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Doing the Gig (interview)

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    #11
    Don't like phone interviews cos' it doesn't make a difference then whether I wear a short skirt or not
    Chico, what time is it?

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      #12
      I promise you that every phone interview you have had with a bloke you have been wearing a very short skirt and a low cut top, you may even have done the interview in your sexiest underwear.

      HTH
      I am not qualified to give the above advice!

      The original point and click interface by
      Smith and Wesson.

      Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time

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        #13
        Interesting being on the other side of the interview process. Feck me, but you do get some feckwits!
        Hard Brexit now!
        #prayfornodeal

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          #14
          Originally posted by The Lone Gunman
          I promise you that every phone interview you have had with a bloke you have been wearing a very short skirt and a low cut top, you may even have done the interview in your sexiest underwear.

          HTH
          Me too, I always dress in my string vest and wellingtons whilst doing phone interviews ...

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            #15
            I've done several phone interviews this week (as interviewer) - If only people would realise how important it is to sound confident and, at the same time, not to fill in the gaps with waffle. Don't wander off down blind alleys - I'm not in the least bit interested in how some team got on in some kind of ball game somewhere.

            On the other hand, when it turns out we have a mutual acquaintance .........

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              #16
              Originally posted by BlasterBates
              Fail most interviews actually, then again the interviews I attended, they failed virtually everybody who turned up, readvertised several times and took several months to find the "right person".

              Sometimes I passed the written test and failed the verbal test, sometimes I passed the verbal test and failed the written test...sometimes passed both but got pipped by a "better" candidate.

              Confidence doesn't help when faced with a battery of trick questions, either you can annswer them or you can't.

              The only "positive" thing I've found is that I'm put forward for 90% of the roles I apply for, but then the agent seems to be desparate to find somebody who can pass the tests.

              I fail 90% of interviews, anywhere, although I can get an interview at nearly any company in the UK. Getting interviews is easy if you have a good CV. However, I usually only get the job if there is a good reason why they should pick me. Like BB, I am in a buyer's market and it turns into a beauty competition the greater the supply of candidates.

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                #17
                Originally posted by Rebecca Loos
                Don't like phone interviews cos' it doesn't make a difference then whether I wear a short skirt or not
                funny - stop it tring to concentrate on fixing a server in Brazil and I just have to keep coming back to thinking of your short skirt!
                SA says;
                Well you looked so stylish I thought you batted for the other camp - thats like the ultimate compliment!

                I couldn't imagine you ever having a hair out of place!

                n5gooner is awarded +5 Xeno Geek Points.
                (whatever these are)

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock
                  Me too, I always dress in my string vest and wellingtons whilst doing phone interviews ...
                  has images of a Montey Python schetch...

                  SA says;
                  Well you looked so stylish I thought you batted for the other camp - thats like the ultimate compliment!

                  I couldn't imagine you ever having a hair out of place!

                  n5gooner is awarded +5 Xeno Geek Points.
                  (whatever these are)

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                    #19
                    Me too, I always dress in my string vest and wellingtons whilst doing phone interviews ...
                    And having worked with said gentleman, I can vouch for him going to work like that as well
                    Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by n5gooner
                      funny - stop it tring to concentrate on fixing a server in Brazil and I just have to keep coming back to thinking of your short skirt!
                      She has that effect on me too, as do the other girlies on this site.
                      They should all do the decent thing and send us the pictures we want to see.
                      I am not qualified to give the above advice!

                      The original point and click interface by
                      Smith and Wesson.

                      Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time

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