--- title: Student Showed Up for Her Job Interview a Full Month Early description: She was certain her Skype interview was going wrong — until she realized she'd gotten the month mixed up after all. canonical: https://time.com/5512013/early-job-interview/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-24T15:27:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:04.761Z og:title: Student Showed Up for Her Job Interview a Full Month Early og:description: This eager student logged on for her Skype interview a full month in advance og:url: https://time.com/5512013/early-job-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00b2f04e8e4b260a/698943f297cdff6fa46b7388/skype-microsoft.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4500 og:image:height: 2531 og:image:alt: Skype logo is seen on an android mobile phone og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Student Showed Up for Her Job Interview a Full Month Early twitter:description: This eager student logged on for her Skype interview a full month in advance twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00b2f04e8e4b260a/698943f297cdff6fa46b7388/skype-microsoft.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Eager Student Shows Up for Job Interview a Full Month Early and People Are Invested in Her Journey > Sponsored content. 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Laura MacLean shared her email exchange with the recruitment team on Twitter, showing her polite but nonplussed responses to the unusual situation. “I pride myself in being very prepared and an organized person,” she [told Buzzfeed News](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/student-skype-interview-with-microsoft-mixup), which is why she woke up extra early on Jan. 18 for the interview. The only catch? It was actually scheduled for Feb. 18\. And despite the fact that her birthday is in mid-February, MacLean was insistent that the interview date had, indeed, come to pass. “It is the 18th of February and it was scheduled for 11am? And I still haven’t received a call?” she emailed her Microsoft contact, completely confused about what was going on. Naturally, the messages have [gone viral,](http://time.com/5509832/covington-catholic-nathan-phillips-social-media-division/) with plenty of others chiming in to share their big time-related mistakes. Luckily Microsoft graciously brushed off the mix-up, and she’s still on for the interview. Here’s hoping MacLean will be equally ready for the actual date come February, and with even more experience prepping than she had before. > [](https://twitter.com/lauramacleann/status/1086234983398813697) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5512013/early-job-interview/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5512013/early-job-interview/"},"headline":"Eager Student Shows Up for Job Interview a Full Month Early and People Are Invested in Her Journey","datePublished":"2019-01-24T15:27:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:04.761Z","description":"She was very eager","url":"https://time.com/5512013/early-job-interview/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","career"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00b2f04e8e4b260a/698943f297cdff6fa46b7388/skype-microsoft.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00b2f04e8e4b260a/698943f297cdff6fa46b7388/skype-microsoft.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Skype logo is seen on an android mobile phone","caption":"Skype logo is seen on an android mobile phone","creditText":"SOPA Images—LightRocket via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5512013/early-job-interview/","name":"Eager Student Shows Up for Job Interview a Full Month Early and People Are Invested in Her Journey"}}]}] ```