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RE: Portfolios of samples as Interviewing criteria [Remembering]
Subject:RE: Portfolios of samples as Interviewing criteria [Remembering] From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:56:13 -0700
John wrote:
> When I arrive at the interview, when we sit down, I ... let it land on
> the table with a dull "whoomf", just loud enough to be heard but not
> hard enough to bounce coffee cups on the table, but I don't open it.
> In most cases, the eyes of the interviewer will keep dropping to the
> ..... I have in front of me as we speak.
>
> Finally, the anticipation will be too much and they ask to see it.
>
> I slowly unzip it and hand it to the person like it is something
> truly valuable, because it IS.
Wow - did anybody else need a cigarette after reading this? :)
I guess size does matter, and John's (tightly wrapped in it's shining black leather case) is quite obviously bigger than mine.
Keith Cronin
going off to increase the font size in his writing samples...
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