Take This Job And Shove It!

My friend Suzy Mills posted a few comments on her website today about handling job interviews. I think her points are very good and I would recommend everybody take a look. She can be linked from my main page.
Her most valid point is the one in which she says to be yourself (and no, that does not mean showing up in boxers and scratching your nuts throughout the interview) because if you come across as conservative, they will assume you ARE conservative. I was not chosen for a job last year simply because they asked *my management style and I could tell it wasn't what they were looking for. As for the etiquette about not asking about benefits...they know the etiqutte also, and knowing you won't ask, they can get away with short shifting you later. If you want to avoid problems later on down the line, you had better ask about the benefits that are important to you, or risk bad feelings later.

*My management style, if anyone cares : I like to delegate. If I am running a department that has different shifts, diverse duties or anything of that nature, I pick one person who best represents that shift or specific duty and make them a team leader. The team leaders and I then get together to make decisions. I definitely still run the department, but, have the luxury of more input when it comes down to decision time. I find a team effort works better than one guy making all of the decisions. The guys that I played hockey with, know my style...I would run the team, but have one forward lead the forwards and I would usually lead the defense and we would make decisions together on what we wanted done. In the 10 or so years I played, my teams won many championships. It took the right combination of talent, leadership and personalities to win all of those games. My guys were not always the most skilled, but damn it if they weren't the best TEAM. I think my biggest source of pride was that we were all friends as well as teammates. On most teams, that wasn't the case.