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Just bombed in a interview
Topic Started: Wednesday 13-10-2010, 18:35 (166 Views)
Sinister Zombie
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I demand sympathy in the cold, cruel and cutting way only ProM can deliver.
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Mr Whiskey Dick
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suck less and stop slouching.
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Fermicelli
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Better luck next time, if there is going to be a next time. :saturn:

Did they give you a reason as to why they didn't want you?
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Next time bring an actual bomb.
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I've had awful interviews that lead to more interviews, and awesome interviews that I didn't get called back on. It happens, you'll bounce back.
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It was an interview for what?
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Oh man this one time I was applying to be a bank teller with my cash-handling experience, and the guy asked a question and I just froze up, one of those "What do you think you could bring to the company?" things and all I could get out was "uh... I uh... am great with customer service" and they said "oh we'll call you if you get it"


That's okay though because they got robbed 6 months later :)
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It was for game, and instead of a formal interview that I was prepared for, they got us all to do a question. Mine was to advise a customer on how to spend £200 on a xbox 360, to which we had to go around the store etc. Except I misunderstood the question and stated what xbox 360 package he should buy and what was left to go on accessories. It meant when we had to present our answers in front of everyone, I had to wing it and list stuff off the top of my head. I did okay, but it was clear I wasn't prepared like everyone else.

It was like that horrible moment where you have to do a presentation in front of a class where you talk out your ass for five minutes and just end up looking like one.

At least I was better than one other guy. He spent 10 minutes writing a script of an answer, which he read in monotone, kept on freezing up, was visibly shaking and the answer was poor to say the least.

Also one guy had the question of what would you advise someone who wanted a PS3 on a budget get. His first response was a Xbox 360, which is ingenious.
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Sinister Zombie
Wednesday 13-10-2010, 20:25
It was for game, and instead of a formal interview that I was prepared for, they got us all to do a question. Mine was to advise a customer on how to spend £200 on a xbox 360, to which we had to go around the store etc. Except I misunderstood the question and stated what xbox 360 package he should buy and what was left to go on accessories. It meant when we had to present our answers in front of everyone, I had to wing it and list stuff off the top of my head. I did okay, but it was clear I wasn't prepared like everyone else.

It was like that horrible moment where you have to do a presentation in front of a class where you talk out your ass for five minutes and just end up looking like one.

At least I was better than one other guy. He spent 10 minutes writing a script of an answer, which he read in monotone, kept on freezing up, was visibly shaking and the answer was poor to say the least.

Also one guy had the question of what would you advise someone who wanted a PS3 on a budget get. His first response was a Xbox 360, which is ingenious.
That last guy sounds like a typical game store employee.

I know the feeling you had. Long time ago, in high school, I had to present a science project that was the summary of months of work. This was before the days of USB flash devices, and my power point was too big for a floppy, so I put it on a ZIP disk. Turns out my teacher didn't a zip drive, so I had to give one of my first oral presentations ever without the powerpoint I prepped for.
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I once did a book review in school. That same morning I wake up to find my cat had peed all over my papers, so I was gonna have to wing it. Of course that's also the day that our asshole principle visits our class because of some issue.
So not only did I do a shitty review, I also had the principle sitting in there sighing and shaking his head, and telling me in front of the class that it was plain shitty and far below the average level of my age.

After that day of course we field a complaint against him(this wasnt the first time he had done his kind of bullshit) so he was apparently pretty close to being fired, and he ended up having to come to our class and gave a long ass suck-up apology. After that he never looked anyone from my class in the eyes again. :D
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