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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Martha said:So did you hire him, or no?
No. Tough decision. There really was no position open.
Martha said:So did you hire him, or no?
justin said:Yes. Talk slowly to the interviewer, and keep reinforcing your ability to show up at 8:00 am, take 2 hour lunches and leave promptly at 5:00 pm. You'll go far in government. Find out the political leaning (if any) of the department you are interviewing with, and then criticize/praise George Bush (depending on political leaning). Don't stand out too much or appear too above average. The hiring manager doesn't want you to take his job one day. Make sure you don't appear overly qualified.
Just my experience in several government jobs.
wildcat said:Two more reasons to hate job interviews -
The 2nd one didn't even follow up to notify me either way so I just had to assume I did get it. Tacky if you ask me and both places were supposed to be well respected companies in their respective industries. Yeah I got some practice but I kind of expect some courtesy on their end.
justin said:I've just become the interviewer for my company. Remember that the person on the other side of the table from the interviewee may not like interviews that much either
I'm having a hard time recruiting enough engineers to keep our company's wheels turning. The economy sure has picked up this last year or so.
It is plausible they are still interviewing more candidates or they may have extended an offer to someone and waiting for a response. You can follow up to see if you are still in the running.wildcat said:The 2nd one didn't even follow up to notify me either way so I just had to assume I did get it.
astromeria said:I loved interviewing, yet I'm an introvert. But as a tech writer/editor, I was being interviewed almost entirely by my fellow introverts, so we got along very well and enjoyed talking about the work. Plus I was able to portray my nervousness as excited enthusiasm to the boss. My follow-up emails always included things like how much I liked the team and how impressed I was that the team loved working there. (This was sincere, BTW.) Gets 'em every time...or it used to.
Twice I interviewed for a job and didn't get it. the first time was a clear case of age discrimination. I was 34. Small office and all the Important Folks were men and support staff were single cute women in their 20s who went to a bar after work. I was a married mother of 2 who needed to get home right after work. They said I "wouldn't fit in." The other time I interviewed but wasn't hired, my group at a software company was being axed and they gave us a few weeks to find another position in the company or we'd be laid off. There were no open documentation positions at the time, but I shopped myself to 3 groups, 2 of whom made me offers. The group that didn't was the one I most wanted to be in--and they took the 2 younger, hipper doc folks from my group but not me (by this time I was 41 and coloring the gray!). I went back to my office and cried. Well, that trendy-product group was all laid off a year or so later, while the team I joined became the most important in the company, and I was very secure despite bad times. Careers move in mysterious ways!