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1.: Article: How being Desperate and Unprepared Killed My Job Interview

Posted by: "Eric Nilsson" ericnilsson@earthlink.net norsemantechnology

Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:20 pm (PDT)

How being Desperate and Unprepared Killed My Job Interview

By Luke Roney, CareerBliss Editor on March 8, 2012

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I knew, as it was happening, that the job interview was going badly. The guy
asking the questions - the managing editor at a mid-size Southern California
daily - had lost interest in me quickly. He put his feet up on his desk and
began eating his lunch.

I sat wordlessly as he ate. The crunch of teeth tearing through lettuce was
the only sound in his closet of an office.

Finally the city editor, at that point unaware of my poor showing, came and
got me. He led me to a computer for a writing test. Then he headed back to
the managing editor's office.

The time limit on the writing exercise was 20 minutes. I finished and
waited.

And waited.

Nearly an hour later, the city editor returned.

"Oh," he said. "You're still here?"

See Luke's answer here:
http://www.careerbliss.com/advice/how-being-desperate-and-unprepared-killed-
my-job-interview/

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