Month: April 2009

Some not-so-good advice for job-seekers

If you’re out looking for a job in this tough economy and are looking for some tips on how to nail that interview, here’s a little advice for you:

Don’t talk about that time you stole office chairs from your previous employer, m’kay?

That’s one of several stupid interview tricks caught on film in the “Candid Camera”-meets-Borat videos of unsuspecting job-seekers. Watch more on How To Nail An Interview and consider them all cautionary tales.

More about this project and the guy behind it (he works in search engine marketing) at this CNET report.

Maybe the recession is not the real problem…

Lisa Barone’s post on why we need to quit blaming the recession for our situation is a real kick in the pants, in a good way.

For the past few months you’ve had an excuse for when life didn’t go your way. Every time you borked something that you were maybe never qualified to do in the first place, you had THE perfect excuse just waiting to be pulled out. It was like the economy dug its own hole just so it could bail you out in your time of need. W00t!

You couldn’t pay your mortgage and your house was foreclosed on? Don’t worry, it wasn’t you, it was the recession. You lost your job and now you’re stuck at home cruising Twitter ‘looking for a new one’ all day? Don’t fret. It wasn’t you, it’s the recession. Can’t find new clients so you’re left bitterly blogging that clients suck and the frauds in the industry are stealing your dollars? Calm down, pretty, have a cookie and take a nap. It’s the recession.

Check it out.

Thanks to @LenKendall for the find.