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I can't wait until Thursday to find out that I've ffaaaaaiiiilllleeedd. I know I should think positively but that's difficult because I'm not a positive person.
The position is far more amazing than I initially thought. In the beginning I thought it was just a care aide position, but it turned out to be far more badass because it's like this super cutting edge harm-reduction project in the Hastings eastside that works in conjunction with St.Paul's and Vancouver costal to provide essential care and do research. That's like super awesome.
Unfortunately, that meant that other people found it super cool as well so the compeition is like, so much more fierce than I anticipated.
So the interview itself went well. The interviewer seemed like a blunt individual who doesn't mince words so I more or less trust what she tells me to be genuine. There are two positions open, one full time and one primary relief position. She flat out told me that she wouldn't consider me for the full time position because I would go back to school in September and her and I both know that if there is ever a scheduling conflict with this work and my school work, I would always choose school first. A bit dissappointing, but she's right so I agreed. That said, she said I was a strong candidate for the relief position and to fill up hours, she would refer my resume to the nursing assistants relief pool which would provide me with more hours and more relevant experience. She seemed to like that I had a long and employment history in particular pub management and night auditing and she was explaining to me about the program here and how it works and when the training would be and who would I meet and all these specific details about the work and what I would expect but stopped just short of giving me the job at the very end saying that although I am a very strong candidate for the position, she still has to finish interviewing everyone else she has shortlisted before making a decision. She also told me that although I have alot of relevant work experience and secondary qualities that would be vauable, when it came to actually being medically certified, I was at the bottom of the totem pole because out of the shortlists, I have no REAL certificate, one other has a care aide certificate and everyone else are LPNs. So I'll know if I was accepted or rejected Thursday, which is tommorow.
So I suppose technically it's still a victory of some sort regardless of what happens because a reletive noob like me was actually picked to compete at all, so I'll try not to feel too crushed when I get the "no" tommorow.
Also, this experience has taught me that training to become an RN is so much better than LPN and I made the right decision there. They must be SATURATED with LPNs nowadays I knew something was up when they started opening up a billion private "colleges" and started pumping them out. I just hope the same thing doesn't happen to RNs by the time I'm out. Fingers crossed.
I'm going to go back feeling like a failure now sulking in my artifical gloom.
The position is far more amazing than I initially thought. In the beginning I thought it was just a care aide position, but it turned out to be far more badass because it's like this super cutting edge harm-reduction project in the Hastings eastside that works in conjunction with St.Paul's and Vancouver costal to provide essential care and do research. That's like super awesome.
Unfortunately, that meant that other people found it super cool as well so the compeition is like, so much more fierce than I anticipated.
So the interview itself went well. The interviewer seemed like a blunt individual who doesn't mince words so I more or less trust what she tells me to be genuine. There are two positions open, one full time and one primary relief position. She flat out told me that she wouldn't consider me for the full time position because I would go back to school in September and her and I both know that if there is ever a scheduling conflict with this work and my school work, I would always choose school first. A bit dissappointing, but she's right so I agreed. That said, she said I was a strong candidate for the relief position and to fill up hours, she would refer my resume to the nursing assistants relief pool which would provide me with more hours and more relevant experience. She seemed to like that I had a long and employment history in particular pub management and night auditing and she was explaining to me about the program here and how it works and when the training would be and who would I meet and all these specific details about the work and what I would expect but stopped just short of giving me the job at the very end saying that although I am a very strong candidate for the position, she still has to finish interviewing everyone else she has shortlisted before making a decision. She also told me that although I have alot of relevant work experience and secondary qualities that would be vauable, when it came to actually being medically certified, I was at the bottom of the totem pole because out of the shortlists, I have no REAL certificate, one other has a care aide certificate and everyone else are LPNs. So I'll know if I was accepted or rejected Thursday, which is tommorow.
So I suppose technically it's still a victory of some sort regardless of what happens because a reletive noob like me was actually picked to compete at all, so I'll try not to feel too crushed when I get the "no" tommorow.
Also, this experience has taught me that training to become an RN is so much better than LPN and I made the right decision there. They must be SATURATED with LPNs nowadays I knew something was up when they started opening up a billion private "colleges" and started pumping them out. I just hope the same thing doesn't happen to RNs by the time I'm out. Fingers crossed.
I'm going to go back feeling like a failure now sulking in my artifical gloom.