Comments on: Want a job? Learn to spell (And ditch the Star Trek uniform) http://www.badlanguage.net/want-a-job-learn-to-spell-and-ditch-the-star-trek-uniform Writing, marketing and technology Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:56:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: How to give good interview - Bad Language http://www.badlanguage.net/want-a-job-learn-to-spell-and-ditch-the-star-trek-uniform/comment-page-1#comment-653310 How to give good interview - Bad Language Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:48:01 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=226#comment-653310 [...] doing press interviews. For more tips on job interviews read How to be a really bad interviewee and Want a job? Learn to spell and Getting a job in the games industry on my personal site. Also, I’m sorry but I [...] [...] doing press interviews. For more tips on job interviews read How to be a really bad interviewee and Want a job? Learn to spell and Getting a job in the games industry on my personal site. Also, I’m sorry but I [...]

]]> By: LJL Spins and Knits http://www.badlanguage.net/want-a-job-learn-to-spell-and-ditch-the-star-trek-uniform/comment-page-1#comment-1276 LJL Spins and Knits Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:31:58 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=226#comment-1276 <strong>Cornocupia Friday...</strong> First . . . Knitting! Still working on mother's sock and mine as well. Can I say, I love shortrowing the heels? It makes so much sense, and this is what you find on commercial socks. I even managed...... Cornocupia Friday…

First . . . Knitting! Still working on mother’s sock and mine as well. Can I say, I love shortrowing the heels? It makes so much sense, and this is what you find on commercial socks. I even managed……

]]> By: Matthew Stibbe http://www.badlanguage.net/want-a-job-learn-to-spell-and-ditch-the-star-trek-uniform/comment-page-1#comment-1014 Matthew Stibbe Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:42:56 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=226#comment-1014 You are so right. Really slick interviews are almost as worrying as hopelessly bad ones. Like a blog without any spelling mistakes usually means that its been written by a PR company! I remember another interview where the candidate gossiped about the five companies that had employed him over the preceding few years and he slagged off everyone he met so badly. It was very entertaining and we got a lot of useful market intelligence but we didn't hire the guy because we knew he'd leave us in six months and go to the next company with all our gossip. You are so right. Really slick interviews are almost as worrying as hopelessly bad ones. Like a blog without any spelling mistakes usually means that its been written by a PR company! I remember another interview where the candidate gossiped about the five companies that had employed him over the preceding few years and he slagged off everyone he met so badly. It was very entertaining and we got a lot of useful market intelligence but we didn’t hire the guy because we knew he’d leave us in six months and go to the next company with all our gossip.

]]> By: Theresa Smith http://www.badlanguage.net/want-a-job-learn-to-spell-and-ditch-the-star-trek-uniform/comment-page-1#comment-1013 Theresa Smith Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:35:23 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=226#comment-1013 Slick interviewees are often the sign of lots of experience in being interviewed. They are not necessarily great employees. A really good interviewer will get the best out of an interviewee, often despite the interviewee's efforts. And those naive responses - hilarious! To be enjoyed and passed on, minus names of course. Slick interviewees are often the sign of lots of experience in being interviewed. They are not necessarily great employees. A really good interviewer will get the best out of an interviewee, often despite the interviewee’s efforts. And those naive responses – hilarious! To be enjoyed and passed on, minus names of course.

]]> By: Steve Lim http://www.badlanguage.net/want-a-job-learn-to-spell-and-ditch-the-star-trek-uniform/comment-page-1#comment-1007 Steve Lim Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:07:31 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=226#comment-1007 “I smoke a lot.” That part kept me laughing like 30 seconds in my Tuesday cloudy morning. Thanks ;) “I smoke a lot.”

That part kept me laughing like 30 seconds in my Tuesday cloudy morning.

Thanks ;)

]]> By: Owen Lystrup http://www.badlanguage.net/want-a-job-learn-to-spell-and-ditch-the-star-trek-uniform/comment-page-1#comment-1002 Owen Lystrup Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:47:54 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=226#comment-1002 Great advice, Matthew as always. My girlfriend just landed a management position at her job and is now in charge of hiring and building her own team. So I get all the horror stories of things people do in interviews. I think one of the worst was someone submitted a handwritten resume. I mean come on. Great advice, Matthew as always.

My girlfriend just landed a management position at her job and is now in charge of hiring and building her own team. So I get all the horror stories of things people do in interviews.

I think one of the worst was someone submitted a handwritten resume. I mean come on.

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