Re: A cautionary tale

[Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com>]

STEVES -at- YARDI -dot- com (Steve Shepard) writes:
>
>I sympathize with Paul and I understand both your perspectives, but as a
>manager, I have a different take. When I interview someone, I rarely have
>the time, then and there, to give someone's portfolio the attention it
>deserves and I often want my editor(s) to look at it and give me feed back.
>So, I always ask for the interviewee to leave it. But, I arrange for it's
>return then and there. What day they can pick it up, where, etc.
>
>But, if I was interviewing for a job, I would be cautious about leaving a
>portfolio myself. What to do?
>
>Late last year I interviewed people for a position and the two people I
>ended up interviewing both left me their portfolios. They both got them back
>in the same condition they left it with me.
>

I would agree with Damien that I would hesitate greatly to 
leave my portfolio at all. If I absolutely had to, though, 
I'd probably make returning it as easy as possible by also 
providing a self-addressed stamped envelope or folded 
FedEx box and form with it.

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