Who Here Has Ever Interviewed People for A Job?

[Yavin4]

Does not Sarah Palin just drive you crazy? Does she not remind you of an applicant that's winging it, thinking that they're nailing the interview. When, all along, you're burning up inside because this moron is taking precious time out of your day because he/she is woefully inadequate for the position. Now, you will have to stay late to get your other work done, and you still have to hire someone for this position.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Haven't interviewed people, but I completely undestand the analogy. Well, heck, it's

more truth than analogy since she is indeed trying to impress voters into "hiring" her.

[amitten]

2. I think Katie Couric's face said it all. She looked disgusted and

annoyed by Palin's non-answers.

And Katie ain't the sharpest tool in the shed herself.

[Zuiderelle]

3. Yep, it's quite like that.

She wouldn't have gotten past the initial resume screening though. And if she did, she wouldn't have gotten past the phone interview.

[azmouse]

4. I have and agree with you.

And to top it off, the applicant thinks they'll actually get the job.

[Sodan]

5. All teachers can see through this behavior

[AlCzervik]

6. yes and she reminds me of applicant i ever interviewd that claimed to be a "Quick study"

and a "Self Starter". No, see you need to have the skill set for this job, the one you're interviewing for.

[MANative]

7. Yup - that's been my career for over 25 years...

and my current business is in teaching staffing professionals and companies how to do that effectively. Falin is a pure example of everything I tell people to look out for as pure bull. All fluff, no substance. Hey - you just gave me a great idea! I'm going to start using her interview tapes as the "bad" example for teaching purposes!!!! :hi:

[zulchzulu]

8. Palin reminds me of someone I hired because a friend said he "knew his shit"

I had a gig as a creative director at an advertising agency and wanted to get someone with certain programming skills to join the web team. A friend said he knew someone who would be great. I hired the guy, who told me he knew programming languages and showed me projects he later admitted he didn't work on. Plus he was an alcoholic who would show up late, hung over and clueless.

I had to fire the guy after a couple weeks of hell.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. Yes, you've described it flawlessly.

[kestrel91316]

10. She is unqualified for an entry level position at my cat hospital.

She just comes across all wrong - an intellectual lightweight with nothing of substance to say. And I know she would fuck up royally on phone duty and misquote my policies or some such nonsense. Or she would turn out to be afraid of cats. Or more likely just too lazy to do the frickin' WORK.

[TooRaLoo]

11. She absolutely does.

"Confidence confidence confidence. SMILE! Be assertive! So what if you don't know what you're talking aboot?"

[Hansel]

12. LOL. That is exactly what I was thinking when I was watching it.

Done more of these interviews that I care to think about. You just want to say "thanks sweetie, buh bye now."

[Hepburn]

13. I have...

...I was self-employed as a lawyer for many years before I retired and my office had a pretty large staff.

And, yeah, she does remind me of a couple of "legal secretary with experience" applicants who did not know a writ from a stipulation.

[parasim]

14. I have. and I totally agree with your analogy.

funny story...

I was design director at a big design firm and this guy comes in for a design job. Besides the fact that he obviously has no idea what he is talking about, he proceeds to show me "his" portfolio. Problem was he was showing me this design that he said he worked on at another company and I immediately recognized it as one of my own designs when I did some contract work for the very same company before he started working there.

Needless to say, I didn't hire him.

[rufus dog]

15. Doesn't drive me crazy - but agree with your basic premise

These type of people are usually recommended by a staff member. I spend about 10 minutes on these light weights and move on. By the end of the day the person who recommended the light weight clearly understands that his/her decision making process will always be questioned going forward. So yes, it was a waste of 10 minutes, but it provides great insight into your staff members capability.

[Rambis]

16. Like a student who never read the book

but it trying to BS an essay test? At least read the cliff notes? Sack a hammers!

[RoadRage]

17. Yes.. and frankly, i'm a much better bullshitter then she is.

I'm in "upper" management for a very large, well known corporation that would be in the fortune 500 if it were publicly traded. I hire middle to upper level directors positions a couple of times per year.

Her answers are aweful.. she forgets the question half way through and starts rambling, and dropping in "key words" even when they don't make sense. It's like she's trying to pepper google so she gets the most hits - but in an actual sentence, it makes no sense.

For Example the Question: Aside from the recent Frannie / Freddie bail out, explain another time in the past 26 years that McCain has been FOR Regulation.

Here's my BS off the cuff answer: "Katie, this IS the first time John's been on this side of regulation. Our stance is to let the markets work themselves out, and to let capitalism reighn, and it's because the US has a society that thrives on capitolism that our country is the best in the world. This is the first time in 26 years that we have to step in and save the American people from a very greedy few. It's dishartening to see that the greed on wallstreet has grown larger then the protections put into place. John McCain is a maverick, and he will do what he needs to do to help American's when he sees its the best alternative to improve their livlyhoods.

Do I AGREE with that statement? Hell no! But nothing Palin says is going to be something I agree with. However.. the BS i just threw out there is much better then the gibberish she actually ranted.. and she's a politician.. she's been "practicing.. and she has handlers to tell her how to do this stuff. I'm merely a Sales Exec - but I'm a pretty good bullshitter. ;)

[JuniperLea]

18. One minute in, it becomes "the courtesy interview"

Where you start asking about family, pets, thread counts on the sheets you got on sale, and the obligatory, "in which computer programs would you consider yourself to be proficient?" I'm sure Palin would say, "In what respect, JuniperX?"


:rofl:

[undeterred]

19. How hard would it have been for her to study up for

the interview with Couric? All she would have to be doing was read a few current newspapers and study up on McCains record- which she should have done by now anyway- and she could at least have come up with an answer to every question. Its as if she expected only softballs.

[karynnj]

20. I have and yes that is a feeling I had

Luckily, I worked for a large corporation and the other side of my brain was storing stuff for the discussion of the candidate with my peers assigned to the same applicant - just knowing that we would all see it the same.

[yellowcanine]

21. Yes I have and yes she would be considered a "bad" interview. The "I didn't blink"

answer alone would have sunk her in my book. Nothing worse than a candidate who is overconfident about challenges that they cannot possibly know about.

[madwivoter]

22. Yep

That's exactly right. They're wasting your time by blathering bullshit answers, then, because you are obligated to listen to their answers (simply because you don't want to be rude), they blather even longer thinking that they're kicking ass. Catch 22 there...

And yes, your work still has to be done at the end of the day...unfortunately there isn't an "undo" button to get your wasted time back.

If a 527 ad could go out tomorrow, I'd like it to read

John and Sarah think you're stupid.

[frogmarch]

23. She's no more qualified

for the job than the young earthers I interviewed who'd applied for tour guide positions at the paleontological site where I worked that contained 26,000 year-old fossils.

[Bake]

24. "Thank you for coming in ... you'll be hearing from us"

As you escort them to the door. Quickly.

Bake