Interview Question

While trying to figure out what to write for my final blog for March, I came across an article in AllBusiness.com that was titled "The Toughest Question in the Interview" by Don Straits. The author stated that the toughest question in an interview is "Tell me about yourself" and how a person should go about answering such a question. The author believes that you should first take a personality test to find out what type of style you exhibit. The author writes that by finding out what type of personality style you exhibit, it will help you in your career and your personal life as well. He also believes that by knowing what personality the person that is interviewing you will help you in knowing as to how to respond to the toughest question which is "Tell me about yourself?". I understand what the author is talking about, but I think that if you are confident about yourself and what you know that it will come across just fine in an interview. In my opinion, even if you know what type of personality you exhibit, will you really know what type of personality other people exhibit especially the very first time you meet them. I would think that it would take a little bit more than five or ten minutes to even come close to knowing the other persons personality. There are people that act a certain way around other people or crowds then when they are just hanging around their friends. I would hate to make the wrong judgment about a person that's interviewing me and not get the job because I answer the question based upon what I thought they wanted to hear. I'd rather answer the question upon my experience and hope for the best.

Gas Prices

I was reading and article on the Santa Cruz Sentinel on gas prices. According to the article it looks like gas prices will not rise drastically anymore. But I don't really know whether to believe that gas prices have hit their peak because it always seems that something happens and the price of oil goes up. It's weird that around this time there's always some sort of fire happening at an oil refinery and the price of gas goes up. The other thing that I don't understand is howcome oil companies keep having record profits. According to Msnbc.msn.com Exxon recorded 10.7 billion profit in its fourth quarter last year. Since there's not much competition in the oil business we will have to pay whatever prices they dictate to us. I'm starting to save money for a hybrid but as the price of gas goes up, my savings seems to go down.