atw: Re: CV and interview advice

Are you sure they weren't just saying "you seem to be a balanced sort of person and that's not what we're after". Several years ago I was getting sick of being required to work 70 hours a week as an employee with no bonus or the like.
I applied for a job elsewhere, and the recruiters said they thought I wouldn't be able to meet their hours demands. I certainly didn't want to work anywhere where they expected more than 70 hours a week!! A couple of months later, the company went broke. [I assumed they had based their decision on the fact that I owned a shop (managed by an employee) and thought the shop would distract me too much, but they didn't ask me.] 


Peter Martin wrote:
.. and speaking of which, I think never a truer word was spoken than when I recently had a knock-back on the grounds that it was felt "that the cultural fit was not quite right." (Well actually, I think my cultural fit with some of the developers was ok.... I'd worked ok with them at another workplace for about 4-5 years and they remain personal friends.) 






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