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Article: Hot pants - they're such a bad career move
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2008
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ANYONE who comes for a job interview at ES magazine is
scrutinised. How well do they know the magazine? Are they
articulate, full of ideas, plucky under pressure? I have begun to
fancy myself as an interview pro; perceptive, with rigorous
standards. So I was horrified last week to bump into a former
colleague at a party who reminded me of my first job interview at a
glossy magazine when I was 22. "It was, without doubt, the worst
interview I have ever seen," she said.
"For a start, you were wearing hot pants. And you were so laid-
back. You didn't seem clear whether you wanted the job or not." I am
afraid to say all this was true (apart from the laid-back bit I was
paralysed by fear). I ...