Interview

[framework]

Had the same type of interview last thursday.

Just seemed like a kind of informal chat, what is your current rate?
how much notice do you need to give?
are you interested in the role?

what i thought was weird was that the only notes they took was when i told them the rate i was on in my current role.
Surely if you were interviewing a load of candidates you would be taking notes!!

went pretty well i thought, with the conversation and questions flowing both ways, but i still haven't heard anything.

Spoke to the agent and they said that co HR haven't spoken to the manager concerned,
i smell a rat i think, hopefully it hasn't been a wasted journey (300 mile round trip) but we will see.

i have every sympathy with your situation

[NotAllThere]

Top companies don't all muck around with pre-interview and in-depth interrogation. The fact is, and as any interviewer worth their salt should know, the decision is made within 10 minutes in the majority of interviews. When you've interviewed all the candidates you wanted to see, it's very rare that you've not got a favourite.

All the rest is just HR justifying it's existence, or manager willy-waving.

In twenty years in the industry, I've interviewed scores of contractors and dozens of permies.

Don't worry about, even in this climate, they're most likely a company you don't want to work for anyway. And the dry mouth and mind going blank are simply your immune system kicking in, defending you against the threat of permiedom.

[bobhope]

permiedoooom

[PM-Junkie]

....or manager willy-waving.

My last three clients have been of the female persuasion. I wonder how they accomplished this? Presumably they didn't do it during office hours....

[NotAllThere]

Similarly insecure female managers try to chop your willy off, then out-butch yuo, as an alternative to waving what they haven't got.

hth

[oracleslave]

Similarly insecure female managers try to chop your willy off, then out-butch yuo, as an alternative to waving what they haven't got.

hth

A good 'seeing to' in the stationery cupboard during the first week normally prevents this issue.

[OwlHoot]

Don't agree. An up-themselves company will spend the whole time telling you how great they are, not let you do most of the talking.

and regardless of the company an up-themselves interviewer often starts hogging the interview talking about themselves or the project in too much detail.

But if this goes on throughout then they aren't doing you any favours, because after the interview they'll realise they've learned little about you, or conclude that you're too feeble to have made any impression, and either way reject you.

So if an interviewer starts going off on a tangent or talking for too long, I gently but firmly butt in and get them back on what should be the main topic - me, and my past glorious achievements and advantages for the client

[Doggy Styles]

A good 'seeing to' in the stationery cupboard during the first week normally prevents this issue.

Yes, a good rogering.