phải biết người phỏng vấn thuộc kiểu nào,
càng cuối tuần phỏng vấn càng mệt -> nên đi đầu tuần,
chỉ nhớ/ấn tượng (với) những thông tin gần nhất/mới nhất -> nên đi cuối tuần
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Dear Dan,
I am applying for a CFO role (vị trí giám đốc tài chính) at a public company (công ty đại chúng). I am competing for the job with several other candidates, and the interviews with the board of directors (hội đồng quản trị) will take place over the course of a week. Should I try to schedule my interview early in the week, late in the week or somewhere in the middle?
—Eric
There are two countervailing (bù đắp) forces here. One is the exhaustion (kiệt sức) of the people interviewing you, which will likely increase over the course of the week. When people get tired, they’re more likely to make negative (tiêu cực) decisions (quyết định). There’s a disturbing (làm lo âu, làm xáo trộn/nhiễu loạn) study on judges’ decisions to grant parole (sự phóng thích tù nhân sau khi người đó cam kết giữ tư cách đạo đức tốt), showing that they are twice as likely to accept a prisoner’s application when they decide in the morning than at the end of the day. From that perspective, it’s better for your interview to take place on Monday.
On the other hand, the “recency effect” says that people are more likely to remember the most recent information. If the board is making its decision after the last interview, it would be to your advantage to be later in the week, so that you’ll still be prominent in their memories. The question is which force is going to be stronger. If you think the process is going to be exhausting for the people interviewing you, go early in the week; if not, try to go late.
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