Life Tip for Job Seekers - Page 2

**Rain Man** · 09-23-2014, 11:11 AM

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.

**Rain Man** · 09-23-2014, 11:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cochise

Don't write on your resume that you know Microsoft Office. That's like telling me that you know how to use a telephone.

I had an interviewee once for a data analyst position, and she listed on her resume a class project where she had done a data analysis-oriented final project. (This was a new college graduate.) I asked her what software she had used to do the analysis, and she said, "Excel? Or maybe it was Access? I don't remember. It was one of those."

Pitt Gorilla · 09-23-2014, 11:19 AM

Why have a poll if you're providing the answer(s) in the OP?

**The Franchise** · 09-23-2014, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Halfcan

Did the mother****er get the ****ing job or what.

Yes, but only because I work for the government and we were ****ing hard up for temporary employees at that time. AND I talked to him about it afterwards.

MagicHef · 09-23-2014, 11:20 AM

I once showed up for an interview late. I had 2 interviews on the same day with the same company, 2 different divisions at 2 different locations. They chose the interview times, and I assumed that they would leave me enough time to get to my second interview on time. They didn't.

**Rain Man** · 09-23-2014, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Why have a poll if you're providing the answer(s) in the OP?

It's a rhetorical poll.

Mennonite · 09-23-2014, 11:22 AM

**Bugeater** · 09-23-2014, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by MagicHef

I once showed up for an interview late. I had 2 interviews on the same day with the same company, 2 different divisions at 2 different locations. They chose the interview times, and I assumed that they would leave me enough time to get to my second interview on time. They didn't.

I had something similar happen once. I had an interview scheduled at 1 and another at 3. When I got to the first one I found out that the owner told everyone who called about the job to be there at 1, and there were about a dozen people there. Took over an hour for him to get to me and by the time I was done there was no way I was going to make it to the second one on time, so I didn't even bother going. Didn't like no-showing but that first guy pretty much screwed me.

**The Franchise** · 09-23-2014, 11:23 AM

The correct answer to the question "what are some of your weaknesses" is not "I don't have any because I'm a perfectionist".

Halfcan · 09-23-2014, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Pestilence

Yes, but only because I work for the government and we were ****ing hard up for temporary employees at that time. AND I talked to him about it afterwards.

Put him on the phone with the asshole customers that want to talk to a "manager" he sounds like he would be perfect.

Customer- is this the manager?

Newguy- Yes ****head-what the **** is your ****ing problem-hurry up your wasting my ****ing time you ****ing ****tard ****wad?

Customer- click

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 09-23-2014, 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pestilence

The correct answer to the question "what are some of your weaknesses" is not "I don't have any because I'm a perfectionist".

58-4ever · 09-23-2014, 11:37 AM

If you're late, you might as well save yourself the time and go to the bar because you're not getting the job that day.

WilliamTheIrish · 09-23-2014, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Don't swear in an interview. Had one guy drop F bombs the entire interview.

You know the best interviewer I ever had, with the one of the top guys in his field at GE, the guy cussed up a storm.

58-4ever · 09-23-2014, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by 58-4ever

If you're late, you might as well save yourself the time and go to the bar because you're not getting the job that day.

Unless you're in South America.... Apparently they are late for everything.

**Rausch** · 09-23-2014, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Halfcan

Put him on the phone with the asshole customers that want to talk to a "manager" he sounds like he would be perfect.

Customer- is this the manager?

Newguy- Yes ****head-what the **** is your ****ing problem-hurry up your wasting my ****ing time you ****ing ****tard ****wad?

Customer- click

Sometimes I miss my old part time job.

The great thing was our phone at the Mom-n-pop pizza shop was pretty loud. Once the customer said some BS that was clearly not true (you put my pizza in the box upside down!) we had free reign. And we were not kind...

58-4ever · 09-23-2014, 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

You know the best interviewer I ever had, with the one of the top guys in his field at GE, the guy cussed up a storm.

He was interviewing you?

View Poll Results: Showing up late to a job interview is...
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%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 101. You may not vote on this poll

09-23-2014, 11:11 AM
Rain Man NFL's #1 Ermines Fan Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $3038491 VARSITY	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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