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Wise words: "You are not going there to get a job, you are going there to present what you do... then walk away."

I think if more people took this attitude of employment being an arrangement of mutual benefit that both sides are engaged in, the world would be a better place.



I think this could be applied to many encounters; dating seems to be the most obvious.


So long as you don't use PowerPoint.


Ice always treated interviews as a way of getting to know a bit about the place I might work. I haven't had a whole heap but had always assumed that it was a two way street.


> I haven't had a whole heap but had always assumed that it was a two way street.

It absolutely is a two-way street, as you describe. When I go on interviews, I get into the mindset that I should interview them as much as they interview me. It's actually saved me from taking on a couple of bad roles.




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