{"id":291,"date":"2010-07-19T18:12:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2010-07-19T18:12:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:12:47","slug":"i-was-hoping-you-wouldnt-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"I was hoping you wouldn&#8217;t ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just failed a screening interview.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t even a phone screening. It was an online survey and I was unwilling to lie enough to pass through the filter. On my resume I just avoided the awkward bits where I didn&#8217;t quite meet the requirements, but then to submit it I had to check boxes and enter numbers&#8211;cold, hard numbers&#8211;which won&#8217;t align with the hard-coded requirements for being considered.<\/p>\n<p>I have been spending a lot of time thinking about how to spin this or that detail, how to re-focus on the positive, all of that good interview stuff. But the form didn&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How many years have you done x?<\/li>\n<li>In what subject is your degree?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even worse were the &#8220;soft&#8221; questions with choose-one answers. &#8220;To what would you attribute past successes?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I cringed as I selected &#8220;Mostly individual effort.&#8221; Wrong answer! But, even though I could talk all kinds of pep about the great and knowledgeable people that I work with, all of the work I have done relevant to the job I was applying actually got done mostly by me. It&#8217;s not that I am so great. It&#8217;s just that the work I have done relevant to the job I applied for is way outside of the scope of the job I am in, beyond even the department I am in. I did the work because it helped, I could, and I loved it. But there wasn&#8217;t anybody around who could help me, really.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually possible that I&#8217;m not sunk. I am going outside the system as well as through it. Maybe the someone who knows someone has enough influence that I will still get a call for a real interview.<\/p>\n<p>But I won&#8217;t hold my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just failed a screening interview. It wasn&#8217;t even a phone screening. It was an online survey and I was unwilling to lie enough to pass through the filter. On my resume I just avoided the awkward bits where I didn&#8217;t quite meet the requirements, but then to submit it I had to check boxes and enter numbers&#8211;cold, hard numbers&#8211;which <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=291\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}