Malazan Empire: Maark Abbott - Viewing Profile - Malazan Empire

Well this look dope!

Also I hear tell it has a fully Comanche language track you can listen to it in with subtitles.

Maark Abbott, on 23 June 2022 - 07:40 AM, said:

I've gotten to second interviews 3x in the past year. I think I got better at playing off the cues people were given, but it's brutal to start afresh with an entirely new set of people and a different job each time out.

What's your impressions of how the first interviews are going? I found that trying to head off the "where do you see yourself in 5 years?" faff was super useful to me. I hate the question because I tend to be a "can't plan it until you know some of the landscape" person and a workplace culture beyond an interview is definitely a huge component I can't plan too intensely without.

So I started asking people "In two years, what do you want me to be doing for the company or agency? What skills should I be developing early on? What should I be building towards being able to handle?"

That got immediately better results for me. The first way seemed to be a litmus test of my ambition and ability to project out with very little to go on regarding work and/or to start sharing my private/family life, which I don't like that much in an interview. The second way seemed to be a way that let them talk about development, big picture, how prepared they are for actually bringing someone on board etc. That seemed to give me more substantial things to work with.

I did botch one second interview by continually referring to my practical experience in investigations rather than taking a cue from the people interviewing me about how they are looking for a lawyer to go through the investigative paperwork and backfill or mildly supervise the actual investigators. I got caught up on the "connect back to lived experience" rather than meet them where they wanted to be.

If you want, we can go backstage and talk out interviews. I'm not an expert, yet my partner actually interviews people much more often for hiring and has coached me up quite a bit to help me suss out what the talking heads want.

Oh, I agree that the US stuff is a lot more scary and bonkers. But I think it is a bit disingenious for Brits to start chucking rocks with the current Tory wackjobs in charge. It seems to be a global phenomenon that populist and arch conservative rhetoric is winning ground rapidly. Older voters are trying to turn back time and they still carry more weight at the ballot box, because they pay/bribe and they vote more loyally.