Repaired job interview thread

“"I have a Job interview on Monday !!!!

any suggestions as to what I can do to get this job? keep it clean treebeard is listening
(its for Citibank)"
mapleleaf
02:31:44 PM
02/07/03

"what kind of position?"
bbinkley
02:33:00 PM
02/07/03

"purchasing"
mapleleaf
02:33:22 PM
02/07/03

"i have a few ideas....be curtious, attentive and perky"
poppinfresh
02:33:39 PM
02/07/03

"Hmmm... interviewing for a position in the largest corporation on earth....


Say yes a lot.


Smile.

Say absolutely nothing of substance.

Answer every question with a question.


Use words like "Nimby" and "roots"

You should be a shoe in for the PR department.

You hear me, Artex?!

:)"
Phaedrus
02:34:28 PM
02/07/03

"Tell them how smart you think it is to continue to offer their cardholders offers for new cards. There's nothing like trying to expand into the market segment you already have, to be successful.


Seriously, though, dress professionally, be honest and forthright, and sell yourself. Ask questions about them, as well as answering them about yourself. Act as though you will be working for them, confidence in yourself is a big plus when interviewing.

Try and keep the potty mouth in check, and don't mention that you go backpacking with people you met on the internet, lol...."
bitpusher
02:36:24 PM
02/07/03

"Look the interviewer in the eye when you talk, smile pleasantly, sit up straight and don't slouch, and when you finish up thank them for taking the time to interview you.

Ask questions about the job - questions that might allow you to respond in a way that will show off your strengths.

And when you get home, send a short, handwritten note thanking them for the opportunity to interview and you hope to hear from them soon (assuming you want the job after the interview).

And for heaven's sake, don't trash talk!"
Geobeet
02:36:49 PM
02/07/03

"poopypants went and screwed up the thread.


mapleleaf-email dhutch- she is a big wig position and purchases alot of the stuff for a very big company. she might be able to give you a few pointers.

Be CONFIDENT
Larger than life"
bbinkley
02:37:18 PM
02/07/03

"Ask intelligent questions about the job and what the expectations are."
chili36
02:37:51 PM
02/07/03

"Way to go Poppinfresh, ya dun screwed up Maple's thread with a whole row of ....'s!"
Geobeet
02:38:15 PM
02/07/03

"i'm sorry!"
poppinfresh
02:38:27 PM
02/07/03

"I usually recommend holding back on bodily functions that involve noises or smells during the interview....


j/k mape, congrats and good luck!"
Martyb
02:41:15 PM
02/07/03

"Dangit, I hate when threads get messed up like this. Good luck, ML!!!!"
Artex
02:42:40 PM”

“Great job Marty!”

“And yes, good luck too. Can the ent set up a spell for ya?”

“thank you very much, the other one was giving me a headache.

i did ask the guy if there was a website that i might be able to look at over the weekend, this way I can get a feeling about your company (or somthing like that)
he said that all will be covered on Monday.”

“For what it's worth, my bank is Citibank, and I like them a lot! :-)”

“Forgot to mention I worked for Citibank (well, technically, Citicorp) once. It was a summer job between freshman & soph years in college. I was a bill collector for their credit card division. Fun job.

Hey maple, didn't you say that you'd be reporting to the Injured Reserve thread on 2/7? Hope you are doing OK....”

“does this mean I should not wear my new Bunny Rabbit outfit?

or my

TT shirt under my suit?”

“yes marty, I can not hike for a while :(”

“go for it”

“Keep mispronouncing it as "Shittibank".”

“Maple --

Ask questions. Come prepared with a portfolio, or other means of have a neat list of questions, and ask them.


Sit down and really put some thought into:

What skills you have
What skills transfer from your current job.

Your strengths and (just in case they ask) make up a weakness . ..but not a bad one.


Go on line and find Citigroup's website on your own.

Do your homework this weekend in terms of questions, things you would like to find out, things you need answered etc.

Approach the interview as a work project . . .

and follow up on it as a work project.


I would go so far as to suggest, if the interview, job and situation call for it, that your thank yo letter should be more formal than a written note.

If appropriate, it should be a re-cap of the strengths that you have that would make you a good fit for the job.


Avoid making the interview about what the company can do for you . . .it should be about what you can do for the company.


If you don't know enough now to ak intelligent relevant questions . . .then think up some generic ones . . and write them down.

What is the reporting structure, how many people in the group, is a a new group, and old group, what are the tasks, does eveyone do everything or is it compartmentalized . . .etc


Be prepared to frame questions during the interview using information you learn in it.



