When Alex gets laid off from his job as a Marketing Executive, he determines to be the best interviewee anyone has ever seen. Unfortunately, he becomes so good that no one wants to hire him because everyone wants to interview him.

SYNOPSIS:

Alex Stazinsky is let go in a reorg. While commiserating with his best friends while watching hockey at their favorite hangout, he meets Susan. The interest is mutual, so they make plans to have lunch. All is going well as they get to know one another until Susan mentions she just changed careers, moving from the nonprofit world to HR. Alex has flashbacks of his termination and simply can't reconcile a wonderful girl like her in HR. He explains why, and lunch does not go as planned.

Alex has no luck with interviews. His friends help with interview advice, network connections, and even by writing software to update his resume. Nothing works. Meanwhile, Susan is realizing her new role doesn't include the joyful, caring, and compassionate elements she knew in her previous position. She continues to find the positive in spite of all evidence lest Alex’s assessment of HR should prove correct.

In desperation, Alex decides to use the free offer for career advice he received when he was terminated. As fate would have it, Susan is his new career counselor. She tries desperately to help him within the allotted number of sessions. He does get interviews but they always lead to a dead end. He bids farewell to Susan, the only nice person in HR he’s ever met.

Alex ponders joining the French Foreign Legion while he and his friends are playing trivial pursuit at their local watering hole. When the announcer asks a question which does not have an answer, Alex snaps. He gets in the DJ’s face and explains how he has been answering ridiculous, subjective questions with no answer for the last several months. The least he can do is ask a question with an answer. The timid response becomes an epiphany for Alex: "Maybe just give the answer I'm looking for?"

Alex implores Susan to continue to help him now that he knows the secret. She agrees and begins building Alex into an interview machine. In fact, he becomes so good that HR reps want their friends to interview him as well, with the stipulation that no one should hire him because there are others who want to interview him.

Alex thinks a job offer is around the corner. He buys tickets to the sold-out hockey playoffs game to celebrate the impending good news, inviting his friends and Susan.

Susan attends an HR function before the game and overhears some women talking about Alex. When she confirms it is her Alex, they can't believe she hasn't interviewed him yet and insist that she do so-- with the usual caveat. She is so dumbfounded she loses herself in Shirley Temples and does not meet Alex for the game.

The next morning Alex goes to Susan's apartment to see if she is ok. She breaks down and tells him what the HR people are doing to him. Also, she probably lost her job. When Alex asks why she thinks so, she reiterates what she said to her boss. He confirms she is fired.

They ponder what the future holds. She won't go back to HR. He's too good at interviewing to get hired. What to do? Suddenly they both realize the answer and “The Stazinsky Method” for interviewing is born. They get married and ride off in a car with a sign on the back saying "Just Hired" to live happily ever after.