Thursday, October 30, 2014

Week 04 EOC


Magdaleno_DevilWearsPradaAnalysis

           In the selected scenes in The Devil Wears Prada, Andy (Anne Hathaway) was first interviewing for the Runway Magazine to be an assistant to the Chief Editor. The first of her problems with the interview was that she did not dress appropriately for the type of environment Andy would be working in. Second she did not research the company at all prior to the interview. An example was that her first interviewer mentioned the Chief Editor Miranda (Meryl Streep), which Andy did not research about and then asked on who Miranda is. Her first interviewer did not take kindly to Andy’s ignorance but passed it. Then came the news that Miranda was coming entering the building, at that point everyone scrambled to their proper posts, procedures, apparel, as to not incur the wrath of Miranda. After adjusting in her office Miranda then gave an interview to Andy. Andy then made the clear mistakes that can be made in an interview. First she was too generic, she said the cliché things that interviewers could catch on especially Miranda. Miranda then gave Andy the queue to leave her office because she failed her interview. But as she Andy was leaving she stopped herself and stood up to Miranda and told her that she was more than what Miranda has perceived to be which impressed Miranda. No one else who works at the magazine does not have the courage to stand up to her, but Andy did which is what she did right in the interview. Not much as she stood up for herself but that she did not pretend to be something just to get hired. Now she is hired by the magazine and still has much to learn on her career.

“be careful about what you tweet or post online.”

“limiting your job search limits the possibilities.”

“to really rock that interview, you’ve got to push the fear aside and boost your confidence.”

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