Don’t Let This Guy Represent You

April 21, 2008 in How to Get a Job
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Do interviewers themselves ever get screened? Compare the following modus operandi at these “we aren’t interviewing, but we will take your resume” booths.

Two well-dressed, intelligent-looking men sit behind a table for a local rural school district. There is exactly one high school in this district.

We’re not doing actual interviews, but we will plan on calling back candidates we like. Today, we’re just getting to know people.

One grouch in a light gray suit stands in front of his table, a display of his rural-but-not-local district standing behind him. With gravel in his voice:

I’m not doing interviews today. I’ll let our new school speak for itself. It’s brand new, and it has all the bells and whistles.

I’m guessing someone drew the short straw. What a sourpuss.