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Dog at the interview
Oct 19th
Through my years of conducting medical staffing, I have never come across anything quite like this. I’ve interviewed drug addicts and criminals.
Single parents and new grads. Some came with their wives or husbands, some with their parents, some just brought a friend. Today I interviewed a woman for an open Art Therapist position at a local hospital. She walked in dressed very casually, looking almost Bohemian, with a long bag over her shoulder. As she’s taking a seat in front of me, out of the bag comes a long Pekingese! I was shocked! And she even brought the dog a bone! While I was trying to interview this woman, her dog sat on her lap chewing the bone, and kept barking at me cautiously to make sure that I wasn’t going for her prize.
I’m not sure what the hell she was thinking – how do you coach somebody on something like that? I mean you can coach on wardrobe, resume, grammar, posture… but you would think that someone with a masters from Columbia would think twice…
At one point, I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt, and asked her if the reason why she brought the dog in is because she is considering Read the rest of this entry »
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