How Not to Dress for a Job Fair
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 by Frank RocheDid you see this one of a guy at a job fair in a t-shirt that is VERY NSFW? (Words only, BTW.)
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HRagitator
Mar 12th, 2008
I once went to an engineering career fair at a well known southern university. A very nervous undergrad walked up to my booth and started asking me some questions. After answering them, I asked him what his major was.
This caught him completely off-guard! He stuttered and stammered and eventually said, “Um, oh, I can’t remember…what is my major? I don’t know, I just love to code, man. I just love to code.”
Needless to say, we didn’t hire him.
JT
Mar 12th, 2008
Where did you get the picture of Eliot Spitzer?
Frank Roche
Mar 12th, 2008
JT, OMG, I’m glad I Wasn’t drinking milk. It would have been coming out my nose.
HR agitator, you had him at “hello.” LOL.
HR Wench
Mar 12th, 2008
I would totally hire that guy.
Frank Roche
Mar 13th, 2008
HR Wench…you crack me up. You would, wouldn’t you? You like the moxie.
Pasmuz
Mar 13th, 2008
This job fair is in Romania and the guy’s shirt is in English. If you were at a job fair in the U.S.(& jeans/t-shirts were acceptable) and you saw the same guy with the same message but in Romanian, would you
1) be inclined to ask what it meant?
2) not know what it meant, not ask and think this guy is cool/hip/sophisticated for having a t-shirt with foriegn language?
HRagitator
Mar 13th, 2008
My experience from traveling internationally is that English curse words are very well know from movies, TV and music. Often, people will cuss in English in day to day circumstances with their native foul language being reserved for only serious issues.
I would guess that many people in Romania know the word f***.