Barbie Interviews For a JobWednesday, November 30, 2005 Someone recently posted this in a job forum: "When a hiring manager has too many candidates and he does not know who is the best, what do you do to stand out from the crowd? What creative things would you do?" The question is really irrelevant for the most part. A good hiring manager does not get to the point where they have so may great candidates that they just don't know who to hire. It is a ridiculous premise. I suppose there may be a few managers that may like the queue stacked so much that it makes their job much harder, but I am not one of them. This obviously misguided poster goes on to say "Obviously, solve a real life problem for him/her. But what do you know and how do you know that?" Obviously? What? Well, nothing like answering your own question. You rarely have a clue as far as what a real problem would be that you could solve. In most interviews, you just scratch the surface. You would have to have some "mind reading" skills well tuned. Now it gets into the realm of ludicrousity (my own word). This job-seeker goes on to suggest things. (I am starting to wonder if I might be reading a post by Barbie or Ken) The poster says: "Would any of you do this?" "1) write him an email with a long list of your accomplishment to "repeatedly" remind him/her of you capabilities." Yeah, bug the heck out of the hiring manager until s/he is so fed up s/he offers you the job. Great strategic thinking there. "2) Call hiring manager and just talk.....anything " Anything? "Hey Hiring manager, I just called to say, I really like you and .. well what would you like to talk about today? We can talk about anything." "3) Talk to his peers you find their name on interview agenda) if you got their numbers. " Ok, now bug the heck out of his/her peers, so they finally come to the hiring manager asking, "Who is the idiot who keeps calling all of us?" Now we are back to mindreading: "4) Imagine a problem he might have and solve it. Write a project report about it. Or send him a copy of your past project report. " Sounds like something I would have been told to do in High School. "5) cut an article from newspaper about the industry or something he cares about and mail it to him." Oh boy! Won't s/he be surprised? "6) Write a list of things/project work you are interested to do or to learn about once you are hired for the position." And you think you are even in the running at this point? "7) write a little essay about your views on the industry trend/practices/anything and send him a copy." Oh my gosh, I can't take anymore. I was so glad it was the last one. This one had me really laughing. Write a teeny tiny essay..... The poster finally asks: "Do these things sound crazy? If not, what would you add to this list?" Not only do they sound crazy, they are absurd. Period. These suggestions are completely ludicrous. If anything else is added to the list, this very misguided job-seeker will remain unemployed for a very long time. I really feel sorry for this person. I hope they were not original ideas, but those of a lousy career counselor. Wow.... posted at 11/30/2005 08:00:00 PM | 11 comments links to this post |
A "Thank You" NoteTuesday, November 29, 2005 Recently someone posted this to a job forum: "I just had a really good one-hour interview with the hiring manager, and I'd like to send a thank-you note. Problem is, I don't know her mailing address. I know the street address, floor, and her full name and title, so do you think that's enough for the internal mailing system to get a letter to her? I also have her email address and could email the thank you, but I thought paper would be more formal." My response was irreverent at best. I responded: "I know this goes against what many "experts" say, but after interviewing hundreds of people, the "thank you" note is cliche. If I want to hire someone after a great interview, I hire him/her. Period. A thank you note does not make any difference. OK, going out on a limb here. Any hiring manager that makes a decision based on a thank you note is not convinced that s/he has the right person for the job. If your interview was really good, then it was really good for the hiring manager as well." That is my real experience. Don't do things that really do not make sense. Be yourself! posted at 11/29/2005 12:16:00 AM | 7 comments links to this post |
DowntownSunday, November 27, 2005 A wonderful, peaceful night. Jonathan and I ran around the downtown historic district and shot stills and videos. I wish I could share the videos as well.This picture seemed to capture the evening. It is awesome to have a teenage son who loves to act as much as a boy as I do. I hope we never grow up. Dad and son. I really enjoy these moments. I know they are not here for long, but I take in every second. Life may march on, but I am not going to let the memory of the two of us acting like idiots fade any time soon. I think the people at the Irish pub may have thought we were both a bit off the wall. That is where we shot most of the videos. At least we had a good time. Everyone should act like a kid at least once a week. posted at 11/27/2005 08:00:00 PM | 6 comments links to this post |
