Category: just for fun

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.

This one goes to 11

For all you fellow listmakers out there: Here’s one you may not appreciate. But read it anyway. You may learn something

From PurpleSlinky: The top 10 reasons not to make top 10 articles.

Plus my contribution (just because I love prime numbers, palindromes and Spinal Tap references):

11. Because a Friday Five packs more punch in half the list.

Speaking of Friday Fives, there will be none tomorrow. I’m taking a brief hiatus and a long Easter weekend. In the meantime, for those of you who didn’t get the headline or photo reference (or even if you did), enjoy, and Happy Easter. (BTW, I own a knockoff of the first guitar Nigel [Christopher Guest] displays to Marty [Rob Reiner].)