My Interests Include....

My experiment was a bust, or a success depending on how you look at it. Unfortunately for me only two people e-mailed regarding my fake internship position. I suppose that this says a lot more than I expected about people’s ability to carefully read job ads. I suppose that this would have worked much more in my favor had I offered some kind of compensation though. I am not that evil. On to more exciting topics I say!

I once again had an interview at Northeastern. I was actually rather shocked that I was offered the chance to actually meet with the person that would ultimately be hiring me. I have finally made it past the gatekeepers in human resources! Hizzah! I think that from now on I am just going to look at being late and getting lost as a good portend when going to an interview, because if I looked at such things as a sign that nothing was going to go well, I would not ever be attending interviews. I am not saying that this interview was the best interview ever, but my hopes are a tad elevated after the interview. This could be a result of desperation though since I am kind of getting sick of a being a dish bitch.

The reason said hopes are on the rise is because Northeastern has a very strange interview style. The interview is not so much an interview but rather more like a lot of being talked at. While this does not bode well for manager’s chances of actually listening to what I am saying, it does minimize my chances of saying potentially insulting things. Yesterdays’s interview involved a lot of nodding to and saying “OK.” It was, in essence, the prefect interview, made even more perfect because I actually received a compliment! That’s right, a compliment! Just when I was beginning to feel like perhaps I was not good enough for Northeastern, I was told “you have a good voice.” Me? A good voice? Why, how could you deduce that from my only saying “OK” for the past fifteen minutes? A compliment is a compliment none the less and it has opened my eyes to something I have been omitting from my resume: completely useless attributes.

Henceforth I am going to add a new section to the novella I send out to prospective employers. It is going to be entitled Hobbies, Interests, and Attributes and will read a little something like this:

*Fine art and photography
*Piercing blue eyes
*Reading
*A good voice
*Sitting
*Ability to stand for long periods
*A heartbeat
*Long walks on the beach
*Cooking
*Ability to breath on my own
*Classical Studies

I should say that this was both inspired by my interview and one of the two responses I received from my internship ad. I see no reason not to include these things in the resume/ cover letter package. I think that I might even start including a photo and a CD that includes my answers to 100 of the most common interview questions. Better yet, perhaps I will include a card board cut out of myself that plays the CD of randomly generated interview question answers. I think I have revolutionized the interview process!