{"id":992,"date":"2008-11-25T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=992"},"modified":"2008-11-25T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T20:45:08","slug":"you-dont-want-to-hire-me-do-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2008\/11\/you-dont-want-to-hire-me-do-you\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t want to hire me, do you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loathe job interviews.  They are, in fact, the thing I am worst at: selling myself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m bad at this because I&#8217;m an introvert (yes, I know, all evidence to the contrary) or because I am, at base, somehow convinced that I&#8217;m <a href=\"javascript:popUp('\/woodstock\/weblog\/images\/ataaboc-continuum.gif')\"><acronym title=\"all that and a bag of chips\">ATAABOC<\/acronym><\/a> and just don&#8217;t understand why everyone else doesn&#8217;t immediate perceive that and judge me based on my concrete achievements rather than whether or not I hold up well under direct questioning.  I&#8217;m going to go with some of both, heavily weighted toward the introvert explanation.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, when a job interview goes really bad, I can usually tell.  Like one I had a couple of years ago where the department supervisor asked me how I would handle on a Monday morning the work flow on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a press release for a press conference happening that afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>a request for a web site update from a department that hadn&#8217;t updated their content in 6 months.<\/li>\n<li>a change request for something that was incorrect on the site.<\/li>\n<li>a request from a senior manager for training a new staff member.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I didn&#8217;t know it was physically impossible I would say that a sign lit up over my head that read &#8220;I&#8217;ve got 8 years&#8217; experience in my field and you&#8217;re asking me how I&#8217;d prioritize these tasks.  You&#8217;re shitting me.&#8221;  Regardless, that was the moment that I not only blew my chances at that job but also decided that I didn&#8217;t want to work there anyway.<\/p>\n<p>How today&#8217;s went, I don&#8217;t know.  I just keep reminding myself: I am interviewing them as much as they are interviewing me and anyone who hires me is lucky to get me.  I&#8217;m not perfect (no one is) but I&#8217;m damn good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loathe job interviews. They are, in fact, the thing I am worst at: selling myself. I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m bad at this because I&#8217;m an introvert (yes, I know, all evidence to the contrary) or because I am, at base, somehow convinced that I&#8217;m ATAABOC and just don&#8217;t understand why everyone else doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nablopomo2008","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}