Unconventional ways to ace any job interview

http://edufire.com/articles/65-unconventional-ways-to-ace-any-job-interview

by jbischke • 17 years ago

5 9 17 years ago

For some reason I can't get "Barney Stinson! Barney Stinson!" out of my head.

I feel like if I tried to pull some of that stuff with a potential employer, I would be dismissed as a pretentious blowhard.

http://barneysvideoresume.com/

arnorhs• 17 years ago

Wow, this is awesome. Never seen it before. Instant bookmark, tweet and posted to facebook...

smokinn• 17 years ago

Ace any interview? You certainly wouldn't be off to a good start with me if you tried to use a powerpoint presentation.

For a programming job at least (and probably most technical positions) it seems that all those suggestions would actually work against you.

tptacek• 17 years ago

Coming to an interview with the usernames and passwords for an AcmeCorp account at "major" social media sites Acme didn't "think" to claim seems like a good way to get escorted out of the building.

softbuilder• 17 years ago

I don't know about getting escorted out but it definitely is presumptuous. More importantly it is fucking weird.

spitfire• 17 years ago

powerpoint presentation == You aren't getting the job.

I'd say more, but personally the interview would be over the second someone mentioned powerpoint.

windsurfer• 17 years ago

It would be certainly interesting to bring a USB drive to an interview at IBM, where they don't allow USB drives due to security concerns (or so I'm told).

Ace the interview indeed.

rs• 17 years ago

I dunno.. I might be a conservative here, but if someone I'm interviewing starts doing all these things, I'm going to feel like he/she is just trying a little to hard and might come out as fake.

There's a line between showing genuine interest in the role, and coming out a little over the top. Doing these "not so common" methods might just cross the line for me.

I dunno, maybe I'm just weird.

mannicken• 17 years ago

I can't understand: is this a joke?

Oh well.

6. Take a couple of hostages and record them begging for this company to land you a job. Originality is a great way to impress an interviewer.

Unconventional ways to ace any job interview

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