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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
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What NOT to do at a job interview...
Recently, a family member of ours had the task of interviewing folks to try and fill the position that she was about to vacate - Administrative Assistant to the President of the company.
Here is the story of one of those applicants:
This morning I interviewed the fourth candidate from [unnamed staffing company], & it was a very entertaining half hour!
First of all, she was 30 minutes late ('I got lost!'). Yes, I refrained from telling her that if you're serious about a position, you drive to the office of your potential employer ahead of time to be sure you know where it is, or at the very least Mapquest it.
Her response to my question - 'What do you know about our company?' was 'Nothing!' (Emphasis hers, said very brightly & quickly, as though I would give her points for perky ignorance). Even the previously worst candidate had visited our website. She was not familiar with Excel, and when I asked her if she knew anything about Macs, she wanted to know who 'Max' was.
When asked how the interviewer could keep a straight face:
It wasn't easy! Also, when I asked her to describe the kind of executive she would most like to work for, she said she wanted someone 'kind' who would be her mentor. Now, [my boss] is a great guy, but he does not give warm fuzzies. With the first three candidates, there was at least enough to talk about to fill an hour. With this one, I saw no point in asking her to give examples of her taking initiative in previous positions, or most of the other questions I had ready.
[The recruiter's] cover sheet for this resume said that the candidate is 'very personable & bright - she has been on several assignments & she is always a hit'. Somebody's either delusional or fibbing. I had really thought that [the recruiter] was a good judge of character.
To top it all off...
When I ended by saying 'What questions can I answer for you?' she immediately asked about pay & benefits.
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Consider this a lesson, folks. A lesson of the same caliber as 'don't spit into the wind.' :)
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Saturday, August 27, 2005
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Blog Culture - Even More Mainstream
This is a sign of the times - in a TV spot for the new CBS comedrama "How I Met Your Mother," Neil Harris' character says, "This is totally going on my Blog!"
Of course you know this means the end of the fad - once Doogie starts hocking something, it becomes passé.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
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Something Constructive
Much of the web - it seems - is filled with useless but interesting frivolity. Take walken2008 for example - clearly an exercise in humorous profligacy. I can see the 30-second campaign spots now: This country has a FEVER...
But then there's the useful, the regenerate, the redeeming - such as gasbuddy.com and the companion map from this site. Now here's a constructive use of time and energy. Someone takes Google Map API and welds it to a database of pump prices and there you have it - a meaningful and functional use of the web to save folks money.
For more brilliant uses of Google Maps, see Google Maps Mania and read this article (my source for today's foray).
Now excuse me while I attend to some serious business at Mousebreaker.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
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Convergence
I think this has been a long time coming. I'm decommissioning the satellite blogs. The Gaming Blog has been updated rather sporadically. If I'm being honest here, the same is true for the entire site.
This doesn't mean that I'll stop blogging. On the contrary, I plan to continue, and perhaps update more frequently - to this page right here. But the fragmentation has got to stop. There's just not enough content piping through to sustain the various pages.
Therefore, in the coming days, www.dreifuss.org will be a one-stop-shop for all things family, parenting, Christianity, and board gaming from this brain of mine (and Meg's). These things (and more) are who I am, and there's no need to continue to departmentalize.
Unfortunately, Thinking Christians Blog will also go the way of the dodo. That site was intended for multiple contributors. I simply cannot solely provide the content that such a site should have. Such a Blog should be a lively place full of thought-provoking and Biblical commentary on the world around us. My vision for that blog has not been realized. It takes quite a bit of work to keep up such a thing, and with my current commitments, I cannot keep it running alone.
That being said, I plan to post my honest reflections here, no matter what the subject.
More to come!
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Thursday, August 04, 2005
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All in A Day's Work
A conversation between myself (software support provider) and a customer:
Him: "Bingo! Thanks! How will I ever remember that one?"
Me: "All I can tell you is how I remember it -- blunt memorization."
Him: "Yeah, well I've got a mind like a steel...uh...whatchamacallit....you
know...grabby thingy that they catch animals with. So memorization will
work for me, you betcha. I got it stored away."
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
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Song for Now
On a day like this I want to crawl beneath a rock
A million miles from the world, the noise, the commotion
That never seems to stop
And on a day like this I want to run away from the routine
Run away from the daily grind that can suck the life
Right out of me
I know of only one place I can run to…
Chorus:
I want to hide in You
The Way, the Life, the Truth
So I can disappear
And love is all there is to see
Coming out of me
And You become clear
As I disappear
I don’t want to care about earthly things
Be caught up in all the lies that trick my eyes
They say it’s all about me
I’m so tired of it being about me…
I would rather be cast away
Separated from the human race
If I don’t bring You glory
from the song Disappear from the album Try
by Bebo Norman
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