A couple job interview hacks from someone who has to give a job interview every single goddamn day: (disclaimer: this goes for my process and my company’s process, other companies and industries might be different)

1. There are a few things I check and a few questions I ask literally just to figure out if you can play the game and get along with others in a professional setting. Part of the job I interview for is talking to people, and we work in teams. So if you can’t “play the game” a tiny bit, it’s not going to work. Playing the game includes:

- Why do you want to work here? (just prove that you googled the company, tell me like 1 thing about us, I just want to know that you did SOME kind of preparation for this interview)

- Are you wearing professional clothing? I don’t need a suit just don’t show up in a ratty t-shirt and sweatpants.

- Are you able to speak respectfully and without dropping f-bombs all the time? Not because I’m offended but because I don’t want to be reported to HR if you wind up on my team.

- Can you follow simple directions in an interview?

2. Stop telling me protected information. I don’t want to know about what drugs or medications you’re on, I don’t want to know about you being sick, I don’t want to know if you’re planning to have children soon, I don’t want to know anything about your personal life other than “can you do the job?” 

3. When we ask, “What questions do you have for me?” here are my favorites I’ve heard: - What does the day-to-day look like for a member of your team?

- If one of your team members was not performing up to his usual standard, what steps would you take to correct that?

- What can I start doing now to accelerate my learning process in this job?

- What are some reservations you have about me as a candidate? (be ready for this emotionally….it will REALLY help you in the future, and I’ve had people save themselves from a No after this, but can be hard to hear)

- In your opinion, what skills and qualities does the ideal candidate for this job possess?

- What advice would you give to a new hire in this position/someone who wanted to break into this industry, as someone who has worked here for a while?

Those are just my tips off-the-cuff. I work in sales in marketing/SAAS, so these can be very different depending on the industry, but I wish the people I interview could read this before they show up. 

Yes STOP TELLING PEOPLE PROTECTED INFORMATION IN INTERVIEWS. do not volunteer anything including “I’m currently pregnant.”

AND PROTECTED INFORMATION INCLUDES OTHER PEOPLE’S INFORMATION FROM YOUR JOB EXAMPLES

I got told wayyyy too much patient information as an example from a former MOA today.

We asked you to describe a tough circumstance and you can do that without telling me the patient’s gender, location, or medical concerns in full detail.

The thing I was looking for was how you handled a call/diffused the situation/got help/worked with your team in a crisis.

Now I just think you a) can’t self edit, b) stay on topic or c) maintain client confidentiality.

Like I once organized a full emergency clinic from nowhere and nothing on a stat holiday due to a crisis on a large scale. I can discuss doing that without getting into the demographics of the people involved without providing enough info for you to potentially Google them after interviewing me for a job. Because the important thing in an interview is that I thought on my feet, found good resources for reliable information and was able to make the decision to go against protocol and call my medical team members to at least ask if they could come in.

Job people want to know what YOU bring to the table as a worker. Keep to the facts that are relevant to the potential employer.

As a former recruiter, who wanted you to get the job and make some money on it, and former recruiting manager, who wanted to hire you and get a department manager off my back - this is absolute 10/10 advice.

A few minor points: you may be asked about “ a mistake you made and how you fixed it”. PLEASE don’t say “I don’t make mistakes”… and don’t blame someone else, as in “I almost gave a patient an overdose, but it was my supervisor’s job to catch it, right?”

Don’t lie on your resume in a STUPID way on easy to check facts, like “ College degree”, when you quit after 2 semesters. They do keep records.

Don’t give your dude bro as your reference, pretending it’s your former manager. I may know your former manager, my client.

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It already drives me up the wall how many people's trans and nonbinary and agender interpretations of autistic characters seems to begin and end at an infantilizing "well he just doesn't get gender and never thinks about it because his autism just makes it too hard to understand it" and denying the possibility for autistic people to have any agency or complexity in their internal understanding of gender and identity. But it's made even worse by the fact that it is so often said as a rejection of people portraying those characters as any form of transfem.

Like someone will straight up be like "here's my interpretation of this character she is transfem and agender" and people will go "That doesn't make any sense because HE would NEVER be transfem HE wouldn't ever grow out his hair or wear a dress he would be agender and present and dress and use pronouns in the way I perceive to be the neutral and normal way" like. Get a grip. Think about your own biases for one second.

Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole? 

@the-collecting-turnip From top to bottom:

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa.  So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.

I once was talking to my Ethiopian manager about ignorant people asking her dumb shit about her life before she moved to the states…

the worst story she told me about was when she told a fellow student (at a fairly prestigious university) about a concert she went to back home. The other student responded with “omg you have music there!?” 🤦🏾‍♀️

Rebloging, because we need to see these pictures. 

As for stupid questions: “do you have grocery stores in Ecuador?”

These are great!

A redneck neighbor once asked my mom (in the 80s) if they had cars in Peru. Sigh.

This is the product of poor world history in school & little current affairs coverage outside Western Europe, except for catastrophes, so all we see are the war torn, poverty stricken, disaster-affected parts on the news. And racism, of course.

I bet most Americans who think that African countries are just completely poverty stricken have no idea what the US looks like in its poorest areas, not everywhere in the US is nice suburbs or unrealistically large apartments on tv

Los Angeles, California

Hartford, Connecticut

New Orleans, Louisiana

Camden, New Jersey

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

McDowell County, West Virginia

Flint, Michigan

Washington, D.C.

Do you see the world as it is, or as someone told you it is?

This photoset proves you can make anywhere look great or terrible. It’s all framing and more people should know about that

Worth a reblog. I don’t think the US version was on there when I first reblogged.

The problem EVERYWHERE is INEQUALITY

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@ White people when they talk about having "a spirit animal"

@ White people when

they talk about having “a

spirit animal”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Babygirl you are the ☀️

Even when you can't open your curtains to welcome the sunlight. Even when your heart feels twice as small as it usually is. Even in the deepest dark you know. Especially then.

Inspired by @wetheurban

just 2 poison frogs in luv

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U.S. conservatives always talk about creating jobs but get SO MAD whenever anyone mentions banning prison labor like imagine the insane ammout of jobs that would be created literally overnight if companies in your country had to actually employ people instead of using slave labor from people that got caught with weed 10 years ago.

Daily reminder that the US, who love to scaremonger about "communist labour camps," have legal slave labour if you're in prison

Constitution of the United States

Thirteenth Amendment

Section 1

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

source

i loveeeeeee nonlinear storytelling. show me where we are. now show me how we got here. the end before the beginning. show me how it was inevitable or how many chances we had to change things(nothing was ever going to change). let's meet in the middle as all the puzzle pieces slide into place hell yeah that's the good shit.

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