Comments on: 7 Interview Tips That Help You Get the Killer Quotes and Color Your Story Needs http://marketcopywriterblog.com/2010/06/21/7-interview-tips-that-help-you-get-the-killer-quotes-and-color-your-story-needs/ MarketCopywriter's Blog Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:51:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lorraine Thompson http://marketcopywriterblog.com/2010/06/21/7-interview-tips-that-help-you-get-the-killer-quotes-and-color-your-story-needs/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Lorraine Thompson Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:30:36 +0000 http://marketcopywriterblog.com/?p=3795#comment-489 @Paul: Thanks for kindly calling my post "definitive"--it certainly is <em>long</em>. Paraphrasing Pascal, If I had more time I would have made it shorter--or at least split it into two posts. Thanks also for sharing your hilarious HR story. After conducting hundreds of interviews I'm sure you have dozens of interview tips to share--along with many, many more funny and edifying stories. Hmmm, sounds like a great book... @Paul: Thanks for kindly calling my post “definitive”–it certainly is long. Paraphrasing Pascal, If I had more time I would have made it shorter–or at least split it into two posts. Thanks also for sharing your hilarious HR story. After conducting hundreds of interviews I’m sure you have dozens of interview tips to share–along with many, many more funny and edifying stories. Hmmm, sounds like a great book…

]]> By: Paul Hassing http://marketcopywriterblog.com/2010/06/21/7-interview-tips-that-help-you-get-the-killer-quotes-and-color-your-story-needs/comment-page-1/#comment-486 Paul Hassing Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:33:35 +0000 http://marketcopywriterblog.com/?p=3795#comment-486 Dang! Another rich and relevant article, Lorraine. I'm getting very jealous. Your expertise fairly drips from this one. I like how every piece you write feels definitive - as if further reading is redundant. In HR, I did hundreds of interviews. I recall one former Eastern Bloc lady who'd come to make a new life in Australia. She had everything we needed in a lab technician. Except I couldn't get a handle on her personality. I tried every legitimate personal question in the book. Finally, I asked her what she did in her spare time. She thought for a long, long time, fixed me with a steely Soviet stare and intoned: 'I haff poossie kat.' She got the job. Best regards, P. :) Dang! Another rich and relevant article, Lorraine. I’m getting very jealous. Your expertise fairly drips from this one.

I like how every piece you write feels definitive – as if further reading is redundant.

In HR, I did hundreds of interviews. I recall one former Eastern Bloc lady who’d come to make a new life in Australia. She had everything we needed in a lab technician. Except I couldn’t get a handle on her personality. I tried every legitimate personal question in the book. Finally, I asked her what she did in her spare time.

She thought for a long, long time, fixed me with a steely Soviet stare and intoned:

‘I haff poossie kat.’

She got the job.

Best regards, P. :)

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