Interviewing

So I have been conducting interviews for a tech support position that we are hiring for at my work, and I've learned a lot of things. 

Here are some tips for success for anyone going to an interview:

1. If your interview is at 10:00am, please don't show up at 9:40am. I'm expecting you at 10, so you will wait awkwardly for 20 minutes. It doesn't impress me that you're so early, if I wanted you to be there at 9:40 I would have scheduled the interview for 9:40. 

2. Don't you dare give me a 2-3 page resume. Google "how to write a good resume" and "resume formatting" and then we'll talk. These 2 or 3 page resumes with huge gaps and no formatting at all? It's ridiculous. 1 page people.

3. Elaborate. This is a job interview, when I ask you "How are you with multi-tasking?" you had better not answer me with "Great." and then sit there silently.

4. This actually happened: I told a interviewee how we strive to give excellent customer service and we consider it one of our key strengths and we're typically very flexible with working with customers to keep them as customers. I then gave him a scenario where a customer calls in upset about a product because it was incompatible, and he essentially told me that he would tell the customer "tough luck" and it was "too bad, they should have read the site better". And that was IT. His entire answer. You're kidding right?

5. Don't talk over me. It's rude in casual conversation with people, it's just bizarre to do it in an interview.

6. Dress up. I literally don't care what job you're interviewing for, dress nice. "Church dress" if you will.

Sorry for the snarky-ness, but it needed to be said...

:)