Unemployment
Will it ever end?
I had two interviews today. One really, since the other was with a amazingly ridiculously unprofessional and unintelligent placement agency. The posting was not for "office assistant" lady, and people aren't going to hire me to do it for $45,000-$55,000/year.
The second interview is more promising. It's with a marketing firm called GMI. The position is quite obscure and, if I get it, I'm sure I'll spent a lot of time practicing the explanation of what I do. That said, it's a technically demanding position involving lots of teamwork in a digital market research environment. One of their questions was, "Why should we hire you?" Which is a open-ended interview question I've heard before. "I don't know if you get many people extremely interested in working with computers, databases, digital market research, independent work-requirements and teamwork involvement, but I am." All the interviewers were good people FWIW, with charismatic attitudes and outgoing personalities. It was good times. That means I like the people and the environment. My answers seemed to be off-base from what they were looking for at times. I had a hard time answering questions like, "Tell me about a time when you were invested in a project and told by a superior that it was [total crap]." (because I don't get told that hardly ever). I also felt a little under dressed considering I didn't wear a tie per the recruiters suggestion, and the fact that most people wear nice clothes in any marketing firm. By the way, did you know that sweater vests were back in style? 2 out of 3 of my interviewers wear them when interviewing candidates as per my poor statistics :D
I am concerned about the amount of keyboarding and computing it will require. The email load will reach into the hundreds per day and I will be responsible for evaluating the feasibility of--from what I can tell-- dozens of market research studies per day based on the company's database of available interviewees. It's a risk I'm more than willing to take at this point with the job market and my relative good health.
Man do I want this job. Pay shouldn't be too shabby as well. I want so badly not to be unemployed anymore. Not to mention that I want this job very much. SO BAD.
This trip didn't turn out as awesome as it could have been. I wasn't offered a job immediately; wasn't able to take out that Rumiko girl; didn't see Maki; and aren't feeling the apartment search tomorrow. I'll stick around for a while, though. If they call with an offer I want to be in town to sign paperwork and apartment search immediately. That would be a definite turn for the better in my life.
Here's to hoping and praying for a good call tomorrow in what could be an awesome day.
I had two interviews today. One really, since the other was with a amazingly ridiculously unprofessional and unintelligent placement agency. The posting was not for "office assistant" lady, and people aren't going to hire me to do it for $45,000-$55,000/year.
The second interview is more promising. It's with a marketing firm called GMI. The position is quite obscure and, if I get it, I'm sure I'll spent a lot of time practicing the explanation of what I do. That said, it's a technically demanding position involving lots of teamwork in a digital market research environment. One of their questions was, "Why should we hire you?" Which is a open-ended interview question I've heard before. "I don't know if you get many people extremely interested in working with computers, databases, digital market research, independent work-requirements and teamwork involvement, but I am." All the interviewers were good people FWIW, with charismatic attitudes and outgoing personalities. It was good times. That means I like the people and the environment. My answers seemed to be off-base from what they were looking for at times. I had a hard time answering questions like, "Tell me about a time when you were invested in a project and told by a superior that it was [total crap]." (because I don't get told that hardly ever). I also felt a little under dressed considering I didn't wear a tie per the recruiters suggestion, and the fact that most people wear nice clothes in any marketing firm. By the way, did you know that sweater vests were back in style? 2 out of 3 of my interviewers wear them when interviewing candidates as per my poor statistics :D
I am concerned about the amount of keyboarding and computing it will require. The email load will reach into the hundreds per day and I will be responsible for evaluating the feasibility of--from what I can tell-- dozens of market research studies per day based on the company's database of available interviewees. It's a risk I'm more than willing to take at this point with the job market and my relative good health.
Man do I want this job. Pay shouldn't be too shabby as well. I want so badly not to be unemployed anymore. Not to mention that I want this job very much. SO BAD.
This trip didn't turn out as awesome as it could have been. I wasn't offered a job immediately; wasn't able to take out that Rumiko girl; didn't see Maki; and aren't feeling the apartment search tomorrow. I'll stick around for a while, though. If they call with an offer I want to be in town to sign paperwork and apartment search immediately. That would be a definite turn for the better in my life.
Here's to hoping and praying for a good call tomorrow in what could be an awesome day.