Comments on: The joy of interviewing http://4.flowsnake.org/archives/752 A Pythoneer's adventures with Scheme, etc. Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:37:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Vll http://4.flowsnake.org/archives/752/comment-page-1#comment-619 Vll Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:54:14 +0000 http://4.flowsnake.org/?p=752#comment-619 Why won't you brag about your achievements? Explain more about what they do etc. If I was the interviewer, I'd hire the guy who did Wax in a heartbeat. Why won’t you brag about your achievements? Explain more about what they do etc.

If I was the interviewer, I’d hire the guy who did Wax in a heartbeat.

]]> By: Paddy3118 http://4.flowsnake.org/archives/752/comment-page-1#comment-617 Paddy3118 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:29:06 +0000 http://4.flowsnake.org/?p=752#comment-617 You could try a bit of 'simulated annealing'. Sit down and blatantly oversell yourself in a new resume. Make it over the top, but still tentatively rooted in reality. Read it out loud. To someone else if you can. Several times. Have a laugh, then sit down and compare it with your other resumes. If you take out the lies, and reduce some of the exaggeration, what is left? Repeat as necessary.... All the best! You could try a bit of ‘simulated annealing’.

Sit down and blatantly oversell yourself in a new resume. Make it over the top, but still tentatively rooted in reality.

Read it out loud. To someone else if you can. Several times.

Have a laugh, then sit down and compare it with your other resumes.

If you take out the lies, and reduce some of the exaggeration, what is left?

Repeat as necessary….

All the best!

]]> By: Liam McLennan http://4.flowsnake.org/archives/752/comment-page-1#comment-616 Liam McLennan Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:30:33 +0000 http://4.flowsnake.org/?p=752#comment-616 I suggest practice. Having done dozens of interviews, on both sides of the desk, I am now 100x better at it than I used to be. Confidence is extremely important. Interviewers judge your ability to perform based on your confidence. If you look like you're not confident then why should they think that you can handle the job? I suggest practice. Having done dozens of interviews, on both sides of the desk, I am now 100x better at it than I used to be.

Confidence is extremely important. Interviewers judge your ability to perform based on your confidence. If you look like you’re not confident then why should they think that you can handle the job?

]]> By: Grant Rettke http://4.flowsnake.org/archives/752/comment-page-1#comment-614 Grant Rettke Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:23:12 +0000 http://4.flowsnake.org/?p=752#comment-614 This is one of those cases where you can't trust your feelings and you need to do what the market demands; at least for 80% of the jobs out there. This is one of those cases where you can’t trust your feelings and you need to do what the market demands; at least for 80% of the jobs out there.

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