How Much Could You Make? One of the most frequent questions I hear is "How do I find out how much I should be making?" Many people feel that they are underpaid or say they KNOW they are underpaid. However, they have no empirical data to support their claim. Many times it is based on what they have heard in the office.First of all, discussing salaries in the office is really not professional. Your salary should be well guarded and there are many reasons why. I will write about that some other time so I do not end up on the other end of a tangent. Secondly, the boasting about that goes on within the cubicles is highly unreliable. So how do you find out what you are worth in the marketplace? Salaries are somewhat subjective. You can be overpaid by one company and underpaid by another in the same region, doing the same thing. The issue is not with your performance, but with what the company uses as guides for salaries. Most reputable companies will subscribe to services that give them concrete salary ranges to use. These subscription services are good and represent well researched data. They also report salaries in ranges. For example: Low: $55,000 Median: 72,000 High: 90,000 Most companies do not want to bring someone in any high than what is called midpoint (or median in this example). If a company always brought someone in higher than midpoint they limit growth almost immediately. Sometimes experience may make a company lean more towards 30% of midpoint. You cannot be dogmatic about using these ranges. If your skill set is strong in an area that is "hot", you are going to tip on the upper end of the scale, or get bumped up a grade to get hired. Demand for certain skills always inflates salaries. But be careful! If you are in a hot market sector and have a skill that companies are paying good bucks for, your salary will not likely remain inflated over a longer period of time. In the 90s, software developers were seeing on average 11 - 15% increases every year. Developers that interviewed well and had experience were courted like great college football players. Someone who started at $20,000 in 1990, could have been making $120,000 just ten years later. That certainly did not last. In 2001, there were few jobs and many overpaid developers. Salaries started to drop by 10, 20 and even 30 percent. In 2005, there is a bit of a rebound, but software developers are not seeing the kind of salaries and increases they saw ten years ago. Many of the jobs continue to be shipped overseas. So where do you find out how much you are worth according to solid research? salary.com - Good source for ranges by region and skill set. posted at 11/27/2005 08:00:00 AM | 1 comments links to this post |
BLACK FRIDAYFriday, November 25, 2005 UPDATE: I survived the crazed people, obnoxious kids, all the mayhem and landed upon some great deals. Best Buy gets the award for the worst store to try to get the "steal deal." I waited in line for an hour before they told us that all of the laptops had been sold out. What a joke. I Left - headed out to find a real steal. My best deals of the day: a new Samsung $200 phone for my wife, free! Then another great kill. It took talking to several salespeople until I heard the correct answer (which is "Yes") and I came out of Sprint with a free upgrade from a Treo 600 to a Treo 650. The 650 is a $500 phone. The first guy would go down to $299 and that was the "best deal" anywhere he said. It wasn't a "steal" at that price, though. As it turns out, there was actually a better deal and it was right in the same store. FREE! Don't take "no" for an answer if you don't feel it is right. ;) Have a great day! I am staying clear of the stores today and having fun with my kids.Original Post: I thought people were going to strangle the guy. It is Black Friday and I am a guy. I am one of the few guys I know that will openly admit liking Black Friday. Why do I like it? It is the thrill of the kill. It has become a war between stores to sell PCs, cameras, all sorts of electronics for ridiculous prices. There is a catch. You must show up to the party at 5:00 a.m. 10 Things to make your BF experience the BEST! 1. Rent a helicopter for the day. A car will get you nowhere fast. 2. Be prepared to look through bins of thousands of DVDs to find one that you actually would watch. 3. Don't really expect to get that laptop for $349.00. They only have enough for the first 10 people in the first line around the store. 4. 10% coupons are a waste. After sales tax, your bargain just became a waste of time. 5. Bring your digital camera and take pictures of the people who physically fight over the last DVD recorder for $79. 