[HPFGU-OTChatter] Need job interview advice. Please.

[Sherry Gomes]

Lee said:
Personally, I do prefer the honest approach.  Perhaps stating that there was
a conflict of interest might work.  You're telling the truth; you wanted to
do the work properly, your employer blamed her goofs on you which means she
was not interested in doing hhis/her work properly.  So, a conflict of
interest might work.

If further questioned about it, I would say that there were internal
problems which are too complicated to get into.  Hope that helps some.



Sherry:
in a previous job, I used to teach interviewing techniques to blind adults
who were learning skills for employment.  So, I studied all the current
trends in job hunting and what employers were looking for.  It's best to be
honest, without going too much into details.  it's ok to say there were
internal conflicts or something like that.  But it has to be said in such a
way as to not come off as sounding too critical of your former employer or
supervisor.  I would not say, my supervisor blamed everyone else for her
mistakes ... but I might say there were difficulties in the workplace that
made it uncomfortable for me to work there, or that there was internal
conflict that made it an uncomfortable place to work.  You're saying the
essential truth without going into details.  If that makes sense.

sherry