Putting out Fires

1. Black jeans are not considered business attire

2. Don’t use job-specific jargon which makes no sense to any of the interviewers

3. Don’t make fun of the state you’re applying for a job in.

4. Don’t tell the interviewers that you’re looking for a  job to get you ‘in the door’.

5. If its on your resume, you should at least remember that you did it.

6. Picking at invisible specs of dust on the table in front of you does not convince us that you are relaxed in a speaking role, which is basically the MAJORITY of what your new job would be.

7. If you got ’let go’ at your previous job, don’t go into a 15 minute story about how it happened.

8. Learn how to use at least ONE Microsoft Office application. It is not good when you can only admit to being able to use Word if someone sets up the format for you beforehand.

9.  Don’t call the hiring manager and leave a message requesting that your interview time be changed for the THIRD time because you have to take your pet to the vet. 

10.  At least read the job req so you have a basic idea what the job is that you are interviewing for.

OK, so not that the Internet noticed, but I’ve been gone SOOO long.  I know, I know, its been since Sunday, but it felt like FOREVER when I had so much stuff to say of little interest in the past few days. 

Of no interest right now:  my utter revulsion at the fact that Aaron asked Hayden to marry him as they got their collective asses kicked off The Amazing Race.