Fake Interview
Disclaimer: I did not aim to gain employment from this experience. This story is also best told in person.
It was our last day in Xi'an when my friend and I (this was back in October) noticed that a job interview was taking place in the room right across from ours, and that the door was wide open. We thought it was a job for the hotel in which we were staying (a 4-5 star joint), so we shook it off and went down to the business center to take care of some things. But not before my friend remarked, "Wouldn't it be great if you put on a suit and just walked into the room when the next interview finished, equipped with your resume ?" The thought was intriguing and I paused for a second to think it over. Then came the clincher. My buddy said, "I'll give you 100 RMB to do it." Deal sealed.
My buddy and I had already made friends with the cute employee at the hotel's business center the previous day. As we were running some errands, she printed out a sign and asked us what we thought of it, saying that she had to place it on the 6th floor of the hotel (the floor on which we were staying) as a company was doing campus recruiting that day. Let's call the company, a Fortune 500 giant, "Company X". We probed her further, asking if Company X had booked a lot of rooms on the 6th floor and if her hotel was interviewing that day. She laughed and said that her hotel was not interviewing. It was then that we told her what I was going to do. She was amused and disbelieving at first, and then she turned really serious when she saw that I would go through with it.
In no less than ten minutes, I was dressed up in my suit with resume in hand and went back down to the business center.
It was our last day in Xi'an when my friend and I (this was back in October) noticed that a job interview was taking place in the room right across from ours, and that the door was wide open. We thought it was a job for the hotel in which we were staying (a 4-5 star joint), so we shook it off and went down to the business center to take care of some things. But not before my friend remarked, "Wouldn't it be great if you put on a suit and just walked into the room when the next interview finished, equipped with your resume ?" The thought was intriguing and I paused for a second to think it over. Then came the clincher. My buddy said, "I'll give you 100 RMB to do it." Deal sealed.
My buddy and I had already made friends with the cute employee at the hotel's business center the previous day. As we were running some errands, she printed out a sign and asked us what we thought of it, saying that she had to place it on the 6th floor of the hotel (the floor on which we were staying) as a company was doing campus recruiting that day. Let's call the company, a Fortune 500 giant, "Company X". We probed her further, asking if Company X had booked a lot of rooms on the 6th floor and if her hotel was interviewing that day. She laughed and said that her hotel was not interviewing. It was then that we told her what I was going to do. She was amused and disbelieving at first, and then she turned really serious when she saw that I would go through with it.
In no less than ten minutes, I was dressed up in my suit with resume in hand and went back down to the business center.
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