RE: Interviewing Strategies

["James Barrow" <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net>]

>Edgar D' Souza said:
>>Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
>>
>>The issue is not one of content, but of context.  How many interviewing
>>guidelines have you read that tell you to turn your cellphone off during
>>an interview?  Well, the "interview" begins when you pull your car into
>>the driveway of the prospective employer (and possibly even a few blocks
>>away; heard the story about the guy who gets cut off on the way to an
>>interview, gives the other driver the finger and some colorful insults
>>only to discover it's the interviewer?), and it lasts until you are well
>>off the premises.  Employers who hear you engaging in indiscreet and
>>inappropriate personal phone conversations in their lobbies may well
>>wonder under what equally indiscreet and inappropriate circumstances you
>>may engage in conversations that could harm their companies by airing
>>corporate dirty laundry or proprietary business information where it ought
>>not to be heard.
>
>Ok, now THAT puts even an ordinary "spat conversation" off-limits and
>explains why the candidate wouldn't be hired even if he wasn't being loud
>or offensive. Thanks, Gene.
>
>And thanks to all the others who responded, too - though it may have wound
>up off-topic (according to Jim).

Oh sure, I compose a reply that would make Jimmy Olsen envious, and all I
get is an honorable mention.  Gene hacks out a quip in between watching
Wheel of Fortune and microwaving macaroni and cheese, and he gets nominated
for the Nobel Prize for literature.

That's it!  I'm through with this list...until 9am tomorrow.

Night all,

Jim

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