Some kind of good news?
I had my interview at the hospital today for some picking position. The IT position I originally applied for was already filled by the time the HR guy got a hold of the IT Supervisor. He pulled some strings and did get me an interview for another position. While waiting to interview I felt like I was watching an episode of scrubs. I met with a man named Clay. He later identified himself as the distribution supervisor. We went over to his department and I was introduced to another lady. A Chinese girl whose name slips my mind. The interview started with the standard questions, the ones I really don't like answering. It went from, "In one word describe yourself" to "On a scale of 1 to 10 how good are your excel, office, and MS access skills". Half way through the interview another girl joined up and I was now being interviewed by three people, something I'm not really accustomed to.
I learned the job was "per diem". This means that I'm pretty much on call from 6am to 6pm with reasonable time. I get called if a shift falls vacant. Not exactly the best schedule, and I was hoping for some guaranteed hours. Oh well, it's a job, and right now I'm pretty desperate.
After the interview ended, I thanked them all for their time and went back to the parking lot. In my car my phone started ringing. I looked at my phone and it was some unknown number. I answered and it was Clay from the interview. He told me that I was pretty much a lot more skilled than they expected--I have a feeling my resume wasn't full reviewed beforehand--and that they wanted to offer me another position. It was called a 'purchasing assistant' and I would be mainly handling customers, excel spreadsheets, money, conferences, and generally a lot of responsibility. The key thing that he noted was that it was guaranteed at least 32 hours a week. Although less than I used to, I have to assume it pays significantly more based off the job description.
I accepted the interview and was told to return two hours later for a second interview with his boss.
This interview was drastically different. Instead of three people, I was interview by five. Jeff, the man interviewing me (and possibly my future boss) had obvious interview experience. He told me has worked at the hospital for 27 years. He asked me about my programming experience--Pearl, Java, HTML, C++, C#--and through some questions at me that were difficult to answer. Towards the end of the interview he asked me if I would be interested in another position as a Distribution Technician. He said it involved monitoring and programming biomedical components of the hospital and that it eventually turns into a bioengineering degree. As interesting to me as that sounded, I feel like it strays from what I want to do in school and that it might be a little over my head in the technical aspect. To cut the story short though, hopefully I get the job at the hospital.
I also got called later that day to interview for an internship as an IT Technician at the Space Needle. My interview is at Tuesday at 9am. I hope it's paid, because as interesting as the sounds, I can't work for free right now. I'm calling them on Monday to find out or cancel the interview.
Plus GTA 4 comes out soon.
If both of those go sour on me, I still have that Transportation Security Agency job vacancy. That'll take a while because they do a really thorough background check for that job.
I learned the job was "per diem". This means that I'm pretty much on call from 6am to 6pm with reasonable time. I get called if a shift falls vacant. Not exactly the best schedule, and I was hoping for some guaranteed hours. Oh well, it's a job, and right now I'm pretty desperate.
After the interview ended, I thanked them all for their time and went back to the parking lot. In my car my phone started ringing. I looked at my phone and it was some unknown number. I answered and it was Clay from the interview. He told me that I was pretty much a lot more skilled than they expected--I have a feeling my resume wasn't full reviewed beforehand--and that they wanted to offer me another position. It was called a 'purchasing assistant' and I would be mainly handling customers, excel spreadsheets, money, conferences, and generally a lot of responsibility. The key thing that he noted was that it was guaranteed at least 32 hours a week. Although less than I used to, I have to assume it pays significantly more based off the job description.
I accepted the interview and was told to return two hours later for a second interview with his boss.
This interview was drastically different. Instead of three people, I was interview by five. Jeff, the man interviewing me (and possibly my future boss) had obvious interview experience. He told me has worked at the hospital for 27 years. He asked me about my programming experience--Pearl, Java, HTML, C++, C#--and through some questions at me that were difficult to answer. Towards the end of the interview he asked me if I would be interested in another position as a Distribution Technician. He said it involved monitoring and programming biomedical components of the hospital and that it eventually turns into a bioengineering degree. As interesting to me as that sounded, I feel like it strays from what I want to do in school and that it might be a little over my head in the technical aspect. To cut the story short though, hopefully I get the job at the hospital.
I also got called later that day to interview for an internship as an IT Technician at the Space Needle. My interview is at Tuesday at 9am. I hope it's paid, because as interesting as the sounds, I can't work for free right now. I'm calling them on Monday to find out or cancel the interview.
Plus GTA 4 comes out soon.
If both of those go sour on me, I still have that Transportation Security Agency job vacancy. That'll take a while because they do a really thorough background check for that job.