Re:Advice for Job Seekers

["Patricia Castin (Trish)" <pcastin -at- dset -dot- com>]

Ruth Lundquist asked in a post for Interview stories...

I had one woman come into an interview who was wearing so much makeup, her 
eyelashes were sticking together.  All through the interview she was 
constantly opening her eyes as wide a possible to "unstick" them.  I was so 
fascinated by the contortions of her face that I was having trouble paying 
attention to her words!

I also have had the interviewees who corrected  and re-worded my questions 
and statements.  I had one who told me repeatedly how "great she was at 
communicating with others".    She never let me finish a sentence, so she 
was always answering questions that I wasn't trying to ask.  All I really 
wanted to say to her was, "Communication is not just you talking to someone 
else.  It's also you being able to LISTEN to what's being said."  I 
understand the "interview jitters", but this was not a newbie.  She had 
Many Years of experience and should have known better...

On a positive note regarding interviews:  Show the interviewer The Real 
You.  I WANT to hire people with a sense of humor.  If you don't have one, 
you can't play on my team...  I had one interviewee recently that Would Not 
drop his "interview face".  Since I couldn't see "the man behind the mask", 
I was naturally concerned about what he'd be like after the 
interview...  To sum up:  Be Yourself!  Show 'em what you got and let it 
shine!




Trish Castin
Lead Technical Writer
DSET Corporation
908-526-7500 ext. 1333

"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n putting' it back in."