[M.D. Holloway]

Now - getting back to the interview. Say you have done a fairly good job up to this point. You and the interveiwer have exchanged questions and answers. Now comes the close? Not yet grasshopper...now comes the sell!

The busy work is done now it is time for you to lay out the cards and take some control over the interview. This will provide you some additional info but also should show this guy that you are focused and driven and are here to get the job.

Forst off, hopefully you have taken good notes up till now. Hopefully they wrer on important things, not benefits or vacation. That is not neogotable and all compnaies are pretty much the same these days anyway so who the ***** cares. What you want to have taken notes on is the following basics:
1) What is the definition and scope of the job?
2) What are the performance requirements to do the job at peak levels?
3) What impcat does the job and your future projects have on the companies bottom line?

Now the sell - recap what you know uptill now but lay it out in a Problem/Solution format. This is what I mean. I will have to use a ficticious scenerio to convey my point.

"I certainly appriciate the chance to meet with you in person to day to discuss the opportunitiy at your company. As I undertand it, you have a need for an engineer to take on the challenge of developing a new transition magneto coupler to interface with the positron ignoblat that your partner company has developed. The challenge is to bring on board an engineer who has a through understanding of the mateiral, processes and application of interfacing such a unit and developing test and application protocols to see this through scale-up. The [roblemm as I see it is the challenge in finding such an engineer.

As you know, I have developed interface modules with the application potential for just such an application and my experience with linked abortaion induction will help speed the development cycle.

Sir, I feel strong about being part of this team and working for you on this project and future projects. I sure would like the opportunity to develop this product and help you grow this company. Have I been able to address all of your requirements to fill this post? Is there any areas that you feel I have not adequately addressed or that you feel there is a weakness?"

This is what I call the "gamble" becuase you are gambling that he will come back with a "no, everything looks great", then you close him. But, he could come back with "Well Mikester, your ability to develop modulated induction interfaces are without question fine examples of sound engineering but you do have a fundimental lack of borrated contpendium exporianus. That is something I will have to address."

"Sir, I hear what you are saying and I agree, on the surface my direction engineering experiance does lack borrated contpendium exporianus, yet I feel that my strengths in appleated jellybean indignation can more than addequately compensate and, not to mention my experience in develping a hugamawhatismas that brought my last compnaye a direct revinue stream of $4M at introduction and increases sales of 7% per quarter for 6 quarters had directborrated contpendium exporianus analogues."

"That being said, I relize yoiu have some choices to make. Sir, I want this opportunitiy and the chance to continue to prove and improve. When would the start date be?"

Kinda ballzy but if you were respectfull and confident going in and during then it's time to lift the skirt and get to the goods. If the guy gets turned off by you being aggresive to ask for the job using this slightly unconventional way, he is a puss and will be a puss manager not worth yur time nor energy.