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Archive for August, 2005
Stop the presses!!!!!!11!A fire destroys Marie Osmond’s garage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lamest. News story. Ever.
You win some. You lose some.Friday afternoon. No call after my crappy interview. I doubt I’ll be hearing from them other than a form letter in the next few days. Oh well. It was worth a shot I suppose.
Wind-up car?
My crappy phone interviewThe more I think about it, the more I am bothered by today’s poor phone interview. I figured that once I let a few hours pass and realized that there is nothing else I could do, that I’d let that experience go to the back of my mind and take it as a learning experience. But it’s not happening. I keep getting more and more upset with myself. Why is that? Mostly because I know how well I could have done. I was ready to answer so many questions that I just knew were going to come up such as “why did you apply for this position?” and “why should we hire you over the others?”. Instead none of those questions were asked. They were very clear, straight to the point, waste-no-time, questions, which totally threw me off balance since I figured that there would be a small warm up period with some light chit-chat. I don’t blame them though, I’ve conducted interviews many times before and it’s very time consuming and you just want to know if the person you are talking to is qualified or not. So while I still wish and hope that I’ll hear back from them inviting me to a face-to-face interview, I have no one but myself for not truly being my calmed self during the conversation. If there is a silver-lining to this story, it is that it did not happen on my birthday. InterviewThis morning I had a phone interview for a job at a university and department that really impressed me after I toured them a few years ago. I was very excited when they asked to talk to me on the phone because I would absolutely enjoy the job. How did I do? Well, I was much more nervous than I thought I would. Maybe I over-prepared. I think that I rambled with some questions and I’m afraid that even my accent got thicker. It was frustrating because I know I’m very qualified for the job. It is, after all, almost the same thing that I’m doing right now at a department that is extremely similar to theirs. It is hard to talk to a group of people on a speaker-phone, specially when you can’t see their faces or their non-verbal feedback. I wish I would have performed better over the phone but I guess that this whole adventure is out of my hands right now. I hope they give me the chance for a face-to-face interview because I think that’s what I’m much better at. Wish me luck!
Mighty MouseTo celebrate my birthday, Apple has released their first-ever multi-button mouse, aptly named the Might Mouse. But following their minimalistic style, it looks as if the mouse has no buttons at all! Apple keeps amazing me with each and every product they release. Now I need to bang my mouse around in hope it breaks so that I have a reason to order a Mighty Mouse of my own. 32 years ago….
I got to see Barkley again
I got to see Wichita-Ron, Barkley’s owner, as well. It was awesome to hang out with him as well since I hadn’t seen him in a while (thanks for the meal too by the way!) |
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