Don't forget to ask them questions that show you're interested in the position. I've always had successful interviews by demonstrating a real curiosity about how the workplace environment and challenges of the position.

Wear a suit.

just don't fart

Importantly, wear pants.

Gee I don't know, obi...

Why don't you start a thread to determine the Mount Rushmore of job interview strategies?

maple, don't give him ideas. This is the first normal thread the boy's started.

So yeah, I see an upward trend :P

Thank you, all VERY important ideas (hadn't thought of wearing pants, but a good call...)

And don't worry, mapleleaf--there'll ALWAYS be a place for Rushmores on the site, because I know you enjoy those threads even more than those concerning God, religion, philosophy, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, why I don't like Lady Gaga, or any of those other fun ones...

be prepared for my own favourite questions along tne lines of: why should I employ you; what do you think you will bring to this company; .... answer them straight and honest without too much overselling - of course that is an English view - perhaps Americans like oversell.... (sorry - couldn't resist)

Don't be a smart arse. You know I think you're a prick, but I don't want you to miss out on a job opportunity, so don't display the characteristics that may ruffle your potential employer's feathers.

Prepare to discuss your 'strengths and weaknesses'. Have a good weakness answer prepared.

Go smartly dressed, smile, make sure you come across enthusiastic and polite! Most of all don't panic! Good luck!

Thanks Maniac, I'll take that as a compliment...

Well, leaving now, thanks all!

"Have a good weakness answer prepared."

This is good advice. They may not ask this at B&N, but it's a very hard question to ask, so you should always have one prepared.

Oh and make sure that if you don't get it you sue them for anti-Semitism.

It might work.

haha you'll get it obi these things are usually less then intense. all my job interviews have been relatively... sanguine affairs. but i've never had a "real" job.

"So, why do you want to work for <company>"
Apparently it's amazing how many people go into an interview, get asked this question and yet don't have a confident answer!

Also, tell them you hate the Kindle.

Always have a few questions for them. General questions about the position that weren't asnwered yet, the company as a whole, what the interviewer likes about working at the company, these are al good questions.

Don't discuss salary. If they ask, say it's negotiable. Discussing it does one of three things: makes you look to high priced if you try for what they think is two much, makes you look to under-skilled if you ask for way to little, and gives them the upper hand in what they offer, possibly selling yourself short if you do get the offer.

Most importantly, pay attention. Be alert, sit upright but don't lean forward and don't fidget with your hands. Remember, you are evaluating them as much as they are you. Take the opportunity to see if it really is the position you want at the company you want.

*"all", not "al" and "too" much, not "two" much

hmm i think we've got it covered. i usually give the advice of "dont fuck it up" but that seems to sort of been covered. So i would say leave most things you would say in a diplomacy game at home, dont be bringing any alliance or NAP talk into an interview.

be confident, but not as confident as MM going into a WTA game against first time diplomacy players. i dont know if he's done that though

"be prepared for my own favourite questions along tne lines of: why should I employ you; what do you think you will bring to this company; .... answer them straight and honest without too much overselling - of course that is an English view"

...but not too much underselling either. An acquaintance of mine at university went for a job interview and in response to the question about why he wanted to work at that particular employer, responded (in a broad Yorkshire accent) "Well I'm here, aren't I?"!

Hope it went well, obi.

Remember the guy asking you questions was once sitting in your seat.

Ok, that doesn't make much sense unless you take into account that he probably hasn't learned a whole buncha shit since he signed the contract.
Anyway, all the best Yoda . . . oh, sorry, did I get that wrong.

Honesty with a large hint of creativity and imagination

So I'm gonna give you a recap of what I've seen as the best advice on this page, and then add a couple of my own. (I got a job at the first place I interviewed so I figure I did something right)

1) Pants. Very important.
2) Be ready to answer all the sterotypical questions (I thought there was no way they'd ask why I should be hired, but damn it all, they did)
3) Ask questions, but be careful not to sound like that guy in lecture who questions the professor to get brownie points for paying attention. Ass-kissing rarely gets you anywhere.
4) Voice an extreme, almost visceral hatred of Amazon in general, and the Kindle in particular.
5) Again, emphasis on pants. Double-check before leaving home.

My points
1) When asked about your weaknesses try looking hesitant to talk about them. Then bust out with "Well sometimes I'm just too damn awesome."
2) Man-flirt. Hard. Unless the interviewer's a woman, then try not to stare at her tits.
3) Just be yourself... Oh, wait... Ummm, be a more mature, less ADD version of yourself... Oh, wait... laws of physics and all... nevermind point three. You're a theatre guy, make it happen.

Hope it was of some help without being too offensive.

Have a card that says that you play diplomacy. Denfinetly got the job!!!

Listen.

Just try to sit and listen most of the time. Respond in a concise manner. I've noticed you have a tendency to talk/write too much and overelaborate. Don't try to impress them so much.

"2) Man-flirt. Hard. Unless the interviewer's a woman, then try not to stare at her tits."

LAWLS

bounce their asses.