{"id":221,"date":"2006-08-09T08:28:57","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=221"},"modified":"2006-08-09T08:28:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T13:28:55","slug":"interview-etiquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/interview-etiquette\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Etiquette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerjournal.com\/columnists\/manageyourcareer\/20060802-managingyourcareer.html?mod=RSS_Career_Journal&#038;cjrss=frontpage\" target=\"_blank\">Interview Etiquette Begins The Minute You Walk in the Door<\/a> from CareerJournal is a must-read piece for Gen Y workers. I&#8217;ve seen some of these traits first hand in initial interviews or even email communications.<\/p>\n<p>I had a candidate this past week email me his resume and cover letter. Strangely, he wasn&#8217;t even close to fitting the clearly specified requirements of the position. He then followed up with the same email to me for the next 2 days. Except these times he had 5MB of attachments to his email. Finally, on the 3rd time, he sent the 5MB email to me 3 times in the middle of the night and filled my email quota (essentially shutting it down). I was fuming &#8211; talk about bad etiquette!<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I&#8217;m done venting &#8211; back to the article. Many candidates ignore this truth:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your demeanor comes under scrutiny the moment you arrive at a search firm. &#8220;We are building a picture of you piece by piece,&#8221; explains Dora Vell, managing partner of Vell &#038; Associates, high-tech recruiters in Waltham, Mass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this is another move we have seen first hand:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You chat briefly, repeatedly peeking at your BlackBerry. Another dumb move. Twice in the past six months, aspiring vice presidents have pulled out these email devices during interviews&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Talk about interview suicide. Anyone who must check their cell or BlackBerry during and interview should be removed from consideration. One principle we adhere to &#8211; this is the best they will ever be. What I mean is that the interview will be their best behavior. Everything after that is less formal. If they do not display a minimum level of formality in the interview, you do not want to turn them loose inside your office or worse, in front of your clients.<\/p>\n<p>The closing paragraph from the article hits the nail on the head:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He suspects many ill-mannered job seekers suffer from a similar, <strong>excessive sense of self-importance<\/strong>. &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to interview for a job, interview 100%,&#8221; Mr. Gallagher advises. &#8220;Put everything else out of your mind.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview Etiquette Begins The Minute You Walk in the Door from CareerJournal is a must-read piece for Gen Y workers. I&#8217;ve seen some of these traits first hand in initial interviews or even email communications. I had a candidate this past week email me his resume and cover letter. Strangely, he wasn&#8217;t even close to fitting the clearly specified requirements of the position. He then followed up with the same email to me for the next 2 days. Except these times he had 5MB of attachments to his email. Finally, on the 3rd time, he sent the 5MB email to me 3 times in the middle of the night and&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/interview-etiquette\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-3z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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