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35. Having to explain to the interviewer what I do.

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Sat Jan 10, 2015, 08:04 AM

Jan 2015

I can't remember the position now, just that it was a drafting job. The interviewer was a low-level HR person that had never interviewed anyone in any form of engineering field. I had to explain to her not only what I did in relation to the position, but that I used drawing software called AutoCAD to do it. She was not familiar with any of the details about the position, and so couldn't ask questions related to my experience.

She at least admitted in the beginning that she had no experience interviewing for my kind of work, giving me all kinds of internal red flags about how the interview would go or what would happen to my chances. No, I didn't get the job, and I figure they probably went through many qualified applicants before figuring out it wasn't for a lack of good experience on our part.

The best interviews have always been with the people I'd be working with directly: the engineers and the lead designers. I've never had good interviews with HR people.

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