As per our conversation earlier.
The job interview process is one of the biggest tests of self-confidence.
So far it is not my credentials, my persona or my demeanor that have failed me. Feed back has fed me a heavy dose of humility as it has been my appearance and typos that have failed me.
I have asked probing questions and answered confidently those asked of me. I have shown genuine interest and demonstrated how well I could fit in a given opportunity. I've made interviewers like me. I look them in the eyes, stand up when they enter the room, shake their hand with a firm sincerity.
My recent failures have been the absence of a suit jacket on an 85 degree 3rd of July and typos in a thank you letter. These are things I knew better; things I should have paid closer attention to; things that I could give a hundred excuses for but deserve none.
It's a process of eliminating reasons for someone not to hire me more so than being a winning candidate for an open position.
I'm grateful for my recruiter as she is the only honest impartial party who truly understands without sympathy. She figuratively smooths my hair and brushes the lint off my suit just before she sends me off again with a swift kick in the ass. It's not personal, this is the job interviewing process. I have to keep pressing forward.
It's a learning process. The lesson isn't jackets and spell-check: it's attention to detail.
"It's a baptism by fire." (by facing a firing squad)
Goal: Emulate Houdini and escape this death trap.
Hire me?
So far it is not my credentials, my persona or my demeanor that have failed me. Feed back has fed me a heavy dose of humility as it has been my appearance and typos that have failed me.
I have asked probing questions and answered confidently those asked of me. I have shown genuine interest and demonstrated how well I could fit in a given opportunity. I've made interviewers like me. I look them in the eyes, stand up when they enter the room, shake their hand with a firm sincerity.
My recent failures have been the absence of a suit jacket on an 85 degree 3rd of July and typos in a thank you letter. These are things I knew better; things I should have paid closer attention to; things that I could give a hundred excuses for but deserve none.
It's a process of eliminating reasons for someone not to hire me more so than being a winning candidate for an open position.
I'm grateful for my recruiter as she is the only honest impartial party who truly understands without sympathy. She figuratively smooths my hair and brushes the lint off my suit just before she sends me off again with a swift kick in the ass. It's not personal, this is the job interviewing process. I have to keep pressing forward.
It's a learning process. The lesson isn't jackets and spell-check: it's attention to detail.
"It's a baptism by fire." (by facing a firing squad)
Goal: Emulate Houdini and escape this death trap.
Hire me?