record_id: 2b2f8b3e-f83d-819b-9c76-f764da9d0009
created_time: 2025-11-21T23:35:00.000Z
title: 11-21 Recruitment Process: Job Application and Interview Strategy
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Speaker 1 00:17:29
Thank you.
Speaker 2 00:19:10
Did you ever talk to a DJ, Pseudokyle. 
Speaker 3 00:19:13
Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:19:13
Oh, you did already. 
Speaker 3 00:19:14
He told me his home. Did you- and you called him? Yeah, that was the recruiter that said, hey, you really need the background, you know, they're here to help you, but I need Ben's background. Why. 
Speaker 2 00:19:29
He has another one. Um... Because he never replied, but you called him home.
Speaker 3 00:19:35
He did reply. Or maybe he sent me an email. I think that's what it was. You made me send me- send him an email.
Speaker 2 00:19:41
I didn't say his name. Wait, can I see it. 
Speaker 3 00:19:44
Well, here, see this first. Oh, I saw her.
Speaker 2 00:19:52
Thanks for your time. I wanted to be like, okay, weird cat lady, I almost replied for you, but I didn't. It's just like- I know, what do I say? It's like- anything that i want to say to her is like parenting somebody else's kid you know i just.
Speaker 3 00:20:12
it was just like part of me is like why do you send that you know like you feel bad i think she's introverted and weird it wasn't like she very much say what you want i'm just gonna you know you know what i mean like that when you get that like mexican woman kind of thing that's like if it's like very like it's in my do you think you're still here you know just like um i recorded.
Speaker 3 00:20:55
it i can let you hear it you know but part of me is just like you're making a mistake you know.
Speaker 2 00:21:04
I mean, if you want to address it and give it some more thought and put it in writing and be like, look, my conviction to write this doesn't come from a place of fighting for something that, or seeing like a square peg in a hole. You know, at this point, I don't even know how, you know, like, I'm not begging for this job, kind of like the tone, but like, I don't think we, like, I have a feeling that this was over even before it began because it seems as though what I heard, what I heard you saying is, like,
Speaker 2 00:21:54
this equals this when, which is something that I don't have. When I do have that, because I have this, this, and this, and this. But one thing I'll never have is years of experience as an operator, you know, or a, you know, a fleet mechanic, which is what your current guy has.
Speaker 2 00:22:30
Maybe your company should invest in management skills because he's the right guy for you guys.
Speaker 3 00:22:42
Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:22:43
I don't know. Anyways, you know, like something that's like positive and be like, it really sounds like you guys, if you can't find a good fit, like sound like our interview was over before I started because in your mind, I didn't fit a perfect box of this. When I, when I do feel like I had experience. In most of the relative areas, anything that I was lacking could easily be learned.
Speaker 2 00:23:14
But if it was a non-starter and you're looking for that qualification, the safest bet to do is to invest into the employees that you have. And then give them the guy Omar's number. Be like, this guy is a consultative manager. Who's Omar? The guy that I've been talking to. He's like a consultant on lean operations and management styles.
Speaker 2 00:23:47
And say, maybe you hire this guy to come along, your guy, and train him to be the manager you want him to be.
Speaker 3 00:23:53
It's a great way to find a lean six-segment black belt that's overseas technician.
Speaker 2 00:24:03
You know what I mean? The same way they got some random, that's just like, it's like you have to decide if you're comfortable with hiring people from outside the company. It's like, you know, I, like, so Michael Macias, right, from CSI that you met, the gay guy, who was like friends with Angela, who left, right, he, he retired from, or he stepped down from his position. Like, he's in human resources, you know, why was he involved on sales and networking on the architectural side, you know, because you have these companies that are, like, all hands on deck, we're like a family, but really it's like a carte blanche, like, you know, I think that there's something to be said about, like, a grittiness of, like, you know, we're all doing it, we're all just kind of taking, you know, take, we're all working hard, working out of our garage, making something, a go at it.
Speaker 2 00:25:01
But at a certain point when you're, when your company gets to be so big. you know and you've outgrown everybody doing everything you know like you can't expect the human resources manager to be calling on architectural to be doing this you know like and for that person to have that experience you know so the.
Speaker 3 00:25:28
same thing with them she's only been there a year now though right yeah and.
Speaker 2 00:25:35
if you look at her history she doesn't have any history in warehousing right so it's.
Speaker 3 00:25:41
like yeah so it almost seems like honestly it seems like boy you know the.
