I’m pretty sure I never mentioned my encounter with Bow Tie Tim during my brief employment with Belton Schools. He is called thusly due to a predilection for bowties. He applied for a “webmaster” position we had. I won’t go into the story of why webmaster is in quotes, but the fact that nobody is really called webmaster anymore should enlighten you somewhat.
Anyway. He applied to Belton. He lists all his relevant education as a bunch of seminars and conferences. No, seriously. I am not making this up. On paper, he may be either the most highly educated person ever or the least, depending on the importance you place on such things. We interviewed him and…you know…he talked a real good game. He didn’t actually know squat about anything related to web stuff, but he at least seemed motivated and intelligent. Because of the exceptionally low salary we were offering and the sheer unhirability of every other candidate we had interviewed, he seemed like a decent choice. Or, more correctly, the least undesirable.
Then there was the second interview which Bizarro Bow Tie Tim attended. He was, apparently, a completely different person and even went so far as to say his version of webmastering was to delegate work to others. Needless to say, he was not hired.
He has an interview at Aplus tomorrow. I found out about this when people were doing what I assume most do when reviewing his resume: laughing. He accompanies his resume with a little picture of himself wearing a bowtie, as if that really seals the deal. Once I heard people discussing the bowtie, I knew immediately who it was. Luckily for him, the position they are considering him for is a little more in line with the skills he claims to have (SEO/SEM) so it’ll be interesting to see what happens. Sadly for him, he’s up against a team of seasoned marketing peeps so while he may have been able to pull the wool over the relatively inexperienced eyes of Belton’s tech department, he’ll need to bring his A-game for this one.
