Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by
someone who is
detached
SIMONE WEIL


Friday, February 19, 2010

Interview with a Non-Vampire

Job interviews are a strange beast. If you stop to think about it logically, the event is merely two or more people sitting, having a chat for 10-20 minutes. Though that person may earn more and/or own a company, he or she is no better nor no worse of a person that you are.

And yet we enter these interviews nervous and jittery and with very little of our true selves showing.

They are strange little things, snapshots in time where we must put our best foot forward so that we can be judged based on our appearance (despite the old adage of never judging books by their covers) and ability to answer questions. We are given such short periods of time to prove ourselves and yet for some unknown reason we become stuttering, blubbering shades of yes-men.

Okay so that may be an exaggeration. There's no real stuttering and blubbering going on. But shades of yes-men....??

Answering questions the way that we think they should be answered, using words that we think want to be heard. The clothes worn fit the bill of a corporate uniform...speaking from a script and playing our parts so that we can become yet another of the clones that populate the globe.

We teach our children so many things about originality and non conformity. We teach them not to judge others and to always do what is true to themselves. I wonder what would be the result if people went into job interviews with that approach. If we wore street clothes and piercings; if we failed to guard out speech and used the swears and slang's that fall so easily from lips; if the world was a little less corporate.

Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places.

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