I had two interviews today. One couldn’t have gone better, I felt pretty much completely in control the whole time. The other, more important one was with the guy who would actually be my supervisor. I think it went ok, but he was totally unreadable. I had no idea whether I was impressing him or not, and I felt the pressure and stumbled a fair amount. At one point I even apologized and said this job meant a great deal to me and I was very stressed, and to please bear with me over my occasional stumbles. I couldn’t even tell whether this was a good thing or bad thing to say.
They expect to do a second set of interviews next week with the survivors of this one. Honestly, I don’t really know what more they would be looking for – I had two one hour conversations one on one, and there’s not much more to say. But I guess I’ll see – or I hope I’ll see.
In our group the second round of interviews were usually to see if you would fit into the group. Sometimes a lesser candidate would win if we thought he would get along better with the team.
I think the interview went well – who knows with these things, though, eh? They’ve got at least one more person to talk to, so I probably won’t hear anything for a week or two. Or more, with these folks.
I’ve been ‘under-employed’ for about 3 years now and completly unemployed since Jan 1.
The perfect job opened up about 3 weeks ago and still nobody has even interviewed for it. I should get it. It is the same job I did for Paramount Pictures but with Universal Pictures.
I’m second-thougtsing like mad this morning – “shouldn’t have said this, should have said that differently” – so I’m far less sanguine than I was yesterday.
Sigh. I’ve been looking for a new job since June. I got a lead on a great job through a friend. Kicked ass in the first interview, got the callback and kicked ass on the second one as well. Got a phone call–the guy I’d be reporting to wants to hire me, but they are in the middle of a reorganization (which has been going on since last summer) so external hires are on hold until the reorg shakes itself out. He has no idea of whether he’ll be hiring or not.
In the meantime, I’m pretty certain layoffs are coming at my current job and that I’m on the chopping block. The whole thing sucks but I’m trying to stay positive.
At least you have a job in the meantime. I’m coming up on the first anniversary of being laid off, and I’m scraping by on unemployment supplemented by freelancing, and by not spending any money.
I got a call from a recruitment agency in Sweden and she said they had a match for me. Purchasing Manager (in which I have experience) for a cosmetics company (in which I have no experience)… I explained why I was an extremely good fit for this position (with a couple of other words) and should hear back from her after Easter.
In the meanwhile, the Icelandic Unemployment Agency is apparently banning me from going abroad for interviews, since apparently - they’re “paying” me to get a new job in Iceland, not a new job period. Which sucks
