RE: Interviews: Where do you see yourself in 5 years

Subject: RE: Interviews: Where do you see yourself in 5 years
From: "Swallow, William" <WSwallow -at- courion -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:15:00 -0400

:: When I was a recruiter, that question was used to determine
:: your character as much as your goals.

Good to know.

:: So....you can start with your personal goal of retired
:: lottery winner to break
:: the ice and then say "seriously, since the lottery is not a
:: high statistical
:: probablility, I'd like to expand my experience in blah blah
:: blah" and take it from there.

You say tomato, I say the solid state of ketchup. ;)

If my goal was "retired lottery winner", my follow-up wouldn't turn back
into the hear and now. If they want 5 years from now, why not go with the
less statistically probable? I could very well win the lottery (if I bought
tickets *g*), in which case I'd have built houses in all the locations I'd
like to live in, I'd have bought my toys (oh! the toys!), and would have
bought the best home network money could buy (with all the trimmings). Then
I'd act on whim, probably toggling between lounging (as any millionaire
should), playing with family and friends, and working on the home network,
learning all the neat things I could possibly be interested in (a list I
have not hit the bottom of yet).

Like I said, it's not all formality. You're not only trying to "win a
job"... you gotta LIVE with these people! (Even if it's only 9 hours a day,
5 days a week, or whatever). So if it's in your nature to have fun, have
fun. You gotta be happy there, and they gotta be happy to have YOU (not that
person who was at the interview) be there too.

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BILL SWALLOW
Technical Writer
C O U R I O N C O R P O R A T I O N
1881 Worcester Road
Framingham, Mass. 01701
T E L * 508-879-8400 x316
F A X * 508-879-8500
www.courion.com
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