Generally, when someone interviews with me, it's their last interview. And generally, prior to the interview, I have a full list of what I'm looking for. I'm trying to understand culture fit and if they're the right person for the job. It's also an opportunity for me to set expectations for them. To me, educating yourself and learning constantly is what will separate any candidate.
Kicking off this UFC Shanghai edition of TTP is our interview with UFC lightweight, Gauge Young. Young talks about the awkward circumstances around his UFC debut. From fighting on short notice, to fighting a friend - he runs down the whole situation for us. Now with a full training camp, he's ready to show the UFC what he's really made of. He'll head to Shanghai for a date with Maheshate and he gives us a breakdown of that fight.
If Palmer is a unique talent on the pitch, he is unique to interview, as well. Short shrift is his default setting; plenty of his answers are monosyllabic, some just a sound hmmm.
Howerdel expressed his current writing process, stating, 'I'm in a not-sleeping-much and self-discovery mode. When I'm writing music, I've been full night-terror...'. This captures his intense creative phase.
"The interviews were pretty strange," Qureshi said on the podcast. "You'd be chatting about philosophy for an hour and a half and it would very much just be like he would pick a topic out of thin air."