Employer's Test, was Technical Writer Certification

[Stuart Burnfield]

Chris B said:
 > When you go in for the interview, make sure to screw up a
 > trivial thing at the beginning of the interview, like having
 > a price tag still on your pants or misidentifying the street
 > name you took to get there.
 >
 > If they ignore the error or make too big of a deal about it,
 > they may be focused more on personality than the job itself.
 >
 > If they can correct the error with grace, this is someone who
 > is both focused on the task and cares about people.

Huh? Why would I distract or embarrass the applicant by "correcting" an 
error that's irrelevant to the job and the interview? I think it would 
be tactful not to mention it.

If someone accidentally left a price tag on their clothes or 
misremembered a street name it would have no influence on my decision. 
If I thought an applicant had _deliberately_ done this as some sort of 
bizarre, misguided personality test--I would have to suspect that person 
was *seriously* weird.

Stuart