6. Tell yourself that a 45 minute checkout line is really pretty good. Most are over an hour. 7. Get all the flyers out the night before and plan your attack. Rank each store by taking the total number of offers per store, divided by the number of expected crazed people to show at 5:00 a.m., weighted by the number of miles from your house. 8. If the sale item has more than 1 mail in rebate, don't buy. You will end up paying full price because you will never get all of the rebates filled out on time, properly - if at all. 9. There is a reason it is called Black Friday. Do your research and understand the historical significance. 10. Don't bring any of your kids. That will slow your S.P.H. (store per hour) way down. Kids don't understand what is so great about standing in line for an hour just to get into a store. They also do not have an appreciation for finding out what you wanted is already out of stock (no rainchecks). Standing in line at the check out for an hour for the $29 bargain you actually found? And who is smarter? Hope to see you out there at 5:00 a.m.! I am ready to get my 42 inch HD TV for $249. IF not, I will be on eBay trying to make the kill. posted at 11/25/2005 05:00:00 AM | 9 comments links to this post |
I Will Survive (Thanksgiving)Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Electronic greeting cards are getting better. Check this one out!I had a good laugh. Of course it dates me. Eric posted at 11/22/2005 07:30:00 PM | 6 comments links to this post |
A Pay Raise That Is Too Good To Be True Wouldn't you like to get a 20% raise? The average corporate raise is between 3 to 5 percent a year and some companies experiencing a wage freeze get nothing. I know some people who are asked to take a cut in pay with the hope that they will get repaid when things look better.But 20%, and out of the blue? Not exactly. Beware of the raise that seems too good to be true. It probably is. A reader told me a story where she accepted a position with another company. The company she worked for was stagnant and really not challenging her anymore. So she accepted the new job and told her current boss that she was leaving. Wouldn't you know that her current boss was meaning to give her a 20% raise? Just hadn't gotten around to it yet. Yeah right! This is akin to corporate bribery. It also is a lure into a trap that inevitably ends up being the wrong move. I have a rule. If I am going to move on, then there are reasons why I am doing that. If you are just jumping ship because you think the grass is greener on the other side, think again. Every company you will work for will have its challenges; things you do not like about it. Even if you have your own company like I did, there are days you wish you could fire yourself - get a new boss. I told my reader that she had good reasons why she accepted the offer for the new job and that she had made a commitment. She knew she had committed and really did want to work for the new company. It just bugged her. It was a lot of money and of course more than she was going to make at the new job. She really didn't need to hear what I had to say, but just had to talk about it. Get it out. It was frustrating. I have avoided the hassle of being potentially bribed by stating that I do not accept counter-offers when I announce that I am leaving. Not that I have had to do this many times, but when I did, I made my decision and did not let the current company try to change my mind for the wrong reasons. Several weeks after she left the company and started her new job, the CEO of the old company left. Things looked rather precarious. I have seen companies that I thought would crash and burn live on for years; some are still alive today. Others died a sudden death. My reader made the right decision and I know she will be better off in the long run. posted at 11/22/2005 07:17:00 AM | 6 comments links to this post |
T.V. Is My Drug Of ChoiceSunday, November 20, 2005And the Winner Is... T.V. Is My Drug Of Choice, hosted by "Sheila."  Sheila came up with the best idiotic boss story. There were several that were so close, but in the end, my wife (The Write Way Home) and I laughed out loud at breakfast when we read Sheila's boss story. Not only is it a classic boss story, it is perfectly written. Congrats, Sheila! Check out her site:  It will be featured for a full week on the Blogging Boss! This is not a part of the "Rent A Blog" movement over on BlogExplosion. She won the first ever Blogging Boss contest! Here is her idiotic boss story: Sheila writes, We got an email from another manager reminding every department to send a representative to the an employee opinion group meeting. No one in my department had ever attended these meetings before, so I thought I'd ask why we didn't send a representative. The email I got back from my boss explained that "those meetings are for employees only." Hmmm... I guess the paychecks they've been sending me for the last 5 years have been a fluke. Great one, Sheila! Eric Boehme, The Blogging Boss posted at 11/20/2005 08:02:00 PM | 3 comments links to this post |
