Re: Interview Debacles (Fiascos, Problems & Mind Games)
I’ll start with a few stories as an applicant:
A few years back I was being interviewed for an instructor position at a community college. I step into the room with the interviewer and extend my arm to shake his hand… what’s next? I knock over his water pitcher all over him – yikes! :o
Luckily, the guy was cool – in more than one way I suppose… the rest of the interview went well and I got the job.
In my last job, I was called for an interview out of town and I was supposed to get there at 3:00 p.m. I left enough slack time to allow for any problems in getting to the place and would’ve gotten to the location around 2:00. At 1:00 p.m., I get a call on my cell phone asking me where I was and that the recruiting committee was waiting for me. 
Apparently, the assistant had emailed me “3:00 p.m.” and put in “1:00 p.m.” in her outlook meeting schedule. Needless to say, I was really anxious going into the interview at 2:00 p.m. even though the assistant admitted to her mistake. These were busy people and their schedules had already been disrupted.
Once again, I was lucky to have an understanding bunch of people… they realized that I had rushed to get in and asked me if I wanted a glass of water. I took 5 minutes to take a breath and a sip of water and went on to my audition presentation and the roundtable interview. Things went well and I got the job.