Speaker 2 00:25:50
CEO there's somebody there who's hiring their friends you know there's somebody there who's hiring their friends of friends you know.
Speaker 3 00:26:01
so dj so you did reach out to dj yeah we had a conversation it was the same day i talked two.
Speaker 2 00:26:06
weeks two weeks ago was he a nice guy like go to your go to your um messages um yeah you like.
Speaker 3 00:26:17
halfway sent him a message and then you made me follow up just look up dj then made me follow up.
Speaker 2 00:26:24
via email we set up something to talk see i didn't do that wrong though see that's not him that's why it's like guy this is familiar but not so that's why i wanted to double check well some people.
Speaker 3 00:26:45
have like two more than one um because i applied to another one that he's offering.
Speaker 2 00:26:57
where it's like a super basic. Oh, the Gardena roll. So it's still Gardena. Oh, he reposted it again. So this is stupid. That makes me mad. Okay, I'm going to delete what I was going to write.
Speaker 2 00:27:28
Because it was reposted, and it's not posted with any information about how it needs to be airspaced. It's like you have 70 people reporting it here. You messed up my screens, by the way.
Speaker 3 00:27:54
Who. 
Speaker 2 00:27:55
You messed up my screens. I plugged it in. I just don't know how to get it back to where it was. Hold on one second. Don't go anywhere. I know. Today is a waste of a day. It's okay. see i just applied to this one but look at the job description one what's opposite let's scroll.
Speaker 1 00:28:27
go the other way oh yeah the other one didn't have any so it's like is this the same job it's got to.
Speaker 2 00:28:46
be right look at it here experience of leading 100 plus people hands-on knowledge of manufacturing and processing analytical organization process improvement higher level of minimum work flexible hours like it doesn't say anything about it being aerospace yeah so maybe i just write and say is this that same aerospace company.
Speaker 2 00:29:17
What? Everything.
Speaker 4 00:30:31
This might be the funniest thing in the world.
Speaker 5 00:30:39
My jeans tell me I'm a woman. They tell me I'm a woman. No, me jeans die. I'm not a star. Style news for me, Dana. Tell me about my accomplishment. I'm sure you label this color.
Speaker 5 00:31:16
Don't.
Speaker 6 00:31:17
They come in women's? Are you sitting all the way back? Are you bending comfortably at the edge? Does your seat... Can you stay like that the whole trip. 
Speaker 7 00:33:16
surveillance video shows someone breaking into this truck and stealing it but it's how they pulled it off that has time hills top anaheim technology to steal high-end car they stole a truck with help from a tablet for locks you see him walk up to the car first he knows he.
Speaker 8 00:33:40
actually checks the handle first so then he heads over to the back window he's a window punch once, it happens there's tint on the windows so it stays intact peel it off and climb it and then he's being handed a tool a computer that plugs in car quickly reprogramming and the other way.
Speaker 7 00:34:06
people stealing cars and the use while standing in the doorway being newer cars, Entry key fobs.
Speaker 9 00:34:17
Key fob is caught near the house. Key fob is inside your house. Once they pick up, they send it to... One is in a different place in the house. Some people like to hang their key in the house until they pick up the...
Speaker 7 00:34:57
Surveillance video.
Speaker 10 00:35:03
You got it, you got it.
Speaker 11 00:35:29
it's hard to believe that this custom design and throughout the way to make this thing.
Speaker 12 00:36:12
so smooth you almost think it's a real once it's in the air it flies great but the real challenge back into hover but he did this and it functions. or are interested in learning more about everything, so definitely head over and check it out. It's hard to believe that this custom design printed swivel mouse makes this R35 take off and a hover like the real jet,
Speaker 12 00:37:07
but the best part, it transitions. You've got the telemetry on. After checking out that model, it's in different language, but Eric really dumbs this down for us in a video. Before I tell you where you can watch that, let me just say, 70mm gives this plenty.
Speaker 3 00:37:55
yeah yeah what for okay yeah let me just you need a helmet too kiddo helmet too.
Speaker 1 00:41:25
hold on hold on don't force it right then i just need to get this thing in the back of my truck.
Speaker 3 00:42:12
i don't have the keys you have to put in the coat seven one zero.
Speaker 1 00:42:26
85. Did it go. 
Speaker 3 00:42:32
Try it again. No. Seven. So it's just one button kiddo. Okay. So seven, ten, 85.
Speaker 1 00:44:24
Why didn't you give my thing a little bit of oil? Do you think they definitely need to be pumped up?
