From Use Cleverness with Caution in the Interview, read the excerpted paragraphs below, focusing on the second paragraph beginning with “Here is where you can recant your story”:
Joe Turner, who wrote “Job Secrets Unlocked!” and runs jobchangesecrets.com, suggests that you prepare your best “story” to answer the question by showing how you will go the “extra mile.”
“Here is where you recant that story of exactly how you worked 60-hour weeks, acquired new skills, or whatever it took to distinguish yourself and meet the challenge head-on to successfully make the sale, save the project, rescue a client, or whatever it was,” he says.
This word you use, I do not think it means what you think it means.
November 15th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Inconceivable!
November 15th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
I told GhostGirl that “recant” was better than “decant.”
November 15th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Apparently you or someone else got to the writer, because when I clicked the link just now, the word recant had been changed to “tell”. Ah, the power of the pew!
November 15th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Dude, there is some power in the public diction shaming….
November 15th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I saw that too! I assumed they thought they were saying “recount,” so I’m amused that it got changed to “tell” instead.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Ahahahahaha! I’m so glad it’s preserved for posterity!
November 15th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Yikes! This is why I always say - don’t trust your words to spell-check…
November 16th, 2007 at 2:06 am
Earthbound - I think you hit the nail on the head!