{"id":405,"date":"2007-09-25T14:25:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T21:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/405\/pushing-their-buttons"},"modified":"2007-09-25T14:25:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T21:25:53","slug":"pushing-their-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/405\/pushing-their-buttons","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Their Buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t even been interviewed all that many times in my life, but I&#8217;ve met with each and every one of the interview creatures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randsinrepose.com\/\">Rands<\/a> describes in his latest article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randsinrepose.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/25\/the_button.html\">The Button<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe elaborates on several stereotypes you&#8217;re liable to meet in the interview room while you&#8217;re searching for your next job, and tries to put some logic behind their behavior, while giving you tips for dealing with them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI particularly like the presumption that the utmost goal of the interview is to get more information out of your interviewer than they get out of you. Essentially he suggests that people who are influential enough to do something meaningful with information about you will also be directed enough to make sure they get it. Everybody else, you might as well use them for your own purposes, to get more information about the job and whether you actually want to take it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t even been interviewed all that many times in my life, but I&#8217;ve met with each and every one of the interview creatures Rands describes in his latest article, The Button. He elaborates on several stereotypes you&#8217;re liable to meet in the interview room while you&#8217;re searching for your next job, and tries to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}