The three step interview process relies on the ability to complete step one: make the interviewer laugh in the first few minutes. This is integral. Step two is to answer a question or throw something in that invites a few lines of dialogue not related to the actual interview, furthering any connection between you and the interviewer. Step three is a combination of steps one and two, wherein at the end of the interview when they ask if you have any additional questions you go back to a question asked earlier in the interview to which you gave an answer that you're unsure of or an answer that may have been factually incorrect- at this point you bring the question up and make a comment about your answer that is slightly self-deprecating but mostly humorous, and based on the interviewer's response you make another comment that invites the interviewer to share his/her experience when answering the same question, thus forming a sort-of connection between you. If you don't get the laugh at the beginning, though, it isn't a good sign.
Obviously I rely on humor to help me through most aspects of life, which possibly isn't good, but it's what I'm good at, so. Play to your strengths, you know?
Anyway, beyond that I am RIDICULOUSLY excited for EC. And Holmes vs. Reid chess is automatically awesome because it's Holmes... and Reid. Yes.
And the marriage fic is... stalled... because I can't figure out how it's going to start and (even though I have 2,000 words of the middle written) I can't really work on it seriously until I figure that out. Which will hopefully be soon.
Good luck with the search for a non-god-awful position! I'm thinking happy thoughts for you!
The three step interview process relies on the ability to complete step one: make the interviewer laugh in the first few minutes. This is integral. Step two is to answer a question or throw something in that invites a few lines of dialogue not related to the actual interview, furthering any connection between you and the interviewer. Step three is a combination of steps one and two, wherein at the end of the interview when they ask if you have any additional questions you go back to a question asked earlier in the interview to which you gave an answer that you're unsure of or an answer that may have been factually incorrect- at this point you bring the question up and make a comment about your answer that is slightly self-deprecating but mostly humorous, and based on the interviewer's response you make another comment that invites the interviewer to share his/her experience when answering the same question, thus forming a sort-of connection between you. If you don't get the laugh at the beginning, though, it isn't a good sign.
Obviously I rely on humor to help me through most aspects of life, which possibly isn't good, but it's what I'm good at, so. Play to your strengths, you know?
Anyway, beyond that I am RIDICULOUSLY excited for EC. And Holmes vs. Reid chess is automatically awesome because it's Holmes... and Reid. Yes.
And the marriage fic is... stalled... because I can't figure out how it's going to start and (even though I have 2,000 words of the middle written) I can't really work on it seriously until I figure that out. Which will hopefully be soon.
Good luck with the search for a non-god-awful position! I'm thinking happy thoughts for you!
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