I am never scheduling a morning interview ever again

[Kev]

Originally posted by: PokerGuy

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: PokerGuy
Wait... you're applying for a job where (presumably) you'll have to work in the mornings... but you can't function well enough in the morning to do well on the interview?? Geeezz.

Please, most don't do work in the mornings. I don't recall ever doing any serious work before 10-ish at any of my jobs.

<taps sarcasm meter>
Hmmm..... hope my meter is just out of batteries

Interviewers should schedule interviews at 7AM or something, that way you can tell if the candidate really wants the job or not. If they come in looking like they have a hard time being awake at that hour, move on to the next person.

I wake up at 5AM each day and I'm at work by 7AM. 9AM is "early"?

I'll bet you also don't go to bed between 1-2am. So yes, 9am is early for some people

 

[PokerGuy]

Originally posted by: Kev
I'll bet you also don't go to bed between 1-2am. So yes, 9am is early for some people

.... and you would lose that bet. Unfortunately I have to go to bed waaaay to late most of the time

I'm not saying everyone should be an early riser, everyone has their own preference.... but in reference to the OP, if a candidate can't even focus and do a good job in an interview at 9AM, how can you possibly have confidence in that candidate to do a good job working in the mornings?

 

[skim milk]

Originally posted by: PokerGuy

Originally posted by: Kev
I'll bet you also don't go to bed between 1-2am. So yes, 9am is early for some people

.... and you would lose that bet. Unfortunately I have to go to bed waaaay to late most of the time

I'm not saying everyone should be an early riser, everyone has their own preference.... but in reference to the OP, if a candidate can't even focus and do a good job in an interview at 9AM, how can you possibly have confidence in that candidate to do a good job working in the mornings?

I interned this past summer and got up at 6:20 AM every morning without fail. I never missed a day and was always on time by 8 AM. :roll:

 

[Gibson486]

That is a very poor excuse.....

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: PokerGuy
Wait... you're applying for a job where (presumably) you'll have to work in the mornings... but you can't function well enough in the morning to do well on the interview?? Geeezz.

The interview is harder than most jobs.

Not everyone is a morning person. If you're going to penalize people who aren't altogether there in the mornings, you should also penalize people who are "all tired out" and nodding off by the end of the day.

Just like Benjamin Franklin used to say,
"early to bed, early to rise...your girl goes out with other guys."

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Kev

Originally posted by: PokerGuy

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: PokerGuy
Wait... you're applying for a job where (presumably) you'll have to work in the mornings... but you can't function well enough in the morning to do well on the interview?? Geeezz.

Please, most don't do work in the mornings. I don't recall ever doing any serious work before 10-ish at any of my jobs.

<taps sarcasm meter>
Hmmm..... hope my meter is just out of batteries

Interviewers should schedule interviews at 7AM or something, that way you can tell if the candidate really wants the job or not. If they come in looking like they have a hard time being awake at that hour, move on to the next person.

I wake up at 5AM each day and I'm at work by 7AM. 9AM is "early"?

I'll bet you also don't go to bed between 1-2am. So yes, 9am is early for some people

You have the choice to go to bed sooner. Nice try.

 

[BradT]

Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Yea, morning interviews suck. I hate the nervousness and rushed feeling of making it there on time. I like afternoon interviews.

Speaking of which, I have an interview this afternoon at 4:30pm.

How'd it go?

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: Kev

Originally posted by: PokerGuy

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: PokerGuy
Wait... you're applying for a job where (presumably) you'll have to work in the mornings... but you can't function well enough in the morning to do well on the interview?? Geeezz.

Please, most don't do work in the mornings. I don't recall ever doing any serious work before 10-ish at any of my jobs.

<taps sarcasm meter>
Hmmm..... hope my meter is just out of batteries

Interviewers should schedule interviews at 7AM or something, that way you can tell if the candidate really wants the job or not. If they come in looking like they have a hard time being awake at that hour, move on to the next person.

I wake up at 5AM each day and I'm at work by 7AM. 9AM is "early"?

I'll bet you also don't go to bed between 1-2am. So yes, 9am is early for some people

You have the choice to go to bed sooner. Nice try.