Who Is In Charge Here?Friday, November 18, 2005 Having four children, (five including myself), it is often debated who is really the boss at our house. The kids have ruled Jill and me out, so that leave four possibilities.If you talk to my youngest, he thinks that my oldest is boss. He has told me that we have to listen to Jonathan or else he will get mad and may... My oldest says the second oldest is boss, she bosses him around and is a snit. A snit. Then the two girls go back and forth and excuse each other of being "bossy." They also refer to each other as snits. So who is boss? The youngest of course. He puts us all in a spell, a kind of trance and we all wonder how he does it. He says, lets go get ice cream at Ben And Jerry's. My wife averts her eyes from him as to not fall under this spell. It is too late for me. I am chanting, "Yes, we have to go to Ben and Jerry's, yes we have to go....." The charm of the youngest. He charms us all. He is really looking at me in this picture. :) posted at 11/18/2005 08:00:00 PM | 4 comments links to this post |
Wanted: Corporate SlaveWednesday, November 16, 2005 Please read my last post and get in on the chance to be featured on my blog for a week. I have received some good responses and I will share the winning one this weekend. I will run the contest until Friday at midnight CST. A friend of mine from the Northeast sent me an email yesterday called "Fodder For My Blog." Well it is great fodder, thanks K. Her husband is looking for a management job and so he has the fortune of reading the plethora of stupid job postings out there. Most technology job postings list about 50 or so skills they are looking for, any only a handful could ever be successfully mastered by someone really good. She writes "Here's a job hubby turned up in his Monster.com search today - I thought you'd get a kick out of it." [a monster link I will leave out, even though I would love to post it] K says -I loved the very first line: Under direction responsible for hiring, training, coaching, developing and motivating IS professionals within department. K has a great wit and quips "Why don't they just say... "We'll hire you to do this but we don't really trust that you can handle it so we'll breathe down your neck as you work..." K wrote more: "Then after that it says: "Directly supervises 1-15 employees." (Umm, big difference there, how about "We'll severely under staff you most of the time to cut corners in our budget but we still expect you and your "team" (of one) to meet all the quotas we set when there were 14 of you.) K gets it. She is reading between each idiotic line. Then K finishes with "Which is, I guess where my most favourite line comes in: "Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals." Thanks K for that nugget. The last line is the best: Commits life to company at all costs. Will work as many hours as needed for one set fee (called a salary) Come work at our sweat shop Be on our team of corporate slaves If the hiring manager actually wrote that job description, can you imagine what s/he is like to work for (not with). It was clearly stated that you would be micromanaged. My favorite line in the job description is "rewards and disciplines employees." They don't belong in the same sentence. And disciplining? What are they children. Yep, probably are. Here is my revised edition: POSITION Under the direct micromanagement of the hiring manager you will be responsible for hiring, training, coaching, developing and desperately motivating what we call professionals within our miserable department. Directly supervises 1-15 employees, or less depending on the current corporate climate. JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies, not all of which are ethical and applicable laws. Responsible for interviewing, at times hiring and training employees in several hours or less; planning, assigning, and demanding work (like I do); appraising performance; rewarding (a pat on the back) and disciplining (verbally abusing) employees; addressing all the dang complaints about working at our company and resolving all my problems. Completes work within an unrealistic timeframe; strives to help me meet my objectives tied into my bonus. Commits to long hours of work to reach my personal goals. Thanks K for the early morning inspiration. posted at 11/16/2005 08:00:00 AM | 7 comments links to this post |
