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Originally Posted by katchum

3) Some huge mistakes like: coming an hour too early

What.

Seriously, that's a stupid reason to not get hired no matter what industry it is.

I usually make it a point to be exactly on time whereever I go (I'll even go so far as to wait around the corner, haha), but the expression is "to be on time is to be too late" for a reason.

Anyway, as a freelancer I get to go apply to a lot of jobs, and not all work out, sometimes you just never hear back, sometimes you're in the race with 60 others, and sometimes work comes to you.

It's a kinda crazy life.

My biggest problems with interviews are always the phone interviews because I find it very hard to talk on the phone, always have. Being in the Netherlands and since there are almost no jobs in my field here, I have had to get used to phone interviews, but I haven't really quite "gotten it" yet. There were jobs that I was practically overqualified for but I blew it on the phone interview. Well, more and more interviews seem to go via MSN these days which is a boon to me, but phone interviews are still really awkward for me.

When I'm out of work, I usually just try to work on one of my many "private" projects, or catch up on gaming. Sometimes I have so much work that I'll be working 14 hours a day and still barely make the deadline, and then other months I'll have absolutely zilch to do.

As far as formal interviews go, I really recommend going to lots of them. Think of it as interview-training. It doesn't really cost you anything to go to them, and the more you do, the better you get at them. They all ask the same questions anyway.

Jam it back in, in the dark.