Doing the Gig (interview)

[AlfredJPruffock]

has images of a Montey Python schetch...

Blimey N5

Been rumbled at last, thats me and the Gumby Bros , Im the good looking one in case you are wondering ... oddly enough altough I never fail to impress with telephone interviews yet when I turn up for face to face interview I am always immediately escorted off the premises.

Life is so unfair.

[Joe Black]

Well thats when you're meant to send Rebecca along in your place. If you get the job, when you turn up, you just tell them you've had another sex change.

Joe in "it always works for me"

[FrankScribe]

I have the advantage of being a relatively scarce resource, the only problem is that the market place is also fairly small (and incestuous) - Having said that, over the last fifteen years I have only failed on three formal interviews, and one of those led to an offer from another group within the same company - though I didn't take it in the end cos it would have meant working in Town (I'll happily drive for an hour or more but commute by train, yeughhh!)

[n5gooner]

I have the advantage of being a relatively scarce resource,

doing what ?

writing good policy for Blair ?

[FrankScribe]

Writing good policy for AB - Even I am not that rare an animal, I think that would have endangered species status

[n5gooner]

Writing good policy for AB - Even I am not that rare an animal, I think that would have endangered species status

but very well paid!

[mcquiggd]

Over the last 6 years, my telephone interview rate is about 3 out of 4, face to face interview rate ever so slightly higher.

Technical questions - no problem, scored higher than 97% of people on a C# Brainbench test that Logica CMG put me through (I get the results, and ironically knew the girlfriend of a lady HR person there - just dont ask!)

Have my MCSD in .Net, have been given Transcenders to do, always do well... now 14 years in the industry... Dev Manager, Lead Dev, etc etc....

But, its down to 'how well you'll fit in' - if the permie techie who is brought in to ask you questions can only mumble 'I have nothing to add really' after youve talked through your CV, you know your fecked, as he doesnt want you to make him look stupid and will bad mouth you to his boss.

Sometimes I feel like they wanted me to act like Forrest Gump in an interview, hire me, then blame me.

[Lucifer Box]

Sometimes I feel like they wanted me to act like Forrest Gump in an interview, hire me, then blame me.

Lucifer Industries specialise in what we like to call "Blame Consultancy". If you are a project or programme manager who is in a bit of hot water (you know the thing, cowboy contract developers have been pulling the wool over your eyes about how much "progress" they've made) and are going to seriously compromise your annual appraisal after the next meeting with the project sponsor, we have the answer.

For a fixed, one off fee, we will send a consultant to your next stakeholders' meeting who will tell them that "it's all his fault". You are off the hook, the blame and the buck is neatly passed to an outside agency and everybody is happy. For an additional fee, a "senior consultant" can also be provided to describe how you are one of the most competent programme/project managers we have ever worked with.