Thread: interviews

Any good interview story's??

I just had one... not sure I am prepared to talk about it yet lol! Let's just say, it wasn't the most orthodox lol! They started with, "what questions do you have for us?". Doesn't that come last lol?

Well the only ones to have interviewed me have been the police. It was a long time ago but is still not a subject I choose to discuss.

I've been to several interviews that were nothing more than a ruse to collect data and your email address, and create store traffic.
('aka 'job fair') My inbox spam reflects this. I'm willing to bet they never really hire anybody.

I got a job as assistant corporate counsel for this summer, and one of the things I was asked during my interview was, "so, tell me about this straight razor hobby, that sounds interesting."



Yes, yes I will tell you about it.

Originally Posted by JoelLewicki

I got a job as assistant corporate counsel for this summer, and one of the things I was asked during my interview was, "so, tell me about this straight razor hobby, that sounds interesting."



Yes, yes I will tell you about it.

Dude!! Just like a lawyer to put on his CV that he likes sharp cutting things lol!!! Anyone else wouldn't even get an interview lol!

Congrats on the position!

What's an interview? The last one I had was going on 40 years ago. Can't remember what was said but it must have gone OK retiring 34 years after it.

Bob

Originally Posted by earcutter

Any good interview story's??

I just had one... not sure I am prepared to talk about it yet lol! Let's just say, it wasn't the most orthodox lol! They started with, "what questions do you have for us?". Doesn't that come last lol?

So long as they didn't ask you about politics David,,,I'm sure it went well,,,,,,

Originally Posted by RezDog

Well the only ones to have interviewed me have been the police. It was a long time ago but is still not a subject I choose to discuss.

Ah,,,but we found a video of Shaun's interview,,,,,,,

My medical school interview at Rush Medical College was pretty strange...those things generally follow a fairly standardized script. But this one was weird from the git-go.

I walked into the interviewer's office, and was waved to a chair without a word. He ignored me while he continued working at his desk for what seemed like an eternity. Then he picked up a folder with my name on it, and leafed through it as if it was the first time he'd seen it. Without looking up, he asked, "I see that you took a class studying Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales...in the original Middle English, no less. Why would a pre-med student take a course like that?"

I was stunned! There had been no greeting, no hand shake, no introduction, and no ice-breaking chatting; just this off the wall question. None of my other interviews were anything like this! So I told him that I had many interests, and that some of them had little or nothing to do with medicine, and that I believed it was important to have a well-rounded, diverse education. After a moment, and still without looking up from my folder, he said, "Good answer. Do you recall which text the class used?" "Absolutely", I said, "it's one of my favorites, so I kept it", and I told him the name of the book. This time he looked at me, and said, "That's also a good answer; I helped write that textbook." So, it turned out that my interviewer was a Chaucer scholar!

The rest of the interview followed the norm, and I left feeling like I'd aced it. But I didn't get accepted at Rush, though I was eventually offered a spot as an alternate.

Originally Posted by Dzanda

My medical school interview at Rush Medical College was pretty strange...those things generally follow a fairly standardized script. But this one was weird from the git-go.

I walked into the interviewer's office, and was waved to a chair without a word. He ignored me while he continued working at his desk for what seemed like an eternity. Then he picked up a folder with my name on it, and leafed through it as if it was the first time he'd seen it. Without looking up, he asked, "I see that you took a class studying Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales...in the original Middle English, no less. Why would a pre-med student take a course like that?"

I was stunned! There had been no greeting, no hand shake, no introduction, and no ice-breaking chatting; just this off the wall question. None of my other interviews were anything like this! So I told him that I had many interests, and that some of them had little or nothing to do with medicine, and that I believed it was important to have a well-rounded, diverse education. After a moment, and still without looking up from my folder, he said, "Good answer. Do you recall which text the class used?" "Absolutely", I said, "it's one of my favorites, so I kept it", and I told him the name of the book. This time he looked at me, and said, "That's also a good answer; I helped write that textbook." So, it turned out that my interviewer was a Chaucer scholar!

The rest of the interview followed the norm, and I left feeling like I'd aced it. But I didn't get accepted at Rush, though I was eventually offered a spot as an alternate.

That's a great story!!