Win Free Space on My Blog For A WeekMonday, November 14, 2005 All bosses say things they wish they hadn't. However, some bosses have a chronic condition and continue to offend, annoy, belittle, badger, pontificate, pester, irritate, humiliate, bully, pester, dominate, elucidate, demand, insist, curse, confuse, etc. I want to hear the most idiotic thing a boss has ever said to you. Don't mention names or companies (they will be deleted) Send me an email by clicking on "Ask Me a Question" or posting a comment. I will pick the best one and feature your blog on my blog for a week, FREE! For those of you Blog Explosion bloggers, this is like renting a blog, except it is for free! posted at 11/14/2005 09:00:00 PM | 14 comments links to this post |
Do You Know Who This Is?Sunday, November 13, 2005 A boss I know quite well had his sense of humor put to the test. Someone who reports to him found a picture of his boss on a blog. It was the boss's wife's blog. Does that make sense? The boss's wife has a blog that is actively read by some of folks at the boss's office. Interesting, huh? Gets better. The boss's wife posts a picture of her husband (the boss). It was a picture of the boss on a beach sporting the fashion of the eighties (about 18 years ago). <== Yep that is the picture to the left. The Blogging Boss decided to highlight some of the more notable styles (or lack of thereof) and features of the boss in this picture. Take a look at it. If someone posted a picture like this of me I would dig deep into my soul and take it in stride. Why would his wife post such a picture anyway? It gets funnier. Someone lifts the picture off of the wife's blog and posts it in an email to a group of people in the boss's office. The boss had no idea that his picture was part of a contest. "Do You Know Who This Is?" Everyone who received the email with the picture was trying to figure out who this dork was. The boss doesn't find out about this contest until later in the afternoon when he is in a meeting. Someone in the meeting mentions that someone had guessed who was in the picture. Now the details of the contest and the dweebish picture were being revealed. The employee looks up at the boss somewhat deviously and says "Well, we found a picture on your wife's blog, and well... We had a contest." The boss instanty knows what picture and is wondering who saw the idiotic picture his wife was so kind to post. I'm not sure how this boss reacted, but if it were me, the Blogging Boss, I would think it was great. What better way to be humbled as a boss? And bosses need to be humbled from time to time. The Blogging Boss had a great laugh about it. Hope everyone who saw it did. posted at 11/13/2005 03:00:00 PM | 8 comments links to this post |
The Products of Brainless Parents at Play, Drive Slow!Friday, November 11, 2005 More ranting on kids in streets.I know, I know it is time for a good post on a bad boss, but I got such great support on my Goodwill post that I am going to go on a bit more about it. If you have not read it, pop down one post and get the back story to this post. Basically I live in a neighborhood filled with parents with smalls kids who have taught them how to play in the street. These streets actually are the ones we use to drive in and out of our subdivision. Not side streets - not a CUL DE SAC! One of my favorite quotes comes from Ananke (Confused and Amuzed). What a gem: "The parenting skills (or lack thereof) of some people never cease to amaze me. It's almost as if they decided to have children just to see if it was possible. They didn't have a clue what to do with them afterwards. And of course, the rules only apply to everyone except their little darlings! Grrr!" That describes some of the parents in my neighborhood. In His Steps (another blogger) had a great idea: Why not go out in the middle of the night and put up your own sign: "Parentless kids at play, please drive slow" or "The products of brainless parents at play, drive slow" Melanie (Plaid Toaster) blogged about a freak accident with her son. I actually read her blog a while back and my heart wrenched for her and her family. Here is what she had to say: "Be persistant in this. You may save a child's life. My son was run over by a truck, driven by my father. A bizarre accident that happened in our yard, not the street. Having to go through what we did, It enrages me when I see this negligence in the neighborhood. My son will show the kids or the parents his scars, yet they remain clueless. God forbid they have to go through what our family did." Melanie, I am going to be persistent, almost ruthless. posted at 11/11/2005 07:18:00 AM | 12 comments links to this post |
