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    #41
    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    I too look like a bit of a gangster, but I have an excellent technique for disarming them.

    I make the b@stards line up against the wall, legs apart, quick frisk, ask them who wants to first, then make them an offer they cant refuse



    lol

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      #42
      Originally posted by juststarting View Post
      Good Idea , In fact my next suit may as well be pinkish.... I mean , i shouldnt be actually considering buying a pink suit for the purpose of softening my first impressions. It is against man's nature....
      Maybe try with a pink shirt to start with, people might not take you seriously if you turn up in the full ensemble
      ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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        #43
        Stick with the black polo neck and jeans look. Since you had your liver transplant and lost a bit of weight it suits you.

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          #44
          Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
          Discrimination, dont talk to me about discrimination.
          My skills are ace, my body language is perfect and my firm handshake and steely eye contact has them drooling for me.

          Then as soon as I say 'good mornin like' , they all stand , thunderstruck.

          'watch out, check yer hubcaps, see if he got yer watch. Cover the wastebasket its a bin dipper'

          Then they phone the team upstairs and they all troop down to gawk at me, like Im a specimin in the zoo. Then security escort me to the car park, hold me down and people come from miles around just to kick sand in my face.

          about 75% actually



          I knew a scouser who took elocution lessons to avoid precisely that problem.

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            #45
            Originally posted by Platypus View Post
            I knew a scouser who took elocution lessons to avoid precisely that problem.
            A stint in the army, plus working away alot, have taken the edge off my accent.
            You have to talk differently if you want people to understand you. Now when I go home, they all call me a traitor and a wooly-back-gaylord

            you just can't win


            (\__/)
            (>'.'<)
            ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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              #46
              Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
              Now when I go home, they all call me a traitor and a wooly-back-gaylord
              Solution: Just don't home. They'll only nick your alloys anyway.
              ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                #47
                Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
                Solution: Just don't home. They'll only nick your alloys anyway.


                I dont have alloys

                I'll set em up, you knock em down
                (\__/)
                (>'.'<)
                ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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                  #48
                  Originally posted by swamp View Post
                  I love hearing this! More contractors that turn up badly dressed the better!

                  I wear a good conservative suit every single time. Doesn't matter it it's a nu medja outfit sitting on bean bags or an investment bank, I will look smart and be prepared. And it needs to be a good suit, though not too flash, so I avoid Hugo Boss and definitely not Paul Smith or Botang!
                  I know a contractor who has been benched 7 months, and does not think his very tight fitting (in some parts) Botang with bright pink shirt is the problem

                  Can't help some people
                  Fiscal nomad it's legal.

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                    #49
                    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post


                    I dont have alloys

                    I'll set em up, you knock em down
                    You should have stayed out of Liverpool




                    Gooooooollaaaaazo
                    ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                      #50
                      Now I feel stupid. Whats a Botang
                      (\__/)
                      (>'.'<)
                      ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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