<p>Should the interviewee give the interviewer a resume?</p>
<p>It depends. I think it’s safe to bring one just in case. If the interveiwer doesn’t ask for one, doesn’t want one, you’ll have it there. If you don’t have one, you’ll look irresponsible. Just don’t go about waving it in front of their faces.</p>
<p>^Should the interviewee voluntarily ask whether the interviewer would like to have his/her resume? If so, when? At the beginning of the interview?</p>
<p>I haven’t done an interview yet, but from what I’ve heard, I think it’s appropriate to ask if the interviewer wants to see it. </p>
<p>Definitely not at the beginning (you can see how silly this could be: “Hi, my name such-and-such, it was a pleasure to meet you. Do you want to see my resume?”). </p>
<p>I would recommend that you show the resume when you guys are talking in depth about your activities/interests. By this point however, they might ask you to produce one, but it’s also impressive if you can speak about your resume without having it in front of you. Some interviewers want to see it beforehand, as a guide for further interrogation - I mean, curiosity - while others want to talk to you to speak about your passions, and not the paper.</p>
<p>I’ve had one interview so far, and I brought a resume just in case. I asked the interviewer if he would like to see it after the requisite introductions. He gladly took it, though he didn’t spend the interview running through the bullet points. It did, however, allow him to direct the conversation to my interests and activities–for example, he would have had no idea I’ve spent the last three summers away from home without my resume, and he directed the conversation to that by asking, “So I see you’ve been busy during the summers. Fill me in.” </p>
<p>In short: Bring a resume.</p>