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Hi everyone!
Barry wrote:
<snip>Standing up and walking out on an interview proves that the candidate
was not a professional.
Even if the interviewer is asking ridicules questions, be a professional and
try to answer them as best you can. If you discover during the interview that
you are not interested in the position, see the interview to its end.
I have a hard time agreeing with that. In the case of what Sharon wrote, nasty
and crass comments serve to prove that the *company* is unprofessional. If you
walk into a room for an interview and the first thing an employee does is say
something out of line, leave. Why? the market is too tight to sit and waste
your time being ridiculed with improper language and assumptions. I value my
time and, though I may sound harsh, I expect to be treated as a professional
at interviews because I am one. If they want to waste some one's time, that's
fine, but it will not be mine. Before my current gig, I was out of work for 5
months. When the market is tight, every second that passes can be a missed
opportunity. If you waste five hours in a degrading and ridiculous interview,
you may miss the phone call from the dream company, because you would be
wasting your time finishing an interview that is insulting to your
intelligence. Needing a job is no reason for a company to degrade a talented
individual. If job searching is a joke to the hiring company, they don't
really need that position filled anyway.
Just my not-so-humble-opinion (IMNSHO instead of IMHO).
-Anne
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