How to get a job when your smarter than the person interviewing you?

[Nimue]

Originally Posted by campbell

This is very true.

You may want to think on that for a while.

Excellent advice! Unfortunately, he's not going to take it.

[Quasi]

Originally Posted by TZK

You wouldn't be able to clear it up because you don't know what the heck you are talking about.

The chances that you are a douche are much greater than the chance that someone who doesn't know the difference between your and you're is smarter than the person interviewing him. That clear it up?

[TZK]

Your argument has no connection to reality. As I said expect typos on the internet.

Probabilities are irrelevant when the argument has been presented in the thread. If you are avoiding the argument to consider probabilities, its a dead give away your full of it.

Originally Posted by Nimue

Excellent advice! Unfortunately, he's not going to take it.

As I said, I considered that and overcame it a long time ago.

[glassjaws]

TZK,

Let's face it. You don't work well with others. Find a job you can do by yourself, like hunter-gatherer. You win because you don't have stupider people than you bossing you around and we'd win since you'd be gone.

Deal, or no deal? :howiemandelsoulpatch:

Originally Posted by TZK

Average is not meant to be derogatory there.

Smarty-Smart still doesn't get it .. anyone want to jump in, or should I do it myself?

Originally Posted by Bob the Nob

Alright, which one of you has been stealing in order to avoid admitting you are wrong???

I'm never wrong .. can anyone guess why?

Originally Posted by TZK

For instance, attractiveness has been identified by some to be the averageness of the physical features of your face. This way you remind people of the most amount of good experiences they have had with others. But more directly what I meant was that you come across as "one of the guys". Simply being different is enough to cause people to reject you. This has been proven throughout history, and fundamental differences in how a person thinks are just as capable of causing this reaction as is the color of a person's skin.

You are making things far more complicated than they need to be .. in fact, I suspect that may be why interviewers are reacting negatively towards you. The work we do as actuaries is often difficult for others (who are eitehr outside the field or new to it) to grasp. The ability to summarize the general concept in a simple and concise manner is extremely important. And frankly you have yet to display your ability at being consice. If someone wants you to elaborate on a particular point or argument, they will ask for it.

Originally Posted by TZK

"Smarts" are good for dealing with real world problems and creating effective plans of action. The money that a person is paid is not given to them because their boss likes them. If that boss had a choice, he'd keep more of the money for himself. The money is given because you are supposed to provide a service as an employee. The money comes from the company providing a good or service to it's customers. To figure out the best way to do this, a company needs smarts above all else.

Yes .. but everyone in a company has different ideas on what is best for the company, as there is no single right answer. Your smarts are useless if you cannot bring people to (a) understand what you are saying, and (b) convince them that your way is the best way and appearing condescending will rarely get that goal acheived.

Originally Posted by TZK

I can't change the way I am, and the reason I can't change it is because it is the right way to be. People can see that my instincts are different by gaging my emotional reactions. My instincts are different because it has been proven to me that the way I think is correct.

You don't have to change who you are or what you believe. But you can control your reactions to things and people - behaviour can be changed.

[Bob the Nob]

Originally Posted by mexx

I'm never wrong .. can anyone guess why?

Because it's teh internets?

[kolya23]

Your "smarts" are not unique. Put yourself in the shoes of a hiring manager. You see a bunch of resumes of candidates with proper qualifications, all of whom appear roughly equivalent at handling the responsibility of "spreadsheet monkey". Of course they will hire the nice person who gets along with others.

Originally Posted by Bob the Nob

Because it's teh internets?

Do I just not post in Career often enough for people to know me???

Originally Posted by mexx

The bolded part certainly ain't true!!

[campbell]

It is no sin to be wrong or uncertain. There is such a thing as absolute truth, but it doesn't come up much in business situations. You rarely have full information, and you're rarely going to have complete answers. Sometimes you're going to have to go out on a limb and speculate, even before you've thought the whole thing through -- and it's okay to let people know that's what you're doing.

This reminds me of some math modeling competitions I had been in. The one I remember best involved data from a power company from service calls following a hurricane, and you were supposed to figure out a servicing algorithm in the best interests of the power company.

My team came up with a metric dealing with costs, time, and how annoyed the customers would get (as well as the importance of the location -- hospital vs. school vs. residence), and tried to minimize across these dimensions (also we used the given data to do a bootstrap method to check our algorithm against future disasters, as opposed to just optimizing for the one we were given -- many other teams solved the optimization problem "perfectly", which was perfect only for the given data and gave no rules for the future).

We came in the top 15.


A different team stated at the beginning: "The power company is a monopoly, so we're just going to minimize cost".

They came in the top 3.


A different team looked up information on power grids and said "The problem is insoluble, as one needs to know the network to be able to say the order servicing should be done in. Repairing one location before another could result in brownouts or even another blackout." And cited in various footnotes how undoable the problem was.

This third team was technically correct, but placed nowhere.

They forgot this was a math modeling competition, which always gave limited information, and you had to work with what you had. They were "correct", but had missed the point, which was dealing with an optimization problem in a competition setting.



/yoda

[Bob the Nob]

Originally Posted by mexx

Do I just not post in Career often enough for people to know me???

Okay, because you are female?