Comments on: Interview, friends and dancing.

By: jax

jax — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:37:44 +0000

You know, that’s what I woke up wondering about – how I could do the garden if I get the job. Not how will I fit in me, or the children…the garden!

By: Kris

Kris — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:29:16 +0000

Humour in an interview is always a good sign – I think a dour, boring interview means you shouldn’t accept the job even if they offer it to you! (of course, I just had to edit that as I’d typed ‘humous’)

Wishing you luck and planning you a ‘working person’s garden’

By: Claire

Claire — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:09:59 +0000

Got everything crossed here for you Jax and I reckon that rearranging to see you is definitely a positive sign. They must have been really interested to consider doing that.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:29:43 +0000

When you say attend Nic, do you mean as the interviewee or interviewer. As an interviewee I think I have attended 5 interviews in total and got the lot. This is partly because I don’t apply for jobs that I am note certain that I want and I only apply for jobs which I know I am perfect for My charm of course helps. On the other side of the table, I have probably interviewed something in excess of 500 people, gulp.

My honest view is that *most* of the time *most* of the interviewees could do the job, we didn’t waste time (theirs and ours) interviewing people who were anything worse than very marginal. It then came down (tbh) to all the sorts of decisions that are hard to quantify but revolve around personality, intellect, humour etc etc. On that basis it was very difficult to pre-judge the outcome, as the best on paper was hardly ever the best in terms of quantifiable attributes. We would never waster our time interviewing one person at a different time because of some commitment of theirs unless we were really interested. It might of course be different in IT.

By: jax

jax — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:38:59 +0000

That’s fairly encouraging then Nic, thanks.

By: helen and chris F

helen and chris F — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:34:27 +0000

well, fingers croseed then

By: Nic

Nic — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:31:45 +0000

Well you were honest, and with that in mind if you do get the job then it is totally the right job for you, if you don’t then it wasn’t. I have never sat and totalled it up but I reckon I have attended well over 50 interviews in the ten years I had a working life. I have also worked in recruitment agencies and general recruitment so I have also seen it from the other side. I would not necessarily agree with Tim that they have decided before they interview but I would say that unless they fully expect you to be worthy of the job they won’t waste their time or yours in interviewing you. So yeah, rearranging to see you is a definite positive I would also say that when I interview I already know that the person is capable of doing the job – the purpose of the interview is to see how compatible they would be in working with me, or the rest of the team. With that in mind if there is humour during the interview that is a good sign

Oh and ewwww to the bath time incident

By: Joyce

Joyce — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:46:31 +0000

Well, fingers crossed. I think its perfectly acceptable to say “look it up”. Rather better than “I’d be too much of a plonker to admit I didn’t know, so I’d do a botched job, and hope by the time it was discovered, I could blame someone else.”

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:40:06 +0000

Glad the interview went OK. Where was it?