LinkedIn: How the Interviewee is Now the Interviewer

Jim Halpert: I’m just saying that you can’t be sure you’re not the culprit.
Dwight Schrute:That’s ridiculous; I would know if I was the culprit.
Jim Halpert: Marijuana is a memory loss drug, so maybe you just don’t remember.
Dwight Schrute: I would remember.
Jim Halpert: [pretending to be serious] Now, how could you if it just erased your memory?
Dwight Schrute: That’s not how it works!
Jim Halpert: Now, how do you know how it works?
Dwight Schrute: Knock it off! Okay, I’m interviewing you.
Jim Halpert: No! That’s not what you said, you said that *I* would be conducting the interview when I walked in here! Now, exactly how much pot did you smoke?

While this isn’t a typical office conversation, we’d expect nothing less from Jim Halpert’s and Dwight Schrute’s from NBC’s, “The Office“.  How could we forget the scene where Jim held up the picture of marijuana and began interviewing Dwight instead of being the one interviewed.  Brilliant.

We laugh at the scene (not just because Jim’s so hilarious) but because it’s not an everyday occurance we see in the workplace.  Typically, the interviewee  doesn’t become the interviewer.

But the Internet has made business anything BUT typical.  Job networking sites such as LinkedIn, have turned the tables by allowing prospective employees to, in a way, interview a company before getting hired.  Employees can scope out their potential boss’s profile, check out the company’s website, and find a ton of information they otherwise wouldn’t have access to before social networking sites.

Before considering a job, put yourself in your boss’s position and do a little research of your own.  Save yourself some time and find out if you’d be a good match for the company based on their company or LinkedIn profiles before you apply for a job.  Just remember that regardless of where you work, drug tests are pretty standard procedures when drugs are found on copmany property; you may have to provide a urine sample…