Interview Advice

[fullyautomatix]

Gave it my best shot and definitely feel more comfortable for today's interview. Always get nervous for interviews, even if I'm not bothered about the job, which I find odd, really. Anyway will hear back from them later today. Initial feedback was positive, and the role sounds 100s of times better than it did on paper/via the agent.

Wear the shortest skirt you can manage and do a Basic Instinct, always works.

---FA in best interviewing techniques mode.

 

[eek]

Wear the shortest skirt you can manage and do a Basic Instinct, always works.

---FA in best interviewing techniques mode.

That explains how suity and Russell continue to get contracts..

 

[d000hg]

Gave it my best shot and definitely feel more comfortable for today's interview. Always get nervous for interviews, even if I'm not bothered about the job, which I find odd, really. Anyway will hear back from them later today. Initial feedback was positive, and the role sounds 100s of times better than it did on paper/via the agent.

Do let us know

 

[lukemg]

Had a taste of the old days yesterday. Contract job sourced through a contact, met the prog manager, 20 minute chat, offered it me there and then, start monday after pleasant 6 weeks on the bench 'let's play darts', good luck all !

 

[EternalOptimist]

No matter how ill-fitted you are for a role, you can always pick things up at an interview.
The last one I went to, I got two pens, a coaster and a stapler

 

[psychocandy]

Hmmm. Would be a bit concerned as to why other contractors bail after 3 months.

Could it be that they are one of those clients that expect 12 hour days to get their moneys worth out of their professional working day? Rate might not look so good then.

Saying that, Id go to the interview anyway and see what happens. Even if you end up taking the gig, you can always not renew like everyone else. (or if it is 12 hour expected, work 8 and see if they terminate).

 

[realityhack]

I was offered both contracts today.

Yesterday's interview seems like a manageable level of the usual sort of faff, despite the rumours, and a much more dynamic gig with better experience. I asked them about their reputation and they gave me logical answers that explain how contractors with a certain mindset would have bailed. The interviewers today seem to have lost the will to live, inside a big bureaucracy and have no appetite to do anything other than keep their pension ticking over.

No contest.

There's a spare seat on the bench now.

 

[EricBartlett]

There's a spare seat on the bench now.

 

[Freamon]

I was offered both contracts today.

Yesterday's interview seems like a manageable level of the usual sort of faff, despite the rumours, and a much more dynamic gig with better experience. I asked them about their reputation and they gave me logical answers that explain how contractors with a certain mindset would have bailed. The interviewers today seem to have lost the will to live, inside a big bureaucracy and have no appetite to do anything other than keep their pension ticking over.

No contest.

There's a spare seat on the bench now.

So the general consensus of General was correct? That's quite worrying.

 

[psychocandy]

I was offered both contracts today.

Yesterday's interview seems like a manageable level of the usual sort of faff, despite the rumours, and a much more dynamic gig with better experience. I asked them about their reputation and they gave me logical answers that explain how contractors with a certain mindset would have bailed. The interviewers today seem to have lost the will to live, inside a big bureaucracy and have no appetite to do anything other than keep their pension ticking over.

No contest.

There's a spare seat on the bench now.

Out of interest what did they mean by 'contractors with a certain mindset'?