The Importance of Knowing Whom You’re Interviewing
Imagine this scenario:
You go to a television station for a job interview. Someone walks into a room and calls your name. You follow. The next thing you know, you’re being interviewed on live television about a topic tangential to your specialty. You start thinking it might be a mistake, especially when you realize the name the interviewer used is similar to yours, but it isn’t actually yours. The interviewer doesn’t seem to notice the mistake.
The Daily Mail relates the BBC’s recent unfortunate incident of mistaken identity on live television. A producer entered a waiting room, called a name, and took someone into the studio for a live interview. As you might imagine from what else I’ve written here, it turned out to be the wrong person who had a similar name to the guest the producer wanted. The Daily Mail has a copy of the resulting video. The man who was supposed to be on the news show explains a little bit more and points out the Daily Mail’s incorrect identification of the man as a cab driver. It seems he might have been at the studio that day for a job interview.
