Me glad I teached English good, but.
7 July 2004, 00:52
I have already expressed my aversion to “behavioural-type interviews”, probably because I am rather badly behaved and have killed most of my recall brain-cells already. When I interviewed last time, for a job at the Bank-Which-Cannot-Be-Named, I missed out. Must have been my crossed eyes and lazy tongue.
So it was with great joy and anticipation that I interviewed with the same B-W-C-B-N late last week for a newly-created position. This Bank’s interviews are h.a.r.d c.o.r.e. It’s not like I’m up for C.E.O of Margin Risk or anything, can’t little ol’ Kinki get herself a nice little jobbie with a minimum of fuss?
Nuh-uh. I had to navigate 90 minutes of intense “Name a specific time when… what was the context… what did you do… what was the result…what. what. what. why. why. no. not what. why“ questioning from the “People Capital” rep (fancypants for “Human Resources” in case you were confused) and the Manager. Apparently I aced the first interview, except for that really suck-arse job I did of the behavioural section. The Manager wanted to see me again yesterday over coffee, to decide if I really did suck, or if I was just pretending.
The interview was going quite well, there were a few behavioural questions, but nothing uber-nasty, when the interviewer forebodingly said she had “one last question”...
Q: “In English grammar, what are all the ways you would use the apostrophe?”.
Turns out she hates English-grammar-numnuts and my superlative knowledge of apostrophes and comparitives won me the job.
You can congratulate me now.
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