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Chewing gum with a baseball hat on. 🙄
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Yikes.
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I’ve had some horrific phone screen screens that should never have made it past a recruiter but if you do this right, the recruiter and first interviewer generally weeds out the horror stories.
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Me: What interests you about the role?
Him: Well you’re a few blocks from my office and I was on my lunch break so
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I forget what I asked but they answered in that kinda reflexive pause an "I don't know", but it just wasn't a question to answer that to. It was like what was the goal of the campaign or what was your strategy, something like that. And we were clearly just scratching the surface of what they didn't know at this point.
I did my best not to laugh, told them this had been great, let them ask a few questions, and got off asap.
Question for you: Where do you get your industry news from?
Answer for you: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat and Google.
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So I asked again, expanding on the Q a bit in hopes of hearing something along the lines of Google Ads blog, The Drum, Ad Age, AdXchanger, Marketing Land ... Anything!
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Yep, got the exact same answer!