RE: Advice for Job Seekers

[KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

Mark Baker suggested:
> 
> The best way to handle this is to ask: "Tell me about a time 
> that you had an
> disagreement with your manager. What was the disagreement 
> about and how did
> you resolve it?"

If I faced you in an interview, and you asked me that 
question, I'd probably have to make something up.

I simply don't remember stuff like that.

Of course, I've been blessed with either quite good 
or quite absent managers for the past ... er, many 
years.

Damn!  Now that I think about it, if I gave a truthful, 
off-the-cuff answer to the traits-you-hated question, 
I'd come off as Poly-Anna.  Except for one in the late 
1980s, I've been blessed with respect to the people I've 
reported to.  As I look back, they've all been good people 
who either adapted their approach to employees as necessary, 
or who happened to be locked into a management style that 
worked fine with me.  There's not more than one about whom 
I couldn't truthfully say I respected and liked them and 
would be pleased to renew the acquaintance.  Even the one 
who fired me -- well, ok, laid me off -- it was a nice 
touch that she had tears in her eyes at the time... :-)

(Of course there WAS that director named Cheri ______ whose 
resemblance to a Mac truck included her "management" style 
and personal sensitivity.  She was a single, brief exception 
in decades of employment and not a direct report.  Satan? 
Nah. Satan has more finesse.  One of the under-demons.)

But would you believe me in an interview? Hell, even *I* 
think I must be hiding something.

Aplomb.  Must work on aplomb. First, must locate round-tuit.

/k