Reply With QuoteYou know it was, people employ people to whom they can relate. He congratulates himself on having bought a CSAR and in you he sees someone who shares his good (as perceived by himself) taste.Originally Posted by colin
Eddie
...and decided to wear my GSAR as since I bought some other watches it's been neglected for a month or two.
Well what do you know, the guy who interviewed me noticed it and complimented me on my 'nice and uncommon choice'. Turns out he owns a CSAR but was yesterday wearing a pretty nice-looking Omega Dynamic (wouldn't mind one of those myself).
I got the job... I wonder if it was due in part to my trusty GSAR :P
You know it was, people employ people to whom they can relate. He congratulates himself on having bought a CSAR and in you he sees someone who shares his good (as perceived by himself) taste.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
It can't have hurt :)
Congratulations. A stroke of luck there :)
I would not wear such a watch to a job interview, for fear of people seeing a huge watch and just thinking me a right berk. I'd pick something rather subdued and simple. Then again, most people don't even notice watches.
Congratulations. He clearly recognised you as a man of taste and distinction (as he shares your taste!) due to your choice of watch. :lol:
Good one.
Nice choice of watch too.
Good thing, it was not the other way around; that you wore the CSAR and the other guy had just bought a GSAR :lol:
Count your blessings
Congratulations, you got lucky.
My last interview in January was a 5 hour affair with various managers, in turn, coming into the interview room to see me. Between the numerous waits I filled out the Telegraph crossword but kept it hidden under numerous other documents I had with me. Finally my future director came in, spotted the paper and we spent the next 15 minutes talking about Telegraph crosswords, his paper and crossword of choice; I got the job.
Both interview stories are the sort of thing that, if seen on TV, you'd put down to poetic licence. These things are very uplifting for me. Well done on the new job :thumbleft:
Congratulations on the new job - the watch clearly made him feel you were the right sort of chap :)
Gray
Always a winner, like the masons but watches :lol:
Yes, congratualtions.
I don't think the GSAR is a huge watch. It was in 2002, but not 2011.
41.1mm (without crown) x 13.9mm. Lug-Lug: 46.5mm
First, congratulations.
Second, just feel lucky the the guy interviewing you wasn't wearing a $25 quartz and felt anyone that spent money on mechanical watches, especially those priced over $150, was stupid and had fallen for the Swiss advertising machine.....
True, but many of those people probably wouldn't be able to tell if the GSAR is a $150 watch or not :wink:
Congratulations on the new job!
Did he mention the frogman suit at all?
Unless the watch is particularly imposing, I don't think anyone notices them apart from other watch aficionados. I never once noticed what people, even close friends and family, were wearing until I recently developed an interest in watches. Now I'm always glancing at other people's wrists! :)
I recently resigned and (at 60) just to get an interview would be a result! :shock:
Mike
I don't know, some of those people are around here. :?True, but many of those people probably wouldn't be able to tell if the GSAR is a $150 watch or not :wink:
Explains why I've always had cr*p jobs, me and my Timex :roll:
Congrats!
+1!!!Unless the watch is particularly imposing, I don't think anyone notices them apart from other watch aficionados. I never once noticed what people, even close friends and family, were wearing until I recently developed an interest in watches. Now I'm always glancing at other people's wrists! :)
Did you wear in on the Marathon bracelet?
I had a Timex when they were still made in Dundee and Westclox made clocks. It kept good time. Someone nicked it. :( :x
It would seem a bit small now though. A £30 Citizen quartz seemed to do the job well 20 years ago. I wore that to interviews and it didn't seem to do any harm.
It's the only strap/bracelet I ever wear it on :)
It's funny isn't it? When I got a Seiko sport 200 kinetic around 1995, a colleague said: "Is that a Rolex? You flash git!". :shock: Well obviously it wasn't but that didn't stop him and one of his pals from getting kinetics (at discount -jammy), as they fancied them as something that might pass for A Rolex for goodness sake. :lol: Oh dear. :lol:
Anothertime we had a visit from someone wearing a Brietling. Nobody else recognised it. The bloke acted suprised that I'd noticed the bloody big gold wings on the watch face...
Oh well...
Were you interviewing for a job as a frogman?
Well done, the established view is that most interviews are decided from non-verbal things like common interests and your appearance/demeanour.
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