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Brain farts, silly questions,
frazzled nerves – they happen
to the best of us. These stories
will help you avoid (or recover
from) an interview disasterINTERVIEW
DISASTERS!
A N D H O W T O A V O I D T H E M
JERKS
HAPPEN
Melissa Allen,
Integrated Product
Team Lead, The Boeing Company
“The recruiter for an internship
asked me complex questions on
subjects I hadn’t studied yet, then
belittled me for not knowing the
answers. I left feeling that I had
chosen the wrong fi eld and tearfully
called my mother. She reminded
me that I was smart and talented.
She was right.”UNHAPPY
ENDING
Kristen Welker,
NBC News White
House correspondent “As I shook
hands goodbye with a producer
I’d just had a great interview with
early in my career, I blurted out,
‘If you off er me the job, can I have
time to think about it?’ That’s what
my parents had prepped me to
say... when I got an actual job off er.
It was a lesson in damage control.”GRITTING
IT OUT
Eleanor Langston,
founder and CEO,
Paintbox Nail Studio “The day
after I had surgery to remove a
vein in my leg, a magazine called
me in to meet with the editor-in-
chief for my dream job. I had
bandages wrapped around my
knee and up to my hip, but I [hid]
it all by wearing a DVF dress and
heels. No one ever knew that I
only put on my Louboutins to walk
down the hall for my meeting.”Oh no, she didn’t!
Oh yes, she did...