Comments on: Don’t expect Reason in the Interview Process http://brucemctague.com/don%e2%80%99t-expect-reason-in-the-interview-process Thu, 10 May 2012 15:47:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ana Lopez Chauvet http://brucemctague.com/don%e2%80%99t-expect-reason-in-the-interview-process/comment-page-1#comment-391 Ana Lopez Chauvet Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:22:42 +0000 http://brucemctague.com/?p=763#comment-391 I have to update my comment of my interview process. Well, finally after two panel interviews and one Mexican concert I got the job , I just signed all the papers, let me tell you that I was impressed by the economic proposal (for me “as a Mexican” it was way tooo good” I was expecting less money and less benefits). So I am very happy with my new job , I will start in 1 month because I don’t have my permission papers for working, so they will wait for me 1 whole month so I can receive my papers and have my social security number, driving license, car insurance, etc. One of the things of the process that I found really different was the drug test, they receive you in a small room and they ask you to pee in a little cup without washing your hands or flushing the toilet, that’s the only exam that they make as part of the pre employment requisite. In Mexico they examine everything for entering to a new job, blood test, radios, sight, audition, pee and poop test of course, that is considered illegal in the USA right? So after all this tests, phone calls, faxing information about my background etc, I think I am totally in this new company!! I have a great challenge ahead me, wish me luck !! I have to update my comment of my interview process. Well, finally after two panel interviews and one Mexican concert I got the job , I just signed all the papers, let me tell you that I was impressed by the economic proposal (for me “as a Mexican” it was way tooo good” I was expecting less money and less benefits).

So I am very happy with my new job , I will start in 1 month because I don’t have my permission papers for working, so they will wait for me 1 whole month so I can receive my papers and have my social security number, driving license, car insurance, etc.

One of the things of the process that I found really different was the drug test, they receive you in a small room and they ask you to pee in a little cup without washing your hands or flushing the toilet, that’s the only exam that they make as part of the pre employment requisite. In Mexico they examine everything for entering to a new job, blood test, radios, sight, audition, pee and poop test of course, that is considered illegal in the USA right?

So after all this tests, phone calls, faxing information about my background etc, I think I am totally in this new company!! I have a great challenge ahead me, wish me luck !!

]]> By: Ana Lopez Chauvet http://brucemctague.com/don%e2%80%99t-expect-reason-in-the-interview-process/comment-page-1#comment-305 Ana Lopez Chauvet Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:02:11 +0000 http://brucemctague.com/?p=763#comment-305 Hello!!, my name is Ana Lopez I am a Mexican that lives here in SF, I really like your post, I am in an interview process too, and I would like to share my experience, but before I would like to make a comment of what you wrote… I think there is a lot of logic of what you lived in your interviews, the small companies normally want to hire a person that has experience in some other things than the requirements of the position , because they don’ t have so many people working there and you would have to be able to manage some extra things at the same time, while the big company has there positions and their responsibilities quite specialized, so, you will just have to do what they are asking you to do and if they feel you know a little bit more they think you could be over qualifies for the position and you would like to jump very fast for the next level , so they don’t want that either… So, yes you are right you never know but if you think about it there’s always a reason behind weird things like that!! So about my experience, I really enjoy how Americans do their interview process, it’s totally different that in Mexico, here you have to arrive to you interview very well prepared knowing everything about the company, and their competitors, their brands, etc, if you don’t have idea of what they produce or advertise you are totally out of focus, you will loose any opportunity for looking bright during the interview!! I finished my third round of interviews with the same company, a very good company in the beer industry, and my third interview was a very good experience, they make a panel of tree directors for interviewing me, and thanks good I was well prepared because each one had his list of questions and situations already prepared for me!! Wish me luck I will make another comment if everything goes Ok with my process!! In brief, we don’t have to loose any hope, we just have to arrive the best prepared we can , and be ourselves, don’t sell yourself too high, just be yourself and be the smartest you can be.. Good luck to everyone that is in this same situation!! Hello!!, my name is Ana Lopez I am a Mexican that lives here in SF, I really like your post, I am in an interview process too, and I would like to share my experience, but before I would like to make a comment of what you wrote…

I think there is a lot of logic of what you lived in your interviews, the small companies normally want to hire a person that has experience in some other things than the requirements of the position , because they don’ t have so many people working there and you would have to be able to manage some extra things at the same time, while the big company has there positions and their responsibilities quite specialized, so, you will just have to do what they are asking you to do and if they feel you know a little bit more they think you could be over qualifies for the position and you would like to jump very fast for the next level , so they don’t want that either… So, yes you are right you never know but if you think about it there’s always a reason behind weird things like that!!

So about my experience, I really enjoy how Americans do their interview process, it’s totally different that in Mexico, here you have to arrive to you interview very well prepared knowing everything about the company, and their competitors, their brands, etc, if you don’t have idea of what they produce or advertise you are totally out of focus, you will loose any opportunity for looking bright during the interview!!

I finished my third round of interviews with the same company, a very good company in the beer industry, and my third interview was a very good experience, they make a panel of tree directors for interviewing me, and thanks good I was well prepared because each one had his list of questions and situations already prepared for me!! Wish me luck I will make another comment if everything goes Ok with my process!!

In brief, we don’t have to loose any hope, we just have to arrive the best prepared we can , and be ourselves, don’t sell yourself too high, just be yourself and be the smartest you can be.. Good luck to everyone that is in this same situation!!

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