Speaker 1 00:44:55
Come on, let's take off one of these.
Speaker 3 00:44:58
What are you talking about? Oh, no, it broke off.
Speaker 1 00:45:01
It did help. Pfft. 
Speaker 3 00:45:53
the lever and then pull it out. Where are you guys going? Now we're just about to expound. Yeah there's cars that come around the corner that aren't paying attention for little things. 
Speaker 5 00:46:09
okay? They should probably wash down the back next time. Sometimes you get dirty.
Speaker 1 00:46:37
Thank you.
Speaker 3 00:48:32
what happened to the other kettle i just pulled it oh.
Speaker 1 00:53:47
I was fine until I saw her.
Speaker 2 00:54:48
And I almost had to cut it right just so you can be like, well, I said it worse than I would have ever said.
Speaker 3 00:54:54
No, I honestly, I just, the only thoughts that go through my head is like, this is a mistake. You're making a mistake, you know. 
Speaker 1 00:57:06
See ya.
Speaker 3 00:58:25
Yeah. Can I what? Sure.
Speaker 2 00:58:48
Has four quarter systems? No. I'm not going to include it. Have you ever heard of OSHA? Yes. EPA? Yes. Yeah. Iowa? Yes. IHL? I'm from Iowa.
Speaker 1 00:59:10
Okay. I'm going to take maintenance.
Speaker 3 00:59:30
I do think every time we change my resume for a different industry, we should save it.
Speaker 2 00:59:38
I'm saving it under Word, but not under, like, when I transition it over to PDF, I only give it a number versus facilities, because I don't want it to be saved as the word facilities and show up as download a facilities fund.
Speaker 3 01:00:03
No, I know. Yeah. No, I'm just saying that we, you know, this is our facilities fund.
Speaker 2 01:00:11
Right. I have a logistics fund, and we're creating a facilities fund.
Speaker 1 01:04:25
Thank you.
Speaker 3 01:08:35
You know Matty's outside riding his bike, right? Yeah, it's fine by me. I'm not here, so... He's got his helmet. I bumped up his tire.
Speaker 13 01:10:10
and suddenly a pit opens in my stomach as i realize what's what he doesn't know where rock is, but he knows something else he knows what i've done this is a trap i cannot wait away from i guess there are those times in life it's like staring at the ground as you fall from a height, seeing the end coming doesn't mean you can dodge it stop it we ride for 20 more minutes, it was he doesn't know where rock is but he knows something else dancing flowers sucking sounds come from the mud chapter 33 apologies cassius waiting in the middle of the night several bad work he said do you mess come no they can't move we get away from the castle under the light of.
Speaker 13 01:10:46
twin moons an early winter snow fills the air with dancing flowers sucking sounds come from the mud as we head north toward the north matter no sounds but the curving of the water from the wind of the trees wiping sleep from my eyes i look over the castle he has our two iron swords and suddenly opens his stomach as i realize what's what he doesn't know where he knows something else he knows what i've done this is a trap i cannot wait, I guess there are those times in life. It's like staring at the ground as you fall from a height. Seeing the end coming doesn't mean you can dodge. Fix it. Stop it. We ride for 24 minutes. It was no surprise.
Speaker 13 01:11:17
What's that? I've known for over a year that tubing was meant to die. The snow falls silently as we move together through the mud. The hot water smooths between my legs. Step by step, through the mud. He made a mess of his chair. He was in the right, not in the way they were. Though he was kind, and bright with emotions, he could sense sadness or anger and click away. But empathy is a low-color thing. I say no. There are feuds that do not change, though. Cats and dogs. Ice and fire. Augustus and Paloma. My family and the Arch-Governor's. Cassius' eyes are fixed ahead, even as his horse stumbles and his breath makes fog in the air.
Speaker 13 01:11:48
But despite what portended, Julian was excited when he received the acceptance letter stamped with the Arch-Governor's personal seal. Didn't seem right to me, or my other brothers. Never thought Julian would be the sort to make it in. I loved him. All my brothers and cousins did. But you met him. Oh, you met him. He wasn't the keenest of minds, but he wasn't the dullest. He wouldn't have been the bottom 1%. No need to kill him from the snot. but he had the name Malona, a name which our enemy loathes. And so our enemy used bureaucracy, used his title, his duly appointed powers, to murder a kind boy. To turn down an invitation to the Institute is an illegal act. He was so delighted, and we, my mother and father and.
