10-21-2016, 12:12 PM
I still recommend not doing it.
I'm retired, I've been to a few job interviews. Not too many, because I almost always got the job. I have interviewed quite a number of people for good-paying jobs as well.
I don't want to see anything about the person except those things that will tell me, in the brief interview period, what I need to know about the prospective employee.
If the person's clothes are slightly disheveled, if the hair seems quickly patted down, if they in any way seem distracted and not entirely earnest and focused on wanting to prove to me that they, and no one else, are the BEST person for that job - and that I would be a darn fool NOT to hire them - that person will not be at the top of my list.
You want to mix business with pleasure, do so, but keen interviewers will notice those things and may well take away a couple of notions.
First, that the interviewee seems distracted and in some way not quite as comfortable and prepared as they would like; second, that the person may be the type to "mix business with pleasure" when he or she is on the clock.
I am speaking from 30 years in the public and private sectors, from a very high level of employee interview experience.
If you are not sure, and wanted to get some feedback, then just go with your gut. Drive there, be relaxed, be confident. Riding a bike, you never know what kind of problem you might get into. An altercation, someone cuts you off, you get upset and it shows, and so on.
One thing I do see is that people have placed far too much credence and faith in what the Internet contains. Trust yourself.
I'm retired, I've been to a few job interviews. Not too many, because I almost always got the job. I have interviewed quite a number of people for good-paying jobs as well.
I don't want to see anything about the person except those things that will tell me, in the brief interview period, what I need to know about the prospective employee.
If the person's clothes are slightly disheveled, if the hair seems quickly patted down, if they in any way seem distracted and not entirely earnest and focused on wanting to prove to me that they, and no one else, are the BEST person for that job - and that I would be a darn fool NOT to hire them - that person will not be at the top of my list.
You want to mix business with pleasure, do so, but keen interviewers will notice those things and may well take away a couple of notions.
First, that the interviewee seems distracted and in some way not quite as comfortable and prepared as they would like; second, that the person may be the type to "mix business with pleasure" when he or she is on the clock.
I am speaking from 30 years in the public and private sectors, from a very high level of employee interview experience.
If you are not sure, and wanted to get some feedback, then just go with your gut. Drive there, be relaxed, be confident. Riding a bike, you never know what kind of problem you might get into. An altercation, someone cuts you off, you get upset and it shows, and so on.
One thing I do see is that people have placed far too much credence and faith in what the Internet contains. Trust yourself.