I am a firm believer that the interview process is a two way street. Just as they are trying to learn about YOU . .. YOU should be doing all you can to learn about THEM!”

“Not much you can do. They're going to know whether or not you're a contender in the first 5 minutes of the interview. At least, it's been that way when I've interviewed potential candidates.”

“Sorry to hear it, maple.....


One final note re: the interview: if the interviewer is a woman, don't ask her when the baby is due. A woman did that to my wife on a day when a dress she was wearing may have seemed to poof out a bit (she's actually kind of thin around her waist). The woman was not asked back for a 2nd interview....”

“I've found that it's inappropriate to ask a woman when her baby is due unless the child is actually crowning...”

“Mutt --
I agree with your "first 5 minutes" thing . . .but NOT with your "there's nt much you can do" thing.



The thing you CAN do, and that ONLY you have control of is preparing for the interview. If you come in, and present well from the get go it certainly helps.

Coming in dressed appropriately for the job, with a pen, with a portfolio or notebook, with prepared questions, ON TIME, etc etc etc all builds an IMMEDIATE message.

Again . ..YOU have absolute control over that message.”

“Don't wear a "predatory lending sucks" hat.”

“Coming in dressed appropriately for the job, with a pen, with a portfolio or notebook, with prepared questions, ON TIME, etc etc etc all builds an IMMEDIATE message.

Right, and that's the minimum. Pretty much anyone who walks in without these minimum preperations is not going to be the one I hire. It'll be a combination of your experience, your career direction, and your personality that'll get you the job.”

“Research where you are going, find out exactly what you are applying for and learn how you can help them. If you don't know what you have to offer to them, you better find out real fast or find another job. Studdy the the company, history and other stuff. Learn the company.



Dress aproperatly. Find out what people in the department you will be working in wear every day, then wear that to you interview. It is fare better when the company is reviewing your application and your interview and they can't remeber what you where wearing, because you fit in so well, than to over dress or underdress and stick out like a KKK guy at a blackpanther rally.



Confidance is not aregance. I don't think you have a problem with arrogance, but you may with confidance. The easy way to feel confidant is to do you research. If you know the company, and your attier is fitting with the setting, along with you truelly believe that you belong with the company then you will be confidant. --- Similer to me taking a history finnal that I studdied for, compared to the one I played vidio games the night before. When I studdy I am a cocky basterd, but I usaly get everything right.



Visulize.. Visulise the contract with your name on it. See the final hand shake after they tell you that you are hired. Visulise it all, visulise every question and your responses to them. It has been proven that athlets and salesment that visulize success usaly make the sale or the shot. Just like astronots. THey never really know what the crust of a new plannet will look like till they get there, but the try to imagin it as best as possable. When the day comes, it is just like the astronots practiced. (this metefore negates columbia and the are dead because of low funding, not because they did not visulize)



Desire the possition, become obsesive, imagin the days of work ahead of you.



Faith, belive you will get what you want. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve" -Napoleon Hill, the master of education of success.



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Maple, you just got some of the greatest advise I can give you. Yet it did not come from my mind, only my hand that typed it. Those thoughts and passages of advise are paraphrasing of many motivational and self help books, that I have read. If you truely want to be successfully I highly recomend reading "think and grow rich" by Napoleon Hill. If you think I am a 17 year old fool, I challenge you to type Napoleon Hill Biography, into a search engin and read what you find.



Now my own thoughts on life that are inspired by authers like Hill, Waitly, Tracy, Kiyosaki and many other authors (the rest are all from Harvard so you know they are smart).



You only get what you put into life. Sir Issac Nuton was a smart man. He discovered a formula for physics, but it was truly the formula for life. His studdies of mechanical Advantage and engery show to us that can only get what you put into the tool. People like Waitly, Tracy, and Hill show us that this is allso true in life. If you take the time to research your prospective work site, and your time and effort will pay off. If you expect something for nothing you will never succeed. I stongy recomend reseach.







Maple, I do not wish you good luck like other people on this board will, for I believe that if you take my advise, luck will have nothing to do with acceptance to your new carear. If you get the job, it is because you where diserving, persistant, determaind, and had faith, not because of luck. Luck is the foundation the losers build their house on, winners build their house on a foundation of skill, education persistance, faith, determination, desire, and decision. Ever see a rich guy play the lotto, NO, because he makes his money from his skill, not luck. Ever see a guy who won millions from the lotto, if you saw him 10 years later he will have nothing (most likely). If you research and are of worth to the company you will get your job. Have fun""