<p>With your sales background in person is ideal. You can always do Skype or GoToMeeting. It’s the next best thing.
Just crunching some numbers here. Out of fourteen, two have made the finals. Those are better numbers than last years thread, and I anticipate those numbers will improve by the end of next week.</p>
<p>skype and gotomeeting only help if we utilize video feed. ironically, my sales experience was 80% by phone, so i’m confident in my abilities through that medium. we shall see. face to face sales calls are just that much easier.</p>
<p>good about the numbers. if ivy made it and he/she is full of it, are we bound to report the discrepancy?</p>
<p>Ilivefree, I was having the same thought. It is almost like a duty. The slot should go to worthy qualified applicants, not con artists.</p>
<p>My sense is Ivy got an interview for real and was just lying on the forum about his entire application. So much so probably that it would be tough to figure out who it was. But his post was for sure entirely reprehensible.</p>
<p>hmm… an ethical dilemma of sorts. if i get a “letter”, i’ll report immediately. i’m hesitant to do so prior as i do not want the perception to be had that i’m reporting it to eliminate a competitor.</p>
<p>Yeah, my essay had to be it. I discussed my career a lot, working full time since I was 16. I actually had success in financial accounting on the resume and a little in the essay. I described what it was like to be LATINO, etc. All the hardships, etc. I also had a ghost writer do my essay–he studied film and cosmology in New York. He was worth the 500 bucks, for sure.</p>
<p>ivy, you’re rather amusing in an un-amusing way. and in my opinion, yanking our chains.</p>
<p>I would love to see your essay Ivy, must really rock!</p>
<p>by the way, ivy, what country are you from (or your family). habla espanol?</p>
<p>Puerto rican mexican I think he said which is odd in itself. The two groups do not “usually” get along…</p>
<p>I have heard nothing so far. I will keep an eye on my mail today and tomorrow.</p>
<p>okay… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… </p>
<p>I just calmed down. Things are back to normal again. Thanks, Ilivefree, for the prep advice. I will prep, prep. prep for this whole thing. I wonder what they will ask me? This is going to be strange.</p>
<p>there are so many things they could ask; run through all the possibilities in your head. be prepared to elaborate on things in your essay and mentioned in your app. </p>
<p>do your research on “why yale”. </p>
<p>prepare questions of your own (though it’s important not to drill them with questions, let them learn about you; usually interviews of all types end with “can i answer any questions for you?”)</p>
<p>i’ve you’ve ever been on a gnarly job interview, i suspect it will be like that, times ten.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. I am working on why Yale right now.</p>
<p>Do you think they will ask me tons of questions about my personal statement? I know it very well, but I do not want to be caught off guard.</p>
<p>You will be judged from the moment you’ll walk in.
“Oh, this person doesn’t have a chance.”</p>
<p>There are no right answers. If you are what they’re looking for, no matter what you say, you will be in. It’s about them, not you.</p>
<p>Interesting insight. Are you alluding to “image” or something else? I am in consulting and know employers,especially the fortune 500, base their hiring decisions on overall style once the qualifications meet their standard. It is the deal breaker or maker.</p>
<p>Matthew Fox, from TV’s LOST and Party of Five fame, is a Columbia graduate who very nearly went into a career at Wall Street. There’s an anecdote of his that’s often quoted that refers to his first hiring experience.</p>
<p>Apparently, a bigtime Wall Street firm hires Fox, his new colleagues line up to congratulate him. After shaking hands and pats on the back, one of them blurts out, “We’re going to have to do something about your shoes.”</p>
<p>Fox looked down, and all his new colleagues were wearing EXACTLY the same shoes. He never returned.</p>
<p>tee hee, jan, that is quite amusing.</p>
<p>Should I wear a suit? I’m going to wear a suit.</p>
<p>If I get an interview, I’m going to wear a costume. What do you guys think? Bunch of grapes costume, or vampire? Ooh, or I could wear a suit, but then also have the vampire fangs in and be sure not to show my teeth until the interview has started. Sweeeeeet. </p>
<p>Of course, no call today, so I’m butterflies all the way home to the mailbox. I may never even get a CHANCE to use my plastic vampire fangs.</p>