RE: Portfolios of samples as Interviewing criteria [Remembering]

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

Keith....endless amount of bytes have been used up by people on this list
asking the best way to present styles, information, fonts, stylesheets,
headings, program names in text, margins, headers, footers, etc., etc., etc.

In reality...is how you present yourself to a possible employer any less
important than how you present a help file to a user?

Yes...this SHOULD be scripted. The interview is a selling process...you are
selling yourself...is there any product where how you sell it more important
than that?

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
212-414-6656
 "Be accurate...the 4am wakeup call you prevent could be your manager's"



-----Original Message-----
From: kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com [mailto:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:56 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Portfolios of samples as Interviewing criteria
[Remembering]



John wrote:

> When I arrive at the interview, when we sit down, I ... let it land on 
> the table with a dull "whoomf", just loud enough to be heard but not 
> hard enough to bounce coffee cups on the table, but I don't open it. 
> In most cases, the eyes of the interviewer will keep dropping to the 
> ..... I have in front of me as we speak.
>
> Finally, the anticipation will be too much and they ask to see it.
> 
> I slowly unzip it and hand it to the person like it is something 
> truly valuable, because it IS. 

Wow - did anybody else need a cigarette after reading this? :)

I guess size does matter, and John's (tightly wrapped in it's shining black
leather case) is quite obviously bigger than mine.



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