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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve Conan Trustrum" data-source="post: 423276" data-attributes="member: 1620">When first coming out of university, a headhunter contacted me about a job available in another department for the company I currently work for. I showed up, did the interview, was over qualified to the point where the department's GM said "let me tell you this, I think you're perfect for the job. You have experience with field management, you're references all said you were great to work with, you self-taught yourself the software we use..." etc, etc. ..."I'd like to hire you on the spot but, to keep MY bosses happy, I have to go through the next few candidates. Still, I'm going to go ahead and set up a second meeting with our CEO for tomorrow."So, I'm thinking "great, just out of school and I've already got a second interview with a CEO from one of Canada's largest market research firms!" I go to the meeting, do the deed, all the while the person who did my first interview is telling the CEO how great she thinks I am. And then it happens. The CEO looks at the resume in front of him and says "What's this? You have listed here that you have done freelance writing in the role-playing industry. You also have role-playing listed amongst your hobbies. What is 'role-playing'?" I explain to him, we finish the interview. I go home.I get a call the next day saying I don't get the job but that another department with the same company is looking for someone to run their call centre and that they'd like me to go in for an interview that very day. So, three interviews in three days with the same company but all with different people. I go in, find out that the job doesn't require my software experience, doesn't involve a call centre like I've previously had experience running, etc, etc. In other words, I'm not as qualified for this job but I sense some desperation on the part of the person doing the interview. At the end of the interview she tells me I'm hired and start the next day.Skip down a few months and I run into the GM from the other department who did my very first interview with the company. She tells me she's happy I'm doing well and that she was sorry about me not getting the job and that she'd made quite a fuss over me not getting hired as I was by far the favored candidate -- it seems the guy who got the job wasn't even half as qualified as I. She then tells me how the CEO boiled down his reason for not hiring me. And I quote: "I don't think we want some guy playing make-believe at his age and who writes comic books filling this position."Comic books? WTF? So, yes, I've actually missed out on a job because I listed rpgs amongst my job experience and hobbies, even if the guy who passed me over didn't have the brain power to figure out what an rpg was after I'd explained it to him. As a side note, this CEO and I have since butted heads on a number of occassions, especially after he called my entire staff a bunch of "zit faced losers", because most call centres are staffed by teenagers looking for flexible hours.</blockquote>

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