Once again - interview tips

[SpencerH]

This isnt an interview tip but when you send a response to a job advertisement it helps to spell all the words correctly and use proper grammar. This is especially important when one is declaring that "they speak and write english real goods".

[Japher]

They speak and write English real well?

[SlowwHand]

Pekka, answer the questions they ask as directly as you can manage.

[Solly]

Originally posted by Japher
They speak and write English real well?

Pretty hard to get through an interview if you don't speak..

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Well, first, remember that "doctorage" is not a word.

More seriously, my strategy (and this has always worked; I've been offered every job I ever interviewed for) is to treat the interview not as a job interview but as a friendly conversation between two (or however many) professionals in the field. Candidates who go into "job interview" mode tend to act like nervous, people-pleasing supplicants, which is very unattractive. Candidates who go in acting like confident (but not arrogant) professionals, on the other hand, tend to project competence, thoughtfulness, and collegiality -- values prized by most institutions.

And dress well. Short of wearing a tux, there's no such thing as overdressing for an interview. If you get there and find that the office has a t-shirt-and-jeans culture and you feel like a doofus in a suit, you can always jokingly say just that; it'll show them that you will be comfortable in their office culture, but nevertheless have enough respect for the process to have dressed well.

[Pekka]

Rufus, oh, I'm sorry, but that word is still used a lot with doctoral as well.

If you want to make love to dots in here, you know, why not just kill yourself or at least be right?

You're just full of crappy advices, aren't you?

DIE please

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Pekka
Rufus, oh, I'm sorry, but that word is still used a lot with doctoral as well.

Not by people who actually speak English, it's not.

If you want to make love to dots in here, you know, why not just kill yourself or at least be right?

I am. Show me a contemporary, English-language dictionary with the word "doctorage" in it. I've just checked the OED and its not there, so good luck.

You're just full of crappy advices, aren't you?

DIE please

Okay, here's some (more) non-crappy advise: arrogant little douchebags who are so insecure that they are provoked by simply, winking-smiley-flagged correction, and then persist in being dead wrong, rarely get the job. How's that?

[Pekka]

That's because I spelled it wrong, doctorate, not doctorage.

So not really a problem, but thanks for noticing. Maybe now you can die?

[Solly]

Nobody got my joke..

[Wiglaf]

Was an outstanding joke