Join a toastmasters club. I'm serious.
I joined one this year, and have found it very useful to work on the sort of "social ineptitudes" common to geeks. The club I go to, Woolston toasmasters club, meets on Monday evenings, but there's about 20 or more around Christchurch if the time/venue don't suit. Check out www.toastmasters.org.nz for more details. Perhaps if we get some geeks along to a toastmasters club we can have more (and better quality) presentations at CLUG meetings. Cheers, Carl. On 15/09/05, Gareth Faull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had hundreds of interviews this year, so I've become quite the > expert at getting to the top of the list (just don't ask me how to have > a successful interview). > > The most important thing is not the CV, it's the covering letter (often > the contents of the email, with the Word/PDF CV attached). Some people > don't even look at your CV! > > The art of the covering letter is to make your skills and experience > match what was asked for in the advertisement. Perfectly. Don't lie, > just be positive! I think my problem is that I'm great at making myself > look wonderful on paper, then my social ineptitudes make me fail at the > interview stage (I become shy and reserved and curl up into my shell). > Perhaps I should drink more caffeine before interviews? > > Gareth. >