Eh, not always. Some people have to combine grad school with a 8-10 hour work day and can't get more than a few hours sleep. Of course, one could take this further and say that you have a choice to reduce activities, and so on, and so on...

Man, my post really has no importance, but I'm going to hit this button anyway...

 

[imported_Imp]

Ya, I never will either. Same thing happened to me last year. I wasn't really dressed for it, had a miscommunication on the floor/location and ended up answering/asking stupidly. Moreso than my usual level of crappiness.

 

[Maximilian]

Im used to going to bed at 2-3am and waking up at 1-2pm, its a good life.

Enjoy those early starts guys, HAHAHA.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: Steve
If you're among the last interviewed, you're freshest in the interviewer's mind.

So schedule it at the end of the day and show up late?

Sweet.

 

[skim milk]

Originally posted by: Imp
Ya, I never will either. Same thing happened to me last year. I wasn't really dressed for it, had a miscommunication on the floor/location and ended up answering/asking stupidly. Moreso than my usual level of crappiness.

exactly my experience today

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: PokerGuy

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: PokerGuy
Wait... you're applying for a job where (presumably) you'll have to work in the mornings... but you can't function well enough in the morning to do well on the interview?? Geeezz.

Please, most don't do work in the mornings. I don't recall ever doing any serious work before 10-ish at any of my jobs.

<taps sarcasm meter>
Hmmm..... hope my meter is just out of batteries

Interviewers should schedule interviews at 7AM or something, that way you can tell if the candidate really wants the job or not. If they come in looking like they have a hard time being awake at that hour, move on to the next person.

I wake up at 5AM each day and I'm at work by 7AM. 9AM is "early"?

I can vouch that a LOT of IT folk don't get anything meaningful done before 9-10.

PS - Yes, 9AM is early.

Really depends on the IT folk...I am not sure what kind of IT you are in, but there is always work in IT when users show up for the day...I guess meaningful is a key word, but meaningful usually only happens once in a while in the IT field in between all the BS that gets thrown.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

I usually try to make my interviews be at around 10-10:30, waking up at 8:30-9. That allows me enough time to get ready and be awake but not so much time I can be nervous thinking about it.

 

[Tweak155]

This past job I got was way worse.

I lived in Detroit and now work in MO so the interview was out here. I don't remember what time the interview was but I had to be up at 4am to catch the flight. Couldn't fall asleep til 3am. Couldn't fall asleep on the plane, it was like 40 mins to Chicago then another plane to MO. I got taxied to the interview and couldn't sleep. I basically slept 1 hr, looked like crap the whole day, and found out less than a week later I got the job "hands down" (there were at least 2 others, but I don't know the exact number, I'm assuming more).

So yeah, quit whining. I didn't get home til midnight after the flight home.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: GeneValgene
i always recommend interviewing first, or before other candidates. you interview first, and then other people have to steal the job from you - it's better than trying to win the job from other people

I'm not aware of ever having interviewed for a job the same day as another candidate.

thats the sign of a good admin. when im hiring, i could go thru 15 or so interviews throughout the day, and none will ever see each other. i prefer afternoon interviews, but ill do morning ones if i have to. end of the day is closer to when that interview team puts their thoughts on paper, and being fresh in their minds accounts for a lot.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Kev

Originally posted by: PokerGuy

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: PokerGuy
Wait... you're applying for a job where (presumably) you'll have to work in the mornings... but you can't function well enough in the morning to do well on the interview?? Geeezz.

Please, most don't do work in the mornings. I don't recall ever doing any serious work before 10-ish at any of my jobs.

<taps sarcasm meter>
Hmmm..... hope my meter is just out of batteries

Interviewers should schedule interviews at 7AM or something, that way you can tell if the candidate really wants the job or not. If they come in looking like they have a hard time being awake at that hour, move on to the next person.

I wake up at 5AM each day and I'm at work by 7AM. 9AM is "early"?

I'll bet you also don't go to bed between 1-2am. So yes, 9am is early for some people

i stay up till midnite or midnite-thirty every night, wake up at 530am. get kids up and to school by 730 then to work at 8. it isnt a difficult thing, you just have to wanna do it. that time between 930 and midnite is the only "me" time i get as a single parent.