Speaker 13 01:12:19
brothers and sisters and cousins and loved ones, were so hopeful for him. He trained so hard. His voice takes a mocking tone. But in the end, Julian was fed to the wolves. Or should I say, wolf. He pulls his horse to a halt, eyes burning into him. How did you find out? I asked. Staring ahead over the dark water. Flakes of snow disappear into the black surface. The mountains are but shadowed mountains in the distance. The river gurgles. I did not listen. Let you give Augustus his dirty work. He latched, spawned me. I trusted you, Darrow. So I did not need to see what the jackal sent me. But when Severo tried to steal it from me, as I slept in the great woods, I knew something was the matter. He notices my reaction.
Speaker 13 01:12:53
What? You thought you consulted with Dunlands? Sometimes. Yes. Well, I watched it tonight. A hollow. With Roque and Zia, I'd forgotten about the package. Better that I had. Better that I trusted him, and not sent several to steal it. Maybe he would have discarded it, then. Maybe things would be different. What's what? I ask. A hollow. That shows you killed Julian. Maratha. The jackal got a hollow. I snort. His proctor gave it to him, then. Guess that means the game is rigged. Suppose it doesn't matter to you that the jackal is the arch-governor's son, and that he's manipulating you into getting rid of me. He flinches. Didn't know the jackal was his son, eh?
Speaker 13 01:13:24
I reckon you'd recognize him if you saw him, and that's why he sent Lilith. I wouldn't recognize him. I've never met the bastards before. He kept them hidden from us before the Institute. My family kept me from him after. Dirt. His voice fades, and his eyes sink into a distant memory. We can beat him together, Cassius. We needn't be divided. Because you killed my brother, you spit. There is no we, you feckless quim. Get off your gory damn horse. I dismantle, and Cassius throws me one of the iron swords. I stand facing my friend in the mud. No one to watch but the crows, and the moons, and the proctors. My sleep leg is on the side. It, at least, has a curve.
Speaker 13 01:13:55
But it's useless against a nine-blade. Cassius is going to kill me. I didn't have a choice. I know. I hope you know that. "'You will rot in hell, you manipulative son of a bitch!' he cries. "'You allowed me to call you brother! "'So what would you have had me do? "'Should I have let Julian kill me in the passage? "'Would you?' "'That's racism. "'It's how you kill them!' "'He's quiet for a moment. "'Me come as princes, "'and this school is supposed to teach us to become beasts. "'But you came a beast!' "'I laugh bitterly. "'And what were you when you ripped apart Titus?' "'I was not like you!' Cassius shouts.
Speaker 13 01:14:25
"'I let you kill him, Cassius, "'so the house wouldn't remember that it doesn't poise "'to get a good long kiss on your face. "'So don't treat me as though I'm some monster!' "'You are!' he sneers. "'Oh, shut up, goddamn God, "'and let's just cut to it, hypocrite!' "'The Jew is not gone. "'I have been practicing it for months. "'He has laid up jewels to try life. "'The blades echo across the moving room. "'Snow falls. "'Mud sticks and sluts. "'We pan.'
Speaker 13 01:15:17
It's great. It seems like a pressure, a fullness of metal in my stomach. It becomes an aching horror. I shut up for breaths. Don't. Can't. Breathe. It's like a black hole in my gut. I fall back, moaning. There is pain. That is one thing. This is different. It is terror and fear. My body knows this is how life ends. Then the sword is gone. And the misery begins. Cassius leaves me bleeding and sniveling in the mud. Everything that I am goes away. And I am a slave to my body. I cry. i become a child again i curl around the wound oh god it is horrible i don't understand the pain.
Speaker 13 01:15:49
it consumes me i'm no man i'm a child let me die faster i sink in the cold cold blood. betrays me the metal went through my guts my blood goes out with it go dancing my father's sacrificing he was three i can hardly think of them the mud is dark and cold this so much i miss her when is home what was her second gift i never found out her sister never told me now i know pain nothing is worthless let me see you let me see you let me die just not this part four.
Speaker 13 01:16:32
the elder women of laico say that when a man is bitten by a good fight all the poison must be drawn out of the vital but the poison is wicked when i was there i left something.
Speaker 13 01:17:23
Chapter 34, Tenderly strokes my brow. I love her. Something inside me bleeds. I hear Eo speak to herself. To someone. I haven't long. Am I time at all? Am I in the veil? There is mist. There is sky and a great tree. Fire. Smoke. I shiver and...
Speaker 3 01:17:52
Hello. For, uh, Eric and Maddie. Uh, Eric and Ben.
