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It's been a very HR day. I had never interviewed an employment applicant before, least of all to be my boss. Tough to come up with questions, in fact, that weren't "Please restate your resume, so I can hear you talk and decide if you are nice, and have a clue." But I think she'll do OK, if hired; I could work with her. She won't be as detail oriented, I think, as my outgoing boss, but that may not be a bad thing. P could drive herself nuts worrying about saving $2.

Also today were employee reviews (administered by P, my outgoing boss). Very nice and favorable, and I got a promotion one grade, plus a raise! Yay! She particularly praised me for finding stuff for D's expert witness case last December, and for my excellence in teamwork (by which I suspect she means not whining when asked to cover for somebody).

Comments

[galaneia.livejournal.com]

Aha! It's called "behavioral interviewing?" I've had interviews that were entirely done in that style, and I've come to hate it. In part because the interviewers were clearly reading from a prewritten list of questions that they didn't necessarily care about, and in part because dredging through my memory for specific instances is a rather time-consuming process.

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

Yes. People who actively seem to be reading off a script are doing it really badly. Recently the questions seem to come in a questionnaire (which makes my brain hurt, since the point is supposed to be to see how you respond [struggle, easily, refuse to stay on point, or whatever]). My shrink says that if they want to be dumb, it gives me time to carefully choose my answers and word them just exactly correctly. My win.