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Subject: RE: Strange Interview Practices?
From: Win Day <winday -at- home -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:18:37 -0500

At 02:06 PM 02/11/2001 -0600, quills -at- airmail -dot- net wrote:

At 9:17 AM -0600 11/2/01, bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com wrote:
"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition."


Too true!

I went through one interview process, ending with the project head, who was the hiring/firing authority, and he asked me "Why should I hire you, rather than anyone else."

I just grinned at him and gave him a reasonable answer. What I wanted to tell him, was that I was the best person he would find, and the question he should have asked was " Why I would not work for him."

I already knew by the time he asked that odious question, that I didn't want to work there. I merely treated the entire interview as a practice. And I enjoyed it, It was also very helpful for the later interview I took for the position I eventually accepted. Elsewhere, I might add.


All right, I'll bite. Why was the question odious?

Maybe it's because I've been freelancing for so long. But EVERY time I approach a client about a potential project, my main objective in the proposal is to answer EXACTLY that question: why they should hire me instead of someone else.

I can't see why an interview for a permanent position is that different from a proposal for a contract. Of course you're trying to convince TPTB that you are a better solution to their problem than the next guy in the room or the last gal that was there.

<perplexed>Isn't that the purpose of an interview?</perplexed>

Win
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Win Day
Multimedia Developer

http://www.wordsplus.net
mailto:winday -at- wordsplus -dot- net


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