Recanting Your Story
Thursday November 15th 2007, 12:31 pm
Filed under: tips

spider.jpgFromĀ 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.



8 Comments so far

Inconceivable!

Comment by uuMomma 11.15.07 @ 1:43 pm

I told GhostGirl that “recant” was better than “decant.”

Comment by Ms. Theologian 11.15.07 @ 2:06 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!

Comment by mskitty 11.15.07 @ 2:18 pm

Dude, there is some power in the public diction shaming….

Comment by Ms. Theologian 11.15.07 @ 2:24 pm

I saw that too! I assumed they thought they were saying “recount,” so I’m amused that it got changed to “tell” instead.

Comment by This Girl Remembers 11.15.07 @ 2:59 pm

Ahahahahaha! I’m so glad it’s preserved for posterity!

Comment by GhostGirl 11.15.07 @ 3:01 pm

Yikes! This is why I always say - don’t trust your words to spell-check…

Comment by earthbound spirit 11.15.07 @ 6:32 pm

Earthbound - I think you hit the nail on the head!

Comment by h sofia 11.16.07 @ 2:06 am



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