I'm probably done with "interviews." But for the past few decades, my interviews have been coronations probably more for me to decide if I wanted the job than if the interviewers wanted me.
I'm a technical guy.
My advice to anyone like myself is to do whatever you can to avoid HR types like the plague. All they understand is buzzwords and bullsh*t. If you take pride in your resume, and print it nicely formatted on quality paper, make sure you bring copies to give to whomever you speak with. The HR folks will have xeroxed it on cheap paper for everyone else; and if an agency submitted your resume they probably will have re-written it in a manner you would barely recognize.
Long ago, I showed up for an interview and the receptionist handed me a job application. I told her I didn't do applications and she nearly passed out. I told the HR guy that I would be happy to answer any questions they had if they thought they wanted me to work for them, and that they could change their minds if there were something in the list of schools and addresses that disturbed them. The HR guy just passed me on to the guy I was going to work for, and whom I did go to work for.
When I showed up the first day, there was a different girl at the receptionist's post. My first receptionist was inside and she saw me, and said to another girl, "That's the one who wouldn't fill out the application!"
ML/NJ
“do whatever you can to avoid HR types like the plague. All they understand is buzzwords and bullsh*t.”
Amen! I worked in HR for several years, and all you say is true. It was traumatic for a conservative to be in a cesspool of political correctness. “buzzwords and bullsh!t”, you say? For weekly staff meetings I’d take a newly printed copy of “Wonk Word Bingo”, and cross out the buzzwords (or phrases) the first time I heard each one: best practice; end of the day; own/ownership; revisit; the loop - in/out of; big picture; eye eee (i.e.); paradigm; same page; embrace; empower; take-away
There are more; you get the picture.
HR IS EVIL.