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February 9, 2007
Sharp minded editors
Today started with an early morning editors' meeting in Reigate - a gathering of the sharpest editorial minds in Trinity Mirror Southern.
I am now back in Uxbridge and preparing to catch up on some paperwork and approve a bulging basket of invoices to ensure that all our contributors are paid on time.
The other main task of the day is to prepare for several interviews we have lined up for next week as we look for a new reporter to replace Tom Parnell, who recently moved to the South London Press.
You will know from my previous blogs that the person we appointed to replace Tom did a last minute U-turn and let us down so I am hoping for better luck this time.
No matter how impressive a person's CV might look you never know until you actually interview them whether they are the kind of person you really want to join your news team.
Past experience has taught me that you can either be pleasantly surprised or bitterly disappointed when it comes to interviewing for new recruits.
Ian Carter, my colleague at the Croydon Advertiser and one of the sharp minded editors' I was with earlier, has an interesting theory that if somebody emails their application under the name 'sparklepops@h*****l.com' they probably won't be his kind of person.
However, none of the people I will be interviewing next week have such fancy email addresses so I can't put his theory to the test this time ...
Posted by aseal at February 9, 2007 1:04 PM
Comments...
Adrian,
I can back up your 'email' theory 100 per cent. I interviewed someone today with the email address sweetheart72xxx@xxx.com. She was distinctly average and not the dynamic, ambitious kind of person we need.
Andrew.
Comment posted by: Andrew at February 21, 2007 9:07 AM