I Gave My Brain To GoodwillTuesday, November 08, 2005  I live in a neighborhood where many of the parents of young children have given their brains to Goodwill. I have never encountered such a band of completely brainless people. I do not mean to be nasty, but I have no other way to describe it. Most of them have kids who are between the ages of 2 and 6. Most of them have actually taught their kids that playing in the middle of the street is completely normal. Last night I was driving up the hill towards my house looking out for one of these ""street" kids. Two boys were playing, one at the left side of the street, the other on the right. I slowed down to 10 mph - watching them carefully. Are they going to get off the street? I get closer to them and they get closer to me. I slow down more. Then the kid on the left decides to take his battle out with the kid on the right out into the middle of the street directly in front of my van! He is running pel mel towards the front of my van totally obliviously. I am sure it never occurred to him that I could be a motorized vehicle driving on their playground. SLAM! I slam on my brakes. If I did not come to a complete stop, I would have killed the kid. I was clearly out of line. What was I doing driving my van on the street? Maybe I should try the sidewalk. Where is my brain? Better yet where are the brains of their parents? I was taught not to play in the street. When I was 4, the street was for cars and trucks. Today, the street is for “Barbie motorized cars”, drawing with chalk, doing projects, and just about anything you can imagine. Next time I drive my car in my neighborhood, I will just park it at the entrance and walk home. I will be sure to walk in the middle of the street where everyone else does. Jill has called the police. Jill has emailed the police. I talked to the chief of police on the phone. Our neighborhood association manager has visited the police personally. The police talked to the parents and told them to get their stupid green men that say “slow” out of the street and to tell their kids not to play in the street. Nothing like talking to a brick wall. So how does the Blogging Boss deal with conflict in this situation? Well, honestly not well. Starting tomorrow I am going to get our of my car when I see a kid in the street. I will park my car in the middle of the street and ask the kid to take me to their mother or father. I am going to tell the parent that I have their house number and I am going to call the police chief to report that their kid was in the street. Then I will walk away and say nothing else. I will call the police and repeat the exercise a hundred times if necessary until these kids are out of the streets. In the corporate world, the Blogging Boss does not consider conflict to be a negative thing. Out on the street it is completely a different story. Someone needs to deal with this conflict constructively or some parent in our neighborhood is going to have to live with killing a kid on our street because some parents gave their brains to Goodwill. The signs on my street should be changed from “Watch For Children” to “Where Are The Parents?” I am fed up. Eric Boehme The Blogging Boss posted at 11/08/2005 12:00:00 AM | 14 comments links to this post |
Take A VacationSunday, November 06, 2005 How many times have I heard "Man, I've got to use some vacation days or I am going to lose them." If you have been with your company for a number of years, you might begin to lose track of how many days you accumulate. Before you know it the company is not adding them up anymore. You are losing them forever!Vacation is earned. It is a benefit. A lot of people do not realize that they actually EARN vacation days. Once you earn them, they can' be taken away as much as an employer can' take pay away from you after you work the hours. Well, at least not legally. Some companies have some questionable clauses in the employee handbook as far as how long you have to work for the company before you actually "earn" the vacation days. Legally all of that nonsense doesn' hold water. I will share a story about this after it gets out of court. It is a winner! The material point here is that you have EARNED your vacation days and if you are a "wrk-aholic" then you probably find reasons why you do not have time to take some time off. Think about that sentence: You don't have time to take time off. What's wrong with this picture? A lot - and if it fits you, take some time OFF. If your boss whines about it; tough. Don't be rude, just request the time off. You need vacation. Some of you are reading this and saying, "What in the world is the Blogging Boss talking about? People actually do not take vacation time? I take every bloody minute I can take." Sorry to say, I have told employees to take vacations. They could not bring themselves to do it. I was one of those employees about ten years ago. I accrued the maximum number of days you could before you began losing them. This happened to me often and I lost many vacation days. I can never get them back. I regret losing them, but it won't happen again. I am planning my next vacation right now. Life is too short. Be good to yourself. posted at 11/06/2005 08:00:00 PM | 3 comments links to this post |
The Hallmark BossSaturday, November 05, 2005If you have not seen this yet, click on the image and get ready to laugh. I put a link up on another post, but I thought I would get the image up.  Ther Blogging Boss posted at 11/05/2005 06:43:00 PM | 5 comments links to this post |
