Job Hunt / Interviews Tips: Any validity to these?

[SeerSGB]

If that qualification isn't directly relevant to the job you're applying for, you could pull them. If it is, I would just leave it be. Don't mention your intention to renew them. I would wait for that topic to come up during the interview. College graduation dates are probably the only thing on a resume that can/should be future tense.

If you have real job experience that overlaps those certifications, that might be another reason the certifications are worth removing.

Easily. Most everything I've done the last ten years has been miles beyond the original certificates in terms of software knowledge and skill set training.

I thought about listing 'em but leaving the dates out. But that'd only work if I got out the original (ugh, all those storage boxes and a day at the storage unit...damn, damn, damn) to have on hand if someone wanted to see 'em.

 

[Bears Discover Fire]

Here's one: don't over dress. If you're applying for a job as a cashier at the Wally-World you don't want to show up in a business suit carrying a briefcase.

On a related note, ease off the heavily scented toiletries. I interviewed a guy once who not only showed up dressed in a wedding tux and patent leather shoes, but doused in cologne. I ended the interview prematurely because the overpowering smell wreaked havoc on my sinuses. The smell hung in the air of the rest of the day, and was a miserable experience for all of us. The job would have had him working next to me 8 hours a day - no way was I going to subject myself and the rest of the office to that.

Oh yeah, and lesson learned from the same guy - if you're going to steal someone else's portfolio and pass it off as your own, don't cop to it in the middle of the interview!

 

[SeerSGB]

Here's one: don't over dress. If you're applying for a job as a cashier at the Wally-World you don't want to show up in a business suit carrying a briefcase.

On a related note, ease off the heavily scented toiletries. I interviewed a guy once who not only showed up dressed in a wedding tux and patent leather shoes, but doused in cologne. I ended the interview prematurely because the overpowering smell wreaked havoc on my sinuses. The smell hung in the air of the rest of the day, and was a miserable experience for all of us. The job would have had him working next to me 8 hours a day - no way was I going to subject myself and the rest of the office to that.

Oh yeah, and lesson learned from the same guy - if you're going to steal someone else's portfolio and pass it off as your own, don't cop to it in the middle of the interview!

I try to wear either unscented stuff in the winter, or a very light dash of old spice. One thing I'll had: make the scents match. Three or for different scents, even lightly, on you can really play havoc with the nose.

I hated giving interviews when I was a supervisor at the movie theater. 3 that still stick my head with annoying clarity:

1) A boy sent to us for usher job by his parole officer. He spent the whole interview "motherfucker this" or "motherfucking that". Had no availability for a schedule between court mandated AA, drug treatment, and parole check ins, he had maybe 12 hours a week. Plus he just walked around the office knocking stuff off the cabinets. Then his PO had the balls to ask why we didn't hire him

2) From the TMI department: A woman was popping something in her mouth as I was walking across the lobby; I figured a tic-tac or some such. She stands up, she proceeds to tell me without preample that she's got her period and she's cramping really bad. I offered to reschedule if she needed to, she said to go ahead. Half-way through the interview she just got up and announced she needed to change his personal hygiene items and left. She never did come back.

3) Girlfriend, very pregnant, dragged her loser boyfriend down and forced him to fill out an application. We had a few minutes, we need a weekend usher badly, so I gave him a quickie interview that was mostly his girlfriend butting in and calling him a dumb-fuck and either correcting him or snapping my head off. Naturally he didn't get the job.

 

[bigdaddy]

* Keep breath mints in your pocket. Take one just before walk into the office and let it freshen your breath while you wait. Don't use chewing gum cause it might look rude.

* If in a waiting area, if their are magazines read the company or trade magazines to show interest in the company, not the popular magazines.

* Tailor your resume to the job.

These make the most sense.

I got a job at Toys R Us for the holidays, I don't drive. Someone else rides his bike 10+ miles to the job. They really don't care as long as you get to the interview(s) on time / early.

Don't be reading the swimsuit edition of magazines in the waiting room. Always have mints, no one wants to tell you that you smell horrible. of course you tailor your resume to the job. All these things should be common sense.

Don't over think things, act "normal", don't look or smell crazy and be on time or early. Like someone said if you are working at Walmart even jeans and a polo work. I always do a button up shirt and some dressier pants, no matter the job. However at TRU someone was wearing sweatpants and just got back from class and was really messy look, he got the job because he talked a lot (good for cashier).

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Here's one: don't over dress. If you're applying for a job as a cashier at the Wally-World you don't want to show up in a business suit carrying a briefcase.

On a related note, ease off the heavily scented toiletries. I interviewed a guy once who not only showed up dressed in a wedding tux and patent leather shoes, but doused in cologne. I ended the interview prematurely because the overpowering smell wreaked havoc on my sinuses. The smell hung in the air of the rest of the day, and was a miserable experience for all of us. The job would have had him working next to me 8 hours a day - no way was I going to subject myself and the rest of the office to that.

Oh yeah, and lesson learned from the same guy - if you're going to steal someone else's portfolio and pass it off as your own, don't cop to it in the middle of the interview!

I completely agree. I can't stand it when someone smells like they took a bath in cologne, perfume, or body spray. Just take a fucking shower and you won't stink--it's not necessary to soak yourself in fragrance.