Speaker 11 01:17:55
Got it. Thank you.
Speaker 13 01:18:01
Shiver and sweat. Rot in hell, Cassius. I was your friend. I might have killed your brother, but I had no choice. You did. You arrogant slag. I hate him. I hate Augustus. I see them hanging EO together. They mock me. They laugh at me. I hate Antonia. I hate Fitchner. I hate Tritus. I hate. I am burning and mad and sweating. I hate the Jackal. The Proctors. I hate. I hate myself. For all I've done. All I've done. For what? To win a game. To win a game for someone who will never know about anything I do. EO is dead. It isn't as if she will ever be coming back to see all I have done for her. Dead.
Speaker 13 01:18:31
Then I wake. The pain is there in my gut. It goes through me. But I no longer sweat. The fever is gone and the angry red lines of infection have faded. I'm in a cave's mouth. There's a small fire and a sleeping girl just inches away. Furs cover her. She breathes softly the smoky air. Her hair is tousled and gold. She isn't Eo. Mustang. I cry silently. I want Eo. Why can't I have her? Why can't I will her back to life? I want Eo. I don't want this girl beside me. It aches worse than the wound. I can never fix what happened to Eo. I couldn't even run my army. I couldn't win.
Speaker 13 01:19:01
I couldn't beat Cassius. Not to mention the Jekyll. I was the best helldiver. I'm nothing here. The world is too big and cold. I am too small. The world has forgotten Eo. It has already forgotten her sacrifice. There's nothing left. When I wake, Mustang sits by the fire. She knows I'm awake but lets me pretend otherwise. I lie there with my eyes closed, listening to her hum. It's a song I know. It's a song I hear in my dreams. The echo of my love's death. The song sung by the one they call Persephone. Hummed by an arlet. An echo of Eo's dream.
Speaker 13 01:19:34
I weep. If ever I felt there was a god, it is now, as I listen to the mournful chorus. My wife is dead, but something of hers lingers still. I speak to Mustang the next morning. Where did you hear that song? I ask her without sitting up. From the H.C., she says, rushing. A little girl sang. It's soothing. It's sad. Most things are. It has been four weeks, Mustang tells me. Cassius is primus. Winter has come. Ceres is no longer under siege. Jupiter's soldiers sometimes come into the woods. There are sounds of battle between the two superpowers of the north, Jupiter, and Mars.
Speaker 13 01:20:06
Jupiter to the west, Mars to the east. Since the river froze, they've been able to cross and raid one another. Our buzzards have risen out of their winter gulches. Hungry wolves howl at night. Crows flock from the south. But Mustang really knows very little, and I grow impatient with her. Keeping you breathing was a little distracting, she reminds me. Her standard lies underneath a blanket near my feet. She's the last of House Minerva, yet unbridled. And she didn't enslave me. Slaves are stupid, she says. And you're already a gimp. Why make you stupid, too? It is days before I'm able to walk. I wonder where those nifty medbots are now, tending someone the Proctor's like, no doubt.
Speaker 13 01:20:39
I won, Primus, and they never gave it to me. Now I know why the Jackal will win. They are getting rid of his competition. Mustang stalks with me through the woods during the next weeks. I move stiffly through the thick snow, but my strength is returning. She credits medicine she found lying conspicuously under a bush. A friendly Proctor placed it there. We pause when we spot the deer. I draw the bow, but I can't get the string to my ear. My wound aches. Mustang watches me. I try again. Pain, deep inside. I let the arrow fly. I miss. We eat leftover rabbit that night. It tastes funny. It gives me cramps. I always have cramps now.
Speaker 13 01:21:09
It's the water, too. We have nothing to boil it in. No iodine. Just snow and a little creek to drink from. Sometimes we can't have fire. You should have killed Cassius, or sent him away. Mustang tells me. Would have thought you know more than that. I say, I like to win. Family trade. And sometimes cheating is in the rulebook. She smiled. You get a merit bar every time you eat capture your standard. So, I arranged for it to be passed down to Diana by someone else, several times.

[AI_SUMMARY]
The recruitment process involved contacting a recruiter about a job requiring aerospace experience, but discrepancies arose when the job was reposted without specific aerospace requirements. Interview feedback indicated a mismatch in qualifications, prompting a proposed rebuttal strategy to clarify relevant experience and suggest training current employees. Additionally, different resume versions were created for specific industries, and various unrelated topics, including modern vehicle theft technology and a fantasy audiobook, were discussed.