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comment by lil
lil  ·  3200 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 15, 2015

GOOD LUCK TNG GOOD LUCK

10 interviews is amazing. Clearly your resume or contacts or both are GETTING you the interviews. That's the hardest thing for most people. I'm glad you had "two great interviews." You didn't ask for my thoughts - but I'll dump them down anyway. Might be helpful for someone:

I wonder if there's a way you can change your internal experience. Instead of seeing it as being "judged for an hour" - maybe take the attitude that you and the interviewer are sharing some time together for the best possible mutual outcome. You want to help the company find the best candidate. Kind of like a courtship. Courtship, sigh.

The trick is to be both confident and humble. You are the smartest and most dedicated, but you also know you have a lot to learn. You know you have a lot to learn, but you also know that you are a quick learner.

In one job interview, I told the interviewer this: "I think I know what you are looking for - you want someone who will energize the department, who will be innovative and create a lot of partnerships with other departments." -- something like that. Actually, the interviewer had not framed what he was looking for in quite that way.

My statement got their attention and eventually got me the job.





_refugee_  ·  3198 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hi lil just wanted to say don't ever leave

And if you do at least holler out a "bye" first.

lil  ·  3198 days ago  ·  link  ·  

thx ref. I'm not going anywhere.