Re: Interview Questions (deliberately veering from techie vsnon-t echie...) -Reply -Reply

[Dawn-Marie Oliver <Dawn-Marie -at- XPENSE -dot- COM>]

        My personal favorite question I have used, both asking the
person
        interviewing me, and asking people I have interviewed is"

        "What color pen do you use to edit, and why?"

         I have heard a lot of responses.  One guy said black (I guess
someone
        missed a lot of his comments), pencil (same), always red (that
was "the
        way you did these things"), green, purple, whatever was handy.

        The most interesting response was from a man who had just been
working
        in Japan for 4 years.  He said:  "I never use red--in Japan,
when you use
        red, you are telling someone you wish them dead/ill will."

        I'm mostly looking at whether or not they are sensitive to the
"red pen/
        English teacher" fear many people have (the last job I was at,
we did
        a lot of editing for each other, and others in the company), or
that
        comments would disappear (black/pencil).

        Just my $0.02.

                Dawn-Marie Oliver
                dawn-marie -at- xpense -dot- com

                These words and opinions are mine!  Portable and I
prefer it that way.