Give a Word A New Meaning Here is a great website: http://www.hetemeel.com/dictionaryform.php I found it on someone's blog and loved it. Go have fun with it sometime. I did. Gonna have fun with my family today. See you soon. posted at 11/05/2005 12:42:00 PM | 0 comments links to this post |
Time To Be MyselfThursday, November 03, 2005 Ever sit in a meeting and get the desire to do something totally off the wall? Well, I do and often.In meetings, everyone is sporting their meeting persona. You know what I mean? The "I am really important" persona. "Do you know who I am and how I could crush your career?" persona.. They come in all flavors, most of which I find repulsive. Here is a novel idea. What if we decided to be ourselves and scare everyone in the 100 degree room with no windows? I mean really let it all hang out. I have been in the corporate rat race too long to wear a mask in a meeting. I am who I am - but in a professional way. At home, I am not professional. I am weird, sometimes really weird. I have kids, so you have to be weird as a Dad, right? They love my weirdness and I embrace it. My youngest son has inspired me to do something really weird in a meeting. I am going to stick my tongue out at the first person who tries to play with my mind. The Blogging Boss would be the source of endless conversation. What is wrong with Eric? Does he have family problems? Has he gone mental? (yeah kinda there already) I'm gonna stick my tongue out, just like Spencer in the picture. At least in my mind... posted at 11/03/2005 10:42:00 AM | 11 comments links to this post |
The Rest Of The StoryWednesday, November 02, 2005Sad story. This one makes me mad. No one should be subjected to this tyranny. I blogged a week ago or so about this guy who went for an interview. He was met with a hostile interviewer who should never be allowed to interview another living soul. He described the interview as hostile. I had some comments that both confirmed that this type of interviewing still is being used; however, most agreed that it is a rather rude and stupid approach to selling someone on your company. I got more of this guy's interview story just the other day and I promised I would share. It is ugly. He was not allowed to answer questions, rather they were answered for him. He was asked what his wife did. He was asked if he would be willing to relocate. He was told that "No he wouldn't be, because his wife was tied to this city based on her job." He was not allowed say that he was actually willing to relocate. He asked if he had any sales experience. He was told he didn't. This was his 4th interview with the company and he felt badly because he felt that the interview with this barbaric sales guy killed his chance to work for the company. Th Blogging Boss feels badly for this guy, but wonders... Why would he want to work there after that experience? Scratching my head on that one....  Be good to yourself and know that the weekend is but hours away. 
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A Dad Who Happens To Be a BossTuesday, November 01, 2005 I have two primary blogs and a few that I just let go. My passion is and always will be for my kids. I have four awesome kids and a wonderful wife who is an author (check out her blog The Write Way Home). I am really, really blessed. Seriously.I started a blog for Dads called the "Blogging Dad" and all of my readers are women for the most part. What is with that? Jill tells me I am more transparent than most guys and so Moms tend to be drawn to that. Truth is, I am not a guy with a bunch of hang-ups. I wear pink shirts. I love to watch my girls dance (ballet). I fish with my boys. I teach my boys not to be sissies, but not to be macho either. It was a stretch when my oldest son was in ballet for two years. It did not damage him; he is as red blooded as any "13 going on 20 year old" boy is. Okay, so I had a few hang-ups. Let guys be guys and girls be girls, I have two of each and it is awesome. I have decided to shut down Blogging Dad. The Blogging Boss can address both areas. Actually there is really no way to separate the Blogging Boss and the Blogging Dad; we are one. I received great feedback from my post about my trip to the farm with the boys. I listen when people speak. A good boss does more listening than speaking, right? (Your boss probably does not) Well, so does a good Dad. About six months ago I realized I was not applying all of what I learned as a boss to my fathering of my children. Now I will have a blog that will hold me accountable. And my readers can hold me accountable. I have a passion to be the best Dad and Boss I can be. Remember the glass IS really half FULL, not empty. 
posted at 11/01/2005 10:59:00 PM | 9 comments links to this post |
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