[Gllug] VACANCY - Linux Specialist @ Visual Effects Training Facility

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On 3 Oct 2007, Dick Turpin said:

> Chris Jones wrote:
>
>> If I may share my main insight into job interviews (or indeed any such
>> "performance") it is to try and capture the nervousness and use it to
>> focus. It's perfectly normal to be nervous, everyone is (and anyone who
>> tells you otherwise, be they a bloke down the pub or a city high flier,
>> is lying).

That may work if you have good stress response. I tried it: it made me
*more* nervous (`terrified' would probably be anyone else's description
of it, but I spend my entire life afraid of *something* to some degree
so I have higher standards).

This is one of the ways in which Asperger's sucks.

>> Of course that's very handwavey and possibly of no practical use, but
>> I've come to positively enjoy interviews as a result of not letting the
>> nerves overwhelm me.
>
> *Nerves*
>
> There is another tack that you can try, they are looking to employ you 
> so you interview them!

Oh, my mother's told me that endlessly (she's spent a *long* time on the
interviewer side of the desk). You really can't do that if you're almost
too nervous to talk.

(Oh, and let's not forget the extreme stammering.)

> Of course don't be dumb enough to ask those questions outright.

Well that sort of rephrasing requires social nous as well. *Zero* chance
of that from me in a high-stress situation.

> Failing that remember 'you didn't have the job before you walked through 
> the door' so if you don't get it what have you lost? Nothing!

More self-esteem? :/

> You don't work for them yet so why let the interviewer intimidate you, 
> knowingly or not? The interviewer has to wipe their bum just the same as 
> you so they're no better than you.

That doesn't follow. George W. Bush has to wipe his bum (I don't think
the President rates people to do that for him), but I like to think I'm
better than *him*, thanks.

;)

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