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...thing is, not all people are cut out for their three minutes of online-video fame. A Vault.com post features a blue-shirted manager with a knee jiggle and a boring spiel. A job-seeking techie on YouTube admits charmingly that he has no experience editing videos--and then packs his with gimmicky cutaways. One software engineer scores his with gangsta rap. And did I just fast-forward through that video on HireVue because of the guy's bad teeth...
You’ve seen the recruitment brochures, you recognize the scene—a mix of black students and white students chatting happily across a table, all smiles, sharing ideas and experiences—really learning from each other. And so the spiel goes: “One of Harvard’s greatest strengths is its diversity.” Diversity of political leanings, race, interests, life experiences—you name it, we’ve got it. But for the most part, all the pretty pieces of our colorful puzzle keep more or less to themselves...
Once called, a stage manager leads actors upstairs, walking backward, tour guide-style, and punctuating her spiel by deep gasps for breath. There is a quick sizing up as a director distributes parts, then the groups of two or three head down the hallways, past headless tailor dummies and tables covered with pairs of black shoes from former shows...
...TIME: We knew you'd say that. But tell us why. LEE: I met this small man when he came to Singapore in November 1978. This small four-foot-eleven man, but a giant of a leader. He gave me a long spiel?the Russian bear, Vietnam was his Cuba in the Far East, danger for you. I had provided him with a Ming vase spittoon, and I put an ashtray in front of him. He neither smoked nor used the spittoon. The same arrangements at dinner. He did not use either. At dinner he said, "I must congratulate...
...thought we were getting Halloween decorations,” said Wolfson. “Instead, we got a life-size mummy.” The ancient dark green creature’s size does create awkward dorm situations. “We have to give a spiel whenever we bring somebody over, just so they don’t freak out,” said roommate Pearl D. Houghteling ’08 as she eyed the clean yet creepy creature. “It’s really scary. We jump a little bit every time we walk...