The interviewer cracked
The editor of Cracked magazine, Jay Pinkerton, did an interview that went rather badly, and he blogged about what it’s like to be on the other side of an interview:
In working for a magazine [that] conducts interviews, I’ve come across people who outright refuse to take questions by phone or in person, asking for them by email instead. I’d always figured it was because these people were huge pussies. Now I finally understand. It’s because doing an interview by phone or in person embodies all the negative aspects of public speaking (feeling the glare of the spotlight, knowing everything you say will be absorbed skeptically by a large group of strangers) without any of the perks (preparing your comments beforehand, practicing in front of a mirror).
Read all the details of My Bad Interview.
Posted: December 19th, 2006 under Interviewer Experiences, Interviews Gone Bad, Phone Interviews, The Fear Factor.
Comment from Bob LeDrew
Time December 19, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Excellent case study — there aren’t many interview subjects who are so willing to talk about how and why they failed at an interview. Good for him — and thanks for finding and blogging it.
PS: I’ve been to several of Kingston’s finer prisons (work-related, not ‘overnight stays’ — and while Pinkerton thinks there’s nary an animal that can outrun a greased-up Scotsman, I can tell you that if you put some of the people I met inside behind me, I’d outrun 100 greased-up Scotsmen. But I digress.