouldn't have to beat the interviewer in order to get the job, you'd just have to try your best.

of course, if they were interviewing a whole bunch of people on the same day, they couldn't be expected to race each and every one of them. instead, they'd all race at the same time. and halfway through the race a man carrying a money sack in one hand and a gun in the other would run onto the track and pretend to take the interviewer hostage! and then a whole bunch of cops would show up and say, DROP THE GUN!! and he would refuse at first, but in the end no one would get hurt and the cop who talked him into surrendering would get a medal of honour.