i am starting to do some interviewing at work and it makes me appreciate all the people who have interviewed me in the past. let's face it, the whole interview process stinks but it's always good when people actually ask good questions. while we were going over who we needed to interview my boss said "you are totally into this, huh?" i laughed and told him i was. i guess i am a nerd like that, but it's fun the first time around.
i think my best interview was when the interviewer looked up everything i had listed on my resume (blog, online store etc.). they knew exactly where i was coming from. it made me feel appreciated and i could talk more fluently about my strengths/weaknesses. the worst question i've been asked was "what is the worst thing that has happened in your life and what did you do about it." this was for a financial position (which i thankfully did not get) and i had no idea how to relate my worst life experience to financial sales. to make matters worse, i have been blessed in my life time and haven't had anything too terrible happen so i had no clue what to say.
what is your best or worst interview experience? have you ever bombed one?
(i have! on that same financial interview i made myself seem like an OCD nut case. i kept talking about how organized i was and started making things because i was getting nervous. thankfully i can leave dave to all the financial busines and can do creative things)
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I think my best interview experience was when I was interviewed for a management position at Disney--because they didn't ask any stupid general questions "what are you strengths?" "what are your weaknesses?" and all that mess. The questions they asked were more specific to Disney. "What does diversity mean to you?" "What was the best thing you learned working in food prep here at Disney?" etc.
I have been through tons of bad interviews. Most of them were just interviews that included nothing but those aforementioned awful generalized questions that they've been taught they 'have' to ask. But my worst was probably for a "marketing" job...I still don't know what was up with this company. I arrived in my trendy business suit and sat in a reception room with a receptionist dressed in clothes that were NOT work appropriate, and about 10 other people my age or younger wearing clothes that were NOT interview appropriate. There was loud techno music blasting. When the guy called me into his office to interview, he was really boisterous. He told me all about the "job" (working 12-14 hour days, five days a week, some weekends, for something like $20k/year??? not kidding), didn't really ask me much of anything. I don't know if he knew I wouldn't be interested or what, but I walked out of there hoping he wouldn't call me...and thankfully he didn't.
I can't believe someone asked you to talk about the worst thing that ever happened to you. I know exactly what my answer to that question would be, but I'm not going to tell it to some random person interviewing me for a job!
Such a nice little blog, i like it ;)
Hi there! I'm a Boston-area blogger and couldn't help but notice that you name a lot of Massachusetts locations in your posts. Are you local? If so, I would love to add you to my Boston fashion blogroll. I may do a weekly roundup of posts at some point. Are you interested in being added? Please let me know! :)
Hillary, is the blog finished? Kaput?
I hate drawing a blank in an interview, I've had that happen a few times. When you just have NO idea what to say and all you can honestly answer is "I don't know"...
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Hillary,
Hope you have a very Merry Xmas! How is the wedding planning going? Are you still blogging?? Your loving natco fans are dying for an update.
hillary! we'd you go?!
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