Tell me all about employment interviewing

[Lil' Hannah]

How is the pay for recent grads? - That's a sort of tough question to answer but there are plenty of us that have graduated within the last few years and make enough to live on our own, pay bills, and have enough money left at the end of the month to go shopping or hit the bars.

What do you love/hate about it? - I hate hate hate applying for jobs and writing cover letters and crap. Luckily the two jobs I've had since I left college pretty much fell into my lap so I didn't have to write too many of them. As far as the interview itself, I would get a bit nervous that the interviewer would throw some sort of bizarro question my way to try to figure out some hidden meaning from my answer but everything was pretty straightforward so that's cool.

Are you allowed to take notes or tape record interviews? - Having been the interviewer before, I'd think it would be pretty strange if someone was recording or taking detailed notes during the interview. If you're doing group interviews at a career fair or something it might not be too strange to jot a few things down, but if you're in a one-on-one interview at an office it might be better to write things down after you leave.