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Originally posted by d000hg View PostDon'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.
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
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostSimilarly insecure female managers try to chop your willy off, then out-butch yuo, as an alternative to waving what they haven't got.
hth
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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
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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.
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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
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Dont worry we all have tulip interviews. I remember a couple of times I've had a crap interview, whereby I wasnt really up to it. Got offered the job both times and turned it down.
Sometimes you just dont know. But least the good thing is you know what does and what doesnt work for you.
Learning experience.
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Originally posted by chris79 View PostI should really know the answer to this but I don't, but what are the implications of this exactly?
Baaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyysickly, if you do not insist on "opting out" of the Emplyment Agency Act before you are put forward, you are opted in. Its up to you as to whether you want to opt in or out, but I prefer out as I like to steer as far away from IR35 as possible.
Opting in means you get protection, and if the agency does not get paid they still have to pay you. Also they can slap on handcuff clauses and get a sum for you if you go perm with ClientCo in the end.
If you opt out, you have no protection and are liable for your own work etc etc. Opting out is only a "minor" indication of being IR35 out, but it all helps.
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of course not!
I sounded like an agent asking there
my next guess would be MS or Google though!
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Sounds like a permie interveiw i had at the council a while back, 3 people in a tiny office and was for a technical role. They started with all the technical questions, no probs, then they started asking me loads about project management, which was not advertised or included in my CV and i know very little about, and I basicaly fell apart from there.
Normally i'm good at interveiws, in that if i get an interveiw i get the job, but this time i was very nervous, possibly because i hated my then current job and wanted to get out! I was sweating, stammering, all sorts of tulip, was horrible! Normally I'd just sit there and wax lyrical about how great I am, and how i manage to turn my weaknesses into advantages; much like the jesus of IT.
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