I'm the newest investment accountant at BNY Mellon

[Elok]

...so one way or the other, this ends soon.

Good. This is ridiculous. Everyone has dreams, but constantly sacrificing every other prospect for a dream even as it becomes increasingly unlikely is not heroic or admirable. It's just dumb.

[self biased]

I thought you graduated college.

i mean, it was clown college, but in Alby's defense, he did graduate rubrum Flexilis naribus

[DaShi]

Oh, did you use the cover letter I wrote for you? I'll bet that's what got you in.

[Dauphin]

Ah, if only this would have made you KH's coffee monkey.

Well done nevertheless.

[Al B. Sure!]

Oh, did you use the cover letter I wrote for you? I'll bet that's what got you in.

Cover letter? No I posted the one I used.

I think the interview is what did it. I knew if I could get an interview at any place, I'll get the job because I'm oh so charming. What I do is try to find a common interest and talk about that with the interviewer. I ask the interviewer more questions, including personal questions, than they ask me. The first guy I interviewed with (James), we were talking about running and running shoes, he lives about a mile from me and told me how he wants to move closer to the job but his wife wants to stay in the Fishtown-area; he later expressed interest in moving to Ireland (yes, that tells you how much of a personal convo this was and not an interview) and I joked with him that it would be a tough-sell to his wife if he can't get her to agree to move just across the state line!

The second interviewer was a woman (Harriet). I could tell her last name was Ghanaian and I asked her about Ghana; she was thoroughly impressed and I asked her if it bought me any brownie points and she did the whole bashful smiling thing that women do when they think you're charming. I also kept making her laugh and smile.

Between the two of them, I don't think we talked more than a few sentences about my qualifications, education, work history, or anything but personal topics with a little about the job.

The final interviewer (Mark) was an older guy who did explain a lot more and I asked him about the changes in the industry over the past few years, since it was evidently of significant interest to him. That was the closest to personal conversation we got. He did ask me about what happened at Wells Fargo and I leveled with him but he apparently wasn't concerned with it.

The thing is if you become their friend, they'll want to hire you because who doesn't want to work with someone they have an instant repoire with? That's ultimately what's going on in their heads when they interview: can I and my co-workers work alongside this guy?

Oh yeah and I use their names heavily, like I'm in sales. It was a month ago, but I still know their names.


It may come to a shock to people here but I'm actually good with people. I was killing my sales quota at Wells Fargo for a reason.


If KH could ever have just gotten HR to interview me at GS, I'd be in like Flynn. Guaranteed.

[regexcellent]

I think GS likes good judgment and trying to become a marine officer so many times is not a demonstration of good judgment.

[KrazyHorse]

Congratulations al. Please don't **** this up by quitting to try to become a marine again.

[regexcellent]

He's going for the reserves this time, which is an improvement.

[Al B. Sure!]

He's going for the reserves this time, which is an improvement.

I have no choice. No more active duty til October 2013, barring another war.

[Wiglaf]

Cover letter? No I posted the one I used.

I think the interview is what did it. I knew if I could get an interview at any place, I'll get the job because I'm oh so charming.

Some interviews test more than your ability to bull****

[The Mad Monk]

Yes, but he's not trying for an IT job.

[Wiglaf]

When I hired people on the Hill, standard interview questions included, who was president in 1963, give me two reasons Paul Ryan isn't as smart as everyone thinks he is, what do you think of the EPA, and what is the easiest way to piss Chuck Schumer off when you see him on the subway. There's no charming way to answer those questions without FACTS.

[-Jrabbit]

...someone they have an instant repoire with...

...as long as it's not graded for spelling.

"rapport"

[Lorizael]

...who was president in 1963...

A better question is who was president in 1841.

[Al B. Sure!]

A better question is who was president in 1841.

Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!