Good Morning! I've been very busy these past few weeks, but since I was doing interviews to hire my replacement, we thought we'd do a JD based on people's experiences with interviews. Conducting them and suffering them. And for what it's worth, I'll add my 2 cents.

Regarding my recent experience conducting interviews all I can say is that it was very tiring, boring and disappointing. People were mostly unprepared, uninformed and unexperienced. All this comes from a very positive person. I always look for the best in people, but these people were making it very hard.

The first guy spent over 80% of the interview grabbing his cheek... GRABBING HIS CHEEK for goodness sake! I don't mean with his  hand holding his jaw or anything like that, you get my drift. He was acting all cool and detatched too, he did not give off a good impression.

Another girl kept interrupting my boss ALL THE TIME. Very annoying, people should refrain from doing that...

Another guy was unable to link two words without using the ehhhhhhhhhhhhh interjection. His interview probably took double the time that others took on sheer time wasted just saying ehhhhhhhh.

Next girl had such a high pitched, squeaky, screechy voice that I feared for my safety in the proximity of windows. You can't be a lawyer if your voice is unbearable. Period. There is nothing you can do about it except get voice training, which might help. Or not.

One girl was asked to come in at 9 and she went: "pppffff that is pretty early... but.... ok.... if there is no other available time". Talk about enthusiasm!

None of them except one girl (which I subsequently hired) had any idea of how to answer the legal questions I asked. Most of them looked like they hadn't even heard that those things existed in the first place. They were very standard, easy questions, things that you don't forget once you've touched them in class.

Most af all I'm disappointed at how unispiring it all was. I was hoping to interview interesting, well prepared people, and they were none of those things.

I hope you have better, funnier stories to tell than mine, and that you'll want to share them :)

On a side note, Real Madrid bball's section plays Utah Jazz (yes Mort THE Utah Jazz) in Madrid tonight, as part of the NBA Europe tour)

As TiH has pointed out, we have all had previous lives, and know that none of us were peasants.

So what where you in previous lives? A queen, a pirate, a dragon slayer?

 If I believed in reincarnation I would say that I've been a duchess, a nun and a courtesan. I was also Fanny Mendelssohn and Maria Callas. All of these lifes have clearly influenced my current personality.

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Now is your time to come clean or (hopefully) completely ignore this topic and bring up great topics of your own!

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