One interview went very well; the other got cancelled.
Canceled? Not postponed?
Well at least one went well. Good luck!
Finally, something has come up! Looks like a local computer company might have need for my language expertise (in Swedish), which might give me a translation gig for starters.
Have a meeting with the boss next monday, but the way it sounded when I talked to him on the phone today, it looks very good - as long as they get some state money (which they ought to).
I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
And Sir T-Cups, the waiting game sucks sooo much 
Cancelled; they’ve put a hold on all recruitment.
And it’s the one I really want. I just have to hope that the other candidates didn’t do even better than I did.
Update: just (as in 15 minutes ago, as in 8 PM) got an email from the publisher (currently acting as editor), saying he wants to use the piece that had been killed (I’d sent it to him per his request), could I add some info on a new development and get it to him by start of the day Wednesday?
Sure I can.
And I can mention in my critique of the magazine and of the way they’re running things over there that this kind of last-minute BS doesn’t happen when you have an editor who knows what she’s doing running things.
Sounds like some good news. At least it is income, eh?
Here’s hoping they wise up and realize that they need a real editor.
He realizes that – the question is whether I am that person or not. (And the question is on my part equally to his, I think – he and I really do need to talk.)
Argh…an HR person was supposed to call me at 11 today for a follow-up sort of interview. It’s almost noon…I’m getting way to anxious and nervous over here! It should have been over and done with by now!
I know it is frustrating, but don’t sweat it. In the course of a day things come up and the HR person may be distracted. I’m betting that He/She will get back to you this afternoon.
I hope so…I guess I’m lucky that I have nothing else to do today, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t something else I wanted to do. Now I have to spend all day here next to the phone until she calls.
Oh God been there…that is the worst
I’ve been doing that today too. And it looks like tomorrow will be the same.
Well I just totally fucked up a phone interview. I was SO freaking nervous. More so than I used to be when I wasn’t desperate for a job. I kept saying “you know” over and over even when I tried to stop. They asked me about my job history and I got all befuddled and said something that completely wasn’t right but didn’t want to correct myself because then it would look like I was either a liar or someone who can’t even remember their own past correctly. They were super interested in why I’ve been unemployed nearly two years now and I don’t think they believed my reason. It was so awful and after I got off the phone I just cried
Ah, geez, I’m so sorry.
Any ideas about how you can do things differently next time?
oh goddamn that sucks angelsoft…i’m so sorry
(internet hug)
I dunno…I didn’t use to be like this at interviews. I was always so proud about how cool and calm I could be. But now…my job history is mediocre at best and I know it so I get really worried and paranoid about it whenever it looks like they’re going to ask me those dreaded questions. “Why did you leave?” “What’s this two year gap?”. I think with the phone, the worst is I can’t see their face and read their reactions. So all I hear is silence and I assume the worst. Hopefully they’ll quickly send me my “thanks but no thanks” email and I can move on…
Well, you know they’re going to ask – so what kind of answer can you come up with?
AngelSoft, I’m not sure if you shared this and I missed it, but why did you miss two years?
It isn’t a deal-breaker when I’m hiring. More than anything, they want to be sure that they won’t have to do another job search in a few months, so that is why they care.
twickster, I have answers and explanations all planned out. But the moment I start explaining during an interview, I get flustered and nervous because I feel like they’re stupid reasons and that they won’t believe me.
Khadaji, my last job ended May 07. I got pregnant shortly after and it was a high risk pregnancy so I couldn’t work. By the time I had my daughter, I was living with my parents who were more than willing to support me so I could spend at least the first six months with her exclusively. I finally started looking the end of last year and haven’t had any luck at all. This phone interview was the first bite I’ve had so that’s probably why it hit me so hard when I failed it miserably.
Hr never called me today, even after I called and left a voice mail. Hopefully I get a call or email tomorrow.