Hot take: a hiring manager at a Phoenix job fair asked what I do when nobody is watching, and that one line saved me from a bad offer | Career Advice - Chatter Central
Hot take: a hiring manager at a Phoenix job fair asked what I do when nobody is watching, and that one line saved me from a bad offer
She asked it in a hotel ballroom after a 40 minute wait, and it hit harder than any pay question, so now I want to hear what you would have answered right there.
I got asked something like that at a trade show booth once, and I just told her the truth, that when no one is looking I read manuals for stuff I don't even own yet. Sounds weird but it's real. She laughed and then we spent 20 minutes talking about how I taught myself to fix my mom's washing machine from a YouTube video at 2am. That chat told me way more about the place than the job description ever did.