So out of 5 phone interview candidates, I was chosen to complete an "unpaid" work placement for the final three months of my masters degree. A couple of weeks later a meeting was arranged. I was told by the college internship manager that this would be a simple meet and greet.
It was the break between two semesters, so I was also stopping off at the company on my travels back home. For this reason it inconvenient to dress better. I also arrived 10 minutes late as the place was difficult to find. One of the two who had interviewed me on the phone came out to greet me. She then gave me a tour of the place and introduced me to some of the staff.
Just before I was about to leave it came up in conversation how I had just started a three week break before I began my next next semester. She said with a smile "oh you're probably out partying every night so?". She was quite young so it was like as if she was saying "oh I've been there". For the sake of making conversation I said "yeah" even though I most certainly was not. In a way I think I viewed it as a chance to say "oh yeah I'm a normal kid who has a social life", which I perhaps don't so much. And even if it was an innocent question, I should have been secure enough to answer the truth.
It wasn't until two weeks later that I realised how manipulative this question was, when I got a phone call of the college internship manager. She told me that they said that "I seemed like I had been out the night before and didn't seem that interested".
It was the break between two semesters, so I was also stopping off at the company on my travels back home. For this reason it inconvenient to dress better. I also arrived 10 minutes late as the place was difficult to find. One of the two who had interviewed me on the phone came out to greet me. She then gave me a tour of the place and introduced me to some of the staff.
Just before I was about to leave it came up in conversation how I had just started a three week break before I began my next next semester. She said with a smile "oh you're probably out partying every night so?". She was quite young so it was like as if she was saying "oh I've been there". For the sake of making conversation I said "yeah" even though I most certainly was not. In a way I think I viewed it as a chance to say "oh yeah I'm a normal kid who has a social life", which I perhaps don't so much. And even if it was an innocent question, I should have been secure enough to answer the truth.
It wasn't until two weeks later that I realised how manipulative this question was, when I got a phone call of the college internship manager. She told me that they said that "I seemed like I had been out the night before and didn't seem that interested".
