1) some of your names (Ehrenreich?) might, possibly, alienate some conservative interviewer, hiring committee, etc, but I doubt it, since you don't have blurbs from Marx, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Ladin, and other socially unacceptable types. Ehrenreich is a Best Selling Author, so OK.
2) More important is whether you have the blurb writers' OK to use these communications. If they were posted for publication, hey, they're public. If they are private communications, you may risk alienating the blurb writers if they discover your use of these communications and object. I can't imagine that this would affect your interview or job chances unless (very unlikely) the hiring people called for verification as and the blurb writer blew a gasket. They're more likely to be interested in whether you test positive for drugs, have a criminal record, or edit a scurrilous, sex-saturated radical blog.
Knock 'em dead. Break a leg! We're all pulling for you.
--- bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
> At the last minute, I decided to put together a
> portfolio of my work to
> take to a couple of interviews I have lined up this
> week. I haven't had
> time to ask if it's OK to use these blurbs,
> generally conveyed to me via email.
>
> E.g., one is from B. Ehrenreich. Others are from VP
> of Information Security
> at VIP government agency. That sort of thing.
>
> Should I use them with names, or stick them in their
> without their names.
> Is this something a VIP company would frown on?
> Since this one job is at
> VIP mega-huge corporation which, sad but true, I
> will end up staying in
> LimpDick for if I happen to be so fortunate: pay,
> bennies, etc.
>
> At first I didn't think anything of it, but now I'm
> starting to lean in the
> direction of: no.
>
> Thoughts? My interview is at 9 a.m. so I'm going to
> make up two version and
> assemble it first thing in the morning, one with
> names/companies and the
> other without. Sort of like I have on our web site
> now under client fan mail.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
> "You know how it is, come for the animal porn,
> stay for the cultural analysis." -- Michael Berube
>
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> http://blog.pulpculture.org
>
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