Comments on: How to Make Sure You Don’t Take a Job That Sucks

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:48:32 +0000

This is so true. This probably why a lot of my last job interviews have sucked. I was not that excited about the job. Also, I need to find someone to do mock interviews with. .-= AJ´s last blog ..Role Models =-.

By: class factotum

class factotum — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:04:30 +0000

Now that I think about it, I wasn't a great fit for some of those jobs. Did I really want to spend three weeks in China on a data conversion project? No. And I said so in the interview. Did I want to spend eight hours a day writing spreadsheets? No. And I said so. So maybe I just wasn't the right person for the job. OK. I feel better now. (I would have been good at those jobs, but I would have been miserable.) class factotum’s last blog post..

By: Kerry Sandberg Scott

Kerry Sandberg Scott — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:23:41 +0000

You don’t have to be perfect in an interview in order to get a job. In fact, companies who hire people based on their resume-writing or interviewing skills end up with a lot of bad hires, because you’re not hiring someone to be a professional candidate. You’re hiring them to do the job.

You can break lots of rules and still get hired. You can do everything perfectly and NOT get hired. You can’t take this career advice stuff too seriously.

By: class factotum

class factotum — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:55:44 +0000

I wish I had found you three years ago when I was still looking for a job! I had such bad interviews. I feel awful for having wasted the recruiter’s time, although I was serious about looking for a job and I would have been really good at the ones I did interview for. But I am a lousy interview — always have been, even though I have always been really good at work, I promise! — and reading your blog, I see things I did and and said that made me seem even worse.

I am like you in that I always want something challenging. I get bored easily (happens at home, too — my husband teases me because if he stops the movie to get more frozen custard, I will read my book for the three minutes he is gone) and want something to do. I like making things work at work but how do you make it sound like you’re not a big baby who just wants the fun stuff and won’t do the dull stuff, too?

The other thing I feel guilty about is that in my first interview here in Milwaukee, I didn’t tell them that the reason I wanted to move here was because my boyfriend was here (because I thought they would for sure offer me the job — they didn’t — and would offer a lower salary because they knew I wanted to come here anyhow). The HR lady was so nice and had offered me a ride home from the interview when she learned I was staying “with friends” in Franklin, where she lives. Oh, who were my friends? Maybe she knew them! And I kept spinning this web of lying by omission. I am sure she was wondering what on earth was wrong with me that I was so uncomfortable.

Here it is, three years later, and I keep hoping to run into her at a restaurant or the Pabst Theater so I can apologize for not telling her the truth.

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