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Do you like the regular face-to-face interview? How about a Reality TV style interview? Interviewing by telekinesis? Let me know! So,Office Professional 2007, I have participated in some interesting recruiting events over the past few weeks, including the Second Life Interviews that Priya mentioned in an earlier blog. Those were great, and the virtual world was a cool place to interview. I also met quite a few characters there! So,Office Enterprise 2007, that got me thinking: what shape will interviews take over the next few years? What is it going to be like to interview in the future? Maybe someday, we will no longer phone screen candidates,Windows 7 Home Premium, or maybe face-to-face interviews will all be virtual. I would like to pose this question: what way would you like to be interviewed in the future? Here are some fun ideas I thought of, and would love to hear if you have better ones! 1. American Idol Style – All candidates will line-up at a specific location; You will be pre-screened by recruiters, and if you are qualified, then you sing (code) for the 3 judges (hiring managers). Then they discuss your "performance" in a group setting and decide if you will be hired. 2. Speed Dating Style - You will interview through a process similar to speed dating; You will meet with an executive for 3- 5 minutes, chat for a bit, then a bell rings and you go onto the next interviewer; Meeting about 20 interviewers in a session. 3. YouTube Style – Post a video of yourself answering questions and coding on YouTube; Pair it with funny music, and perhaps with a cat playing the piano, just to have it viewed more. 4. Survivor Style - We pick 20 candidates, send you off to a coding island for 36 days, and then slowly you vote each other off. You can vote off the strongest candidate, or the weakest, but it’s all up to you. The recruiter could host,Microsoft Office Standard, and coding competitions could secure immunity. 5. Apprentice Style - We hire 20 of you and give you tasks that are similar to the work of full time employees. At the end of each task,Microsoft Office 2007, you end up in a boardroom with Bill Gates, who is asking why the Project Manager didn’t lead the team to victory. Winner ends up with a job. What do you think?? (I personally such as the American Idol version best!) - Janelle