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A sign that you don't want the job. | 27 | 26.73% | |
A sign that you can't manage the basic requirements of life. | 56 | 55.45% | |
A good negotiating strategy, since it shows that you don't need the job. | 8 | 7.92% | |
A way to exert control over a situation that historically favors the hiring party. | 4 | 3.96% | |
The way things work in the modern world. Only the uncool show up on time. | 5 | 4.95% | |
Sometimes necessary if you're watching the end of a really good TV show. | 5 | 4.95% | |
A colossally stupid move. | 60 | 59.41% | |
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09-23-2014, 11:11 AM | Topic Starter |
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Tip for Job Seekers
Show up at your freakin' interview on time. Seriously. If you show up 45 minutes late to a JOB INTERVIEW, it makes a BAD IMPRESSION. I don't care if you missed your bus or overslept or had other things going on. I don't care at all.
There are no excuses for being late to a job interview. Zero. If you were pulling people out of a burning car en route to the interview, that's great and I commend you for it, but it only takes three minutes to pull people out of a burning car. You should have planned ahead to be within sight of the interview location an hour before your interview. You should still be on time, but with a slight aroma of burning rubber and a great story for me. I guess possibly if you were on your way to an interview in Holland and you saw a dam breaking, and you put your finger in the dam, and it then took an hour for the dam repairers to show up, then that might be a feasible excuse since you saved countless lives. But I'd still want to see it on the news that evening, and I'd want to know that there were no other people around who could have switched fingers with you. Here's how you go to a job interview: 1. Drive to the interview with plans to be there an hour early. 2. Walk to the front door of the place an hour early just to be sure you know where it is. 3. Go to the nearest coffee shop and check out the company's web site and come up with some good questions and talking points. 4. Show up 10 minutes early. Sheesh. Humanity amazes me sometimes. |
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5. Don't call and back out of your interview 1hr before your scheduled time, and then anticipate an interview when you re-apply a year later.
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6. Your potential employer doesn't have a bad girlfriend. You do. He doesn't care.
7. Don't answer a text while you are talking with a potential employer. Shut your phone off before entering. |
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09-23-2014, 11:14 AM | #5 |
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I deserve this job because I'm a person. Pay me. It doesn't matter what skills I have or how hard I work.
Also, raise my minimum wage to $20 an hour - because I deserve it.
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Don't "no show" to an interview. If you aren't going to go....****ing call and cancel ahead of time. Nothing pisses me off more than having to sit on a panel and waste an hour of my time because you decided to not show up.
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09-23-2014, 11:15 AM | #7 |
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Don't swear in an interview. Had one guy drop F bombs the entire interview.
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I think that's OK. I'll sometimes throw in a few to break the ice if a candidate is super nervous. You just have to be careful and know your audience.
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