Bill James Quotes

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

I am really bad at actually interviewing people.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

I think what's universal is the idea of auditioning. It's something that you do in every kind of job market. You audition every time you go on a date, you audition at a job interview, and it's always about trying to put the best version of yourself forward and seeing what sticks and what doesn't.

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking.

You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.

I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

I picked up an issue of Cosmopolitan the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, 'I need to get better at interviews.' The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, 'I do that every day.'

I think the long interview has an important life.

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.

I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative and entertaining. I've never been concerned about someone's liking me tomorrow.

There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.

You never get every job you want.

You're not going to get every part, so you can't base your sense of self-worth around whether or not you actually land the job.

If you get too excited about any one interview, you're making a mistake, because people do cancel.

There's all kinds of ways to be misunderstood, and one of them is via the interview.

When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.

Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview.

I think interviews are good when you are an actual fan of the person you are interviewing.

I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.