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RT: The Perfect Interview Test
Posted by titopao in bits and pieces on 12 November 2009
Found this article by Guy Kawasaki, one of Apple Inc.‘s early pioneers. The situation: you are an HR manager and you’re not sure if your interviewee is cut out for the job he or she is applying for. What do you do?
If you can’t arrange for an interviewee to cross the street to get to your building, arrange for the interview at a Starbucks, cafe or restaurant—preferably in Manhattan during rush hour, but any reasonably-sized city will do. Watch carefully. Secretly videotape it, if at all possible. These few seconds will tell you more about their workplace capabilities than an hour of tough questions.
And after figuring out which “type” I was, I realized maybe I was really cut out for a different job description all along 
hehehe
LINK: The Perfect Interview Test
Bits and Pieces: Roadtrip
Posted by titopao in bits and pieces on 26 October 2009
Some random musings derived from a recent out of town trip in the North:
- Anyone who thinks the Caleruega chapel in Tagaytay is the only one of its kind should visit churches in the Ilocos Region. Since many parishes in the North were run by the Dominicans, many churches there are also made up of red bricks
- PAGASA and international weather bureaus have warned of another impending typhoon. But we never found rain: only the bright sunlight everywhere, and the cool breeze of the night.
- We passed through many towns that were in the news during the rampage of typhoon Peping/Melor. No, there were no floods. But it’s alarming to find that many, many riverbanks have been eroded, as if the rivers widened by a meter. Meanwhile, business as usual…
- The best place to get your healthy dose of bangus is still in Dagupan. ‘Nuff said
- Spotted ABS-CBN’s Abner Mercado on a stopover on the way home. He’s a big, hefty guy but sans the keffiyeh shawl. He was on the phone for the most part; it looked like he was already discussing his next assignment just as he was already returning to newsroom.
- SM is going to open another mall in the provinces???