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The coffee machine. A fancy machine out in the open in a clear welcoming area suggests the company wants the employees to feel good while working.

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Based on my experiences interviewing people, most people get these wrong.

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Because you put up a sign saying you needed people with exactly my experiences and credentials in this position. If you don’t want me I will take down your sign because it’s wrong.

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Consider how many bells and whistles you truly need.

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I’d like to find a new lover, but I believe you can’t go looking for love. At least in my life, it’s always developed naturally out of friendship. I don’t need to try promiscuity, which can be deadly these days, what with AIDS running rampant.

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Don’t attempt to “wing it” or “improvise” or “pull rabbits out of your hat.”

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We drank a liter of Tab and became nostalgic. At one point Ronna said to me something like, “But you don’t have any scars,” and I said, “Only –” and I stopped and then we both laughed because she knew what I was going to say and I knew that she knew and she knew that I knew that she knew.

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Everyone knows what you should do in a job interview. Dress professionally, show up ahead of schedule, talk about how interested you are in their corporate sustainability initiatives. Those go without saying. But what about the things you should not do?