Does this make me a freak?
 

I like job interviews.

Is that weird?

I don't know how it is for other professions, but I am on a lot of headhunters' (job recruiters) lists. Sometimes I just talk to stay in touch and see what is going on in the rest of the world. Keep my interview chops sharp.

I heard about an interesting opening with a very large and respectable company. The first step was a phone interview with their HR department today. And I actually enjoyed it. 40 minutes of joy.

Okay, maybe it is because I get to talk about myself. That happens to be a favorite topic. :evil:

Or maybe it is the hope of being able to get away from the imbecile that I work for now.

Maybe it is easy for me because I don't NEED to find a job. But there have been times when I was actually out of work and STILL enjoyed the interview process. I really don't know what it is - I just like to do it!

Is that strange?

nah. I dont mind interviews so much. Ive been on enough of them that its pretty rare that they can throw something new at me.

so no, not entirely an oddball....no more than me anyway. :P

From my point of view it is strange, but there's nothing wrong with that.

I am completely confident in my skills as they exist and in my ability to quickly gain new ones. But I am also completely unwilling to toot my own horn and when it comes to employment this is a problem since nobody else will do it for you. I hate talking about myself with strangers. I hate small talk. I hate having to ask questions, even if I don't really have any (so as to appear engaged). I hate the whole process.

I'm with Alex on this one. I am very confident of my career skills, but I really prefer someone else tout my abilities. I love it when other businesses try to lure me away, which is probably the same as your liking the interview process, but I really cannot say I ever enjoyed the 'Tell me why you are the best for this position' crap.

Not strange at all. I love interviews. It's getting the face to face interviews that's the challenge...
:)

There's plenty of other things that make you a freak, Kevy :)

My first thought at the title was, "Can someone that's already a freak be made a freak again?" :p

I, too, like job interviews. They are one of the few times when I don't feel socially awkward. I'm really really good at job interviews. I've never gone on an interview and not gotten the job. And I've had lots of jobs for someone my age. I imagine I'm rusty by now though, as I've not interviewed in over three years.

To answer the thread's question...no, THIS doesn't make you a freak...


Ugh, I dread that as well. I hate when it's an interview with several different people scheduled at 30 minute intervals. Invariably, I'm done within 15 minutes and have to somehow uncomfortably kill another 15 minutes until the next person is ready. And any questions I do have, I waste on the very first interviewer, so now I have nothing to ask anyone else. Bleh.

I love them too! But, I'm a fellow freak.

Back in HS/College I used to love tests........not so much because I was good at them but more because I looked at it kind of like a day off from having to learn;)

I've managed to avoid job interviews on my own behalf for 20 years now. I've been at the same company all that time and have had the good fortune to have other people come to me when there were new opportunities. (Good thing since I can be very lazy and resistant to change.) For the past 10 years I've been the one interviewing job candidates and I really feel for the applicants who've had to endure my "wing it" style of interviewing.

Sounds like my days as a bachelor...:D

No, that's not the reason why.

Oh, I love job interviews. I just hating prepping my resume for each application. My body hates it too. I ache in ways that I have never ached after the physical task of the online job-search.

(So sayeth a person on the hunt at present.)

I can't say I love interviews, but I feel that I'm good at it and I do enjoy the challenge somewhat. In the waiting room I get the fun nervous tension/adrenaline that I'm sure skydivers get before jumping, and afterwards, if I did well, it's quite a high.

I have one coming up next week for a promotion and I keep going over it in my head. Should be interesting.

I got a silver medal in the Interview portion of the Academic Decathalon in high school, so I can't be that bad at it. That one was especially scary - 15 minutes to impress people that see one student after another. Plus, I had put on my info sheet that I had traveled to South Africa, so the African-American man on my panel asked me about that...talk about pressure! After I left that room I did a full-on fist pump "Yessss!" in the hallway :D