My big one is that they need to stop asking why I applied for their company. The real answer is I want a new job, and I blasted out a hundred applications. I didn’t choose your company specifically.
My big one is that they need to stop asking why I applied for their company. The real answer is I want a new job, and I blasted out a hundred applications. I didn’t choose your company specifically.
Me too but it’s easier to find what they’re talking about and really hard to find what you’re talking about, and even harder to get hired. And 10x harder to know what you’re getting into before your first month in the job, so this answer is the most appropriate during the interview.
Yeah, that is why I was looking for a job for a year and a half before I landed this gig. I was ruthlessly picky. I am a damn good integration engineer/engineering technologist, and I asked a ton of questions in the three interviews I had in my search. I looked almost every day, applied to maybe 5 jobs, and attended 3 interviews. One job, I was a poor fit for them. One job they were a poor fit for me. The third job was a great fit on both ends, which was awesome because I had wanted to work there for years, but they never had a position open.
Ask. Lots. Of. Questions. Don’t just let them interview you, you both need to interview each other. you both have to live with each other.
Well it’s great if you can acknowledge that most people don’t have the privilege to choose where they’ll work. You know, with the tens of thousands of layoffs happening every year in IT alone.