Another Day, Another Job Interview (or How's Your Poker Face?)

(How to keep from gritting teeth and going mad? Well, that's what this place is for, innit?)

Or you might kill yourself.

Dean, as the saying goes, "I've been through tougher shit than this, and I'm still here."

Besides, I couldn't rule the world from the afterlife, could I?

If I can become a professional time-waster, too, then all the aggro will be worth it.

(Missed ya, missus! Do you check email anymore?)

On to the next....

You go, boy! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

I've had bad luck this week.

Been there, and the one thing I've learned: no matter how bad things get, they eventually get better. (They bloody well HAVE to, eventually.) Good luck on your interview too, and put on your best poker face....

Good luck, Nichole!

GOOD LUCK NICHOLE!

But imagine the Xmas office parties/orgies.....but that's prolly only a fevered dream from the twisted side of my psyche.

(Merci, Sean and Tracer!)

N.B. I heard one of the big franchise bosses interviewing a newbie this afternoon. He shook his hand and said "welcome to the team. Now, I can't lie. We'll have some laughs!" I nearly dropped the wine I was carrying.

Note: Some of the above may not be true.

Really?!?

good luck to all, esp those of you without employment :)

Ha, never! Thanks to all the well-wishers, I start on Feb. 7.

anyway, someone very special wants to congratulate Sean on his good fortune ...

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So far, that second interview turned into fuck all: they basically want a secretary with programming experience...and will pay the princely sum of $7.50/hour. The person who interviewed me is away on a business trip this week, and will make his decision by the next.

Still hunting around for other possibilities, as I can't afford to sell myself or my self-respect.

$7.50 is a low price to sell yourself for.

This job is for a marketing assistant in a very small local office. It sounds fairly interesting and I wouldn't mind doing it but I'm wondering if I should stick to my guns and go for a media job or take this one while the going's good and see how it goes (who knows, I might enjoy it and it's a ticket out of this job, my dad's house and possibly the chance to eventually learn to drive and pay back my £2000 overdraft - a hangover from uni).

There are some Media opportunities available to me but it will be hard to get into them and I'm scared of becoming some kind of marketing man all my life instead of doing what I've always wanted. This may be a bit extreme, but I'm scared that unless I take my chances now, I may never be able to work in the media.

I might actually have to shelve my nightmare visions of staying down here (slightly better than going on Welfare): after a year of searching pro bono and getting crankier by the second, it may all be over by Friday.

Too piss poor to afford the paper these days, so I shuffled up to the (semi-)local library to scan the ads. One of them I answered was to become a 411 operator: the omnisouls who supposedly give you correct numbers for that latest It bar or "megafab" restaurant that sucks your wallet dry. Went to one of my agencies today to take the typing test----thought I'd have to travel 2 hours to get there. Ended up getting to go to my local branch. Didn't have to test at all, since my scores were already entered into my file.

Course, the next round comes on Friday: more typing, geography test, spelling and a personality test. If I pass, I actually have to train (!) for a week, but get $7/hour. After that, I get $9/hour for a 2 month assignment.

Next: Doing overnight data entry (or something) at a company down the road from me. [Can't remember what the hell the job actually is. Sad, innit?] That interview's tomorrow. As they didn't ask me what salary I wanted, this might mean I can afford to keep cash in my pocket and eat.

Did I just jinx meself? Hope not!

Oh, yeah. I got the job, btw. AND IT RULES!

Had a rad, unexpected interview (they asked me! didn't even apply for the job) last week, but I know for certain I won't hear until next week. Still, I'm pretty stoked.

I've spent a few hours over the past few nights scribbling notes as to what I should be answering their questions with, but none of it seems satisfactory. I need a confidence boost, if anyone's got any advice. What happens if they ask me to clarify something on my CV, and I've completely forgotten what it is? Which I'll probably will do, due to a combination of job interview confusion and the fact that I hurridly re-wrote my CV at 3AM before sending it in.

Apparently the first fifteen minutes of the interview involved a writing test, and I have no idea what to expect. I'm a slow writer, I'll probably get about halfway through what they'd expect in that amount of time.

The one good bit is that I've been reading the job description off their website for the past few weeks. I log on this evening only to find that all the important information is missing, arrgh. Five minutes of panicking and - phew - I got a cached version of the original page through Google. Thanks Google!

To cap it all off, I've just been told that one of my ex-friend's ex-housemates used to - or still does, I'm not quite sure - work there, which could make things even weirder for me.

here goes nuthin'.

Oh man, i hope this is finally the one.

what's a good timeframe for following up on an interview? they said they would let people know by next week, and it's been a week; am i allowed to call in and find out where they are in the process?

sounds fair to me, but i am terrible at getting jobs, so... maybe give it a few more days?

I'm dreading this afternoon. Have to somehow sneak out of work (early), put on a suit and go to an interview for a job that's bound to be a grilling, is worth a major pay rise, but for which I just can't bring myself to want hard enough. I just want it out of the way, but I don't want to bluff it or make a mistake, even if I don't decide to take the job....