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APRIL 28, 2021

This post, interview with an employee at an employee assistance program (EAP) , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. We are not health insurance. Jerks self-select out pretty fast if they’re not caught at the interview stage. Here’s our conversation. It’s useful to consider what we aren’t.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 22 years of managing comprehensive behavioral healthcare (as I will describe in Chapter 4) my company never authorized the popular 28-day inpatient substance abuse programs for all of our self-insured large employer clients. The threat of random toxicology screening helped to keep these employees “clean” and on the job.

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Ruby

AUGUST 26, 2020

Business Unusual: Hiring & Team Cohesion Diving deeper into staff augmentation, outsourcing, and working with freelancers, Ruby’s Director of Strategic Communications, Katie Hurst, continues her interview with Damien Filiatrault, Founder and CEO of Scalable Path. You want to clean people’s teeth or do fillings.

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MAY 10, 2022

But I have this itch to do a pass on the job description — a professional edit that would clean up some typos, tighten some clunky and repetitive sentences, and highlight an inconsistency to ask for clarification. Instead, stand out by being a highly qualified candidate and giving a great interview.

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JULY 21, 2022

I recently had an interview with a company about a position that I was excited about. I was just getting over being sick when I scheduled the interview, so I pushed it back a couple days just to be safe. On the day of the interview, I still had an intermittent cough, but overall I felt fine. Overall I felt fine. The wet socks.

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JUNE 21, 2022

Was this interviewer as bad as I think? I had an interview just this morning and am a bit confused. I’m a recent college graduate so I don’t have much interview experience. I’ve done a few on zoom, but this morning was my first in-person interview ever. She sat down and started the interview. Yes, definitely.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

One potentially clean way to do it would be for you not to be a partner in the business, but instead to provide your services as a contractor. Offering to take an interviewer on a tour of my current company. I have had an interview with several SVP’s at a new company two weeks ago, but nothing seems to be moving forward.

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APRIL 22, 2020

My husband’s company is in the processing of signing with a new health insurance carrier. The owner of his company called him to discuss my health conditions (I am on his insurance). They left a message, and it was for an interview! My husband’s company is trying to find out whose spouse has cancer.

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JULY 14, 2020

The acne medicine I use now costs $10 with insurance. Interviewers who ask about salary history when it’s illegal. Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped interviewers from pushing further. One particularly tough interviewer refused to proceed with the interview until I provided an answer! Do I come clean?

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MARCH 12, 2021

My boss spent most of his time dodging important emails or finding ways to be out of the office, leaving the team to clean up his messes—this resulted in multiple all-nighters from mid- and junior-level staff to get projects done on time. I went through 4-5 interviews over three months. Recently, I interviewed for a semester position.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The equipment was re-entered in the inventory, and it’s likely that everyone will continue to believe that these items were mislaid a few years ago and just turned up again during a thorough cleaning of a supply closet. Dealing with the ego blow of not being interviewed after doing great work for an organization.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

Before we found out about Janet quitting, Carl had also been looking for jobs and interviewing and ended up getting an amazing offer by the end of December. One of the most frustrating things is that I have been left to clean up Janet’s mess, which was a lot bigger and has more implications than I realized.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

That said, I don’t know why Sarah objects to people using her French press to begin with, although maybe she’s had problems with people not cleaning it after they use it or something like that.). I applied for a job at a prestigious university and completed my second interview last week. My ex-coworker has bad judgment on Facebook.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

Last month I finally had a successful phone interview with one of this company’s internal recruiters, who agreed I have strong qualifications for either a customer service role or the job I would love to have and for which I believe I am well qualified, information editor. And I waited. And I waited. For a week.

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APRIL 13, 2017

I recently went through a second interview — a panel interview — for a job I’m really interested in, and am waiting to hear back. When I asked when they would know their decision, they made it sound like they would decide after this round of interviews was over. Is this normal? I feel like I dug myself in a hole here.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I already had health issues, but in Hawaii I had great friends, mostly clean air except when the volcano blew over, plenty of things to do outside, and a job that I liked pretty well although it wasn’t glamorous. Interviewers video-taped my job interview. Now I’m in a freezing, polluted desert. Is this legal?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2019

At the time, I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my career and I needed the insurance and a higher wage, so I accepted the offer despite my knowing it was ultimately going to be a bad situation. In my exit interview, my supervisor (an incredibly kind, high EQ person) asked what was going on.

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JULY 2, 2017

(She was busy dealing with insurance/clean-up issues.) Or is this more of an answer to an interview question like “How did you manage a difficult situation?”. Unfortunately the school ended up closing for good, but I worked really hard to make sure that there wasn’t a huge interruption for the kids.

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APRIL 4, 2016

I’d really like a clean break. Navigating interviews in a wheelchair. I think time and practice will help me get better at it, but what do I do for job interviews now? By the way, I don’t qualify for an electric wheelchair through insurance and they are too expensive for me to buy right now. Can’t do it.

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MARCH 30, 2022

His very first day he was helping clean up brush along the edge of a mountain biking course. New hire insisted on naming himself as the beneficiary on his life insurance policy “in case I’m around when it pays out.”. Manager hired someone from a conference without conducting any interviews. We had a guy apply for a staff job.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Interviewer had a photo of my house. I went on an interview last week and I think the manager I met with had a print-out with a picture of my house in his interview folder. Health insurance discounts for non-smokers. The ACA lets insurance companies charge smokers a tobacco surcharge of up to 50 percent more.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

His Get Attitude podcast won a Communicator Award for Diversity & Inclusion for his 8:46 Interviews Stories of Black America. As a keynote speaker, she has shared the stage with many influencers, including a recent interview with Venus Williams. Most have no beds, books, toys or furniture to call their own. Candy Valentino.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Since that had kept me from getting interviews or job offers in the past, I dumbed down some of the titles, experience, and accomplishments on my resume before I sent it in. Do I come clean? So don’t think of this as “coming clean,” which implies you did something wrong that you need to confess. How do I handle this?

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