Lost in translation

Job interview anecdotes – I could write a book!

There was the one where an MP (I won’t name names) spent most of the interview discussing Nazi henchmen and his mother who shared my name.
Interviewers – banter is good, but please try to be professional and job specific at this point.

The financial tv news editor who wore a crumpled t-shirt and questioned where I was going so ‘dressed up’, in a suit anyone would wear for a job interview.
Interviewers – try not to alienate or be overfamiliar or personal at this stage.

My personal favourite weird interview was the company director who headhunted me and then in the formal interview later expressed condolences for my father who had died seven years before, whom he didn’t know and learnt of by ‘Googling’ me and discovering I once did a sponsored walk in his memory.
Interviewers – see above!