<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pegs @ Jul 27 2008, 09:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'> Ha, lame</div> What the hell is this from? Funniest thing I've seen in days.
I had a job interview today (tutoring agency)- turned out to be a group interview, with 4 other candidates, each of whom was a better candidate and better dressed than I was. I'd heard it was supposed to be a really chill, quick interview, so I'm wearing a tie, but I'm also wearing sneakers and so-so pants, and everyone else is pretty damn formal. They also have their resumes printed on nice paper, in folders or whatever, along with teaching certificates. I'm last to speak, and I've had no tutoring experience, so I start getting nervous as they each talk about the plethora of experience they have, my hands start sweating, my resume (the crappy paper resume) actually gets wet. I take about 20 seconds to talk about my lack of experience, I can't meet her eye, and when I do, my head literally starts shaking. Then she describes the program to us, but I'm not listening, because I'm thinking about what the hell it must look like to someone else that my head was shaking. Was it noticeable? Did I seem like a crazy man? I don't know. Then I realize I'm not listening, so I try to pay attention as she finishes talking. She asks for questions, I come up with one, but apparently it was something she'd addressed while talking. It was really just a fantastic experience all around.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (lukewarmplay @ Aug 2 2008, 04:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I had a job interview today (tutoring agency)- turned out to be a group interview, with 4 other candidates, each of whom was a better candidate and better dressed than I was. I'd heard it was supposed to be a really chill, quick interview, so I'm wearing a tie, but I'm also wearing sneakers and so-so pants, and everyone else is pretty damn formal. They also have their resumes printed on nice paper, in folders or whatever, along with teaching certificates. I'm last to speak, and I've had no tutoring experience, so I start getting nervous as they each talk about the plethora of experience they have, my hands start sweating, my resume (the crappy paper resume) actually gets wet. I take about 20 seconds to talk about my lack of experience, I can't meet her eye, and when I do, my head literally starts shaking. Then she describes the program to us, but I'm not listening, because I'm thinking about what the hell it must look like to someone else that my head was shaking. Was it noticeable? Did I seem like a crazy man? I don't know. Then I realize I'm not listening, so I try to pay attention as she finishes talking. She asks for questions, I come up with one, but apparently it was something she'd addressed while talking. It was really just a fantastic experience all around.</div> Is that lack of self-confidence normal for you in interviews?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Aug 2 2008, 04:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (lukewarmplay @ Aug 2 2008, 04:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I had a job interview today (tutoring agency)- turned out to be a group interview, with 4 other candidates, each of whom was a better candidate and better dressed than I was. I'd heard it was supposed to be a really chill, quick interview, so I'm wearing a tie, but I'm also wearing sneakers and so-so pants, and everyone else is pretty damn formal. They also have their resumes printed on nice paper, in folders or whatever, along with teaching certificates. I'm last to speak, and I've had no tutoring experience, so I start getting nervous as they each talk about the plethora of experience they have, my hands start sweating, my resume (the crappy paper resume) actually gets wet. I take about 20 seconds to talk about my lack of experience, I can't meet her eye, and when I do, my head literally starts shaking. Then she describes the program to us, but I'm not listening, because I'm thinking about what the hell it must look like to someone else that my head was shaking. Was it noticeable? Did I seem like a crazy man? I don't know. Then I realize I'm not listening, so I try to pay attention as she finishes talking. She asks for questions, I come up with one, but apparently it was something she'd addressed while talking. It was really just a fantastic experience all around.</div> Is that lack of self-confidence normal for you in interviews? </div> It's something that in general has gotten a lot better- until today. But even today, I wasn't nervous going in.
Best thing to do is to use that experience as a learning moment. Figure out how to remain attentive even when thrown like that. Generally, in a group interview like that, they are looking for someone's personality to stand out.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Aug 2 2008, 04:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Best thing to do is to use that experience as a learning moment. Figure out how to remain attentive even when thrown like that. Generally, in a group interview like that, they are looking for someone's personality to stand out.</div> Then I'll probably always be lousy at group interviews (maybe not as lousy). But I might still get work there- she's definitely taking on more than 1, if not all 5, and I know the woman taking over for her in a month or so when she goes out on maternity leave, so I'll get a student or two thrown to me then. I think my thank you email tomorrow will make reference to my nervousness.
Jordan vid <div><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zqlBUj9bFC4&"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zqlBUj9bFC4&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /></embed></object></div> He doesn't hold back much here. :[
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Swish @ Aug 2 2008, 11:48 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I love job interviews. You just have to be confident and relaxed.</div> That is only part of it. Preparation is a huge key. Plus there is a huge difference between interviewing as High Schooler than as an adult for professional positions.
Yea Swish, you child. Man, I've been spending mad cash in the last 3 days. Clubs, Movies, Dinner, Chick, Friends. ****, I need to stop spending so much. I hate getting drunk and texting...then making a call to a chick who's cousin you hooked up with at a club than the next day at a movie and asking her if she wants to go mini golfing....codayum I'm pimp. ...Money, Cars, Clothes, Hoes! I'm Fresh To Death! Funny song: MY DOUGIE! I'm Fresh! My Dougie! Fly with em'! BOATZ N' HOEZ! "I have a nice v of hair goin down from my chest pubes down to my ball fro and she says I've had the old bull, now I want the young calf, and grabs me by the penis."
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (King Shake @ Aug 2 2008, 11:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yea Swish, you child. Man, I've been spending mad cash in the last 3 days. Clubs, Movies, Dinner, Chick, Friends. ****, I need to stop spending so much. I hate getting drunk and texting...then making a call to a chick who's cousin you hooked up with at a club than the next day at a movie and asking her if she wants to go mini golfing....codayum I'm pimp. ...Money, Cars, Clothes, Hoes! I'm Fresh To Death! Funny song: MY DOUGIE! I'm Fresh! My Dougie! Fly with em'! BOATZ N' HOEZ! "I have a nice v of hair goin down from my chest pubes down to my ball fro and she says I've had the old bull, now I want the young calf, and grabs me by the penis."</div> Shake, did the girl you hook up with look better or worse than this charming individual? <div><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/E6qNQYQKTnI&"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/E6qNQYQKTnI&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /></embed></object></div> Codayum I'm pimp. : O
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (lukewarmplay @ Aug 2 2008, 04:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I had a job interview today (tutoring agency)- turned out to be a group interview, with 4 other candidates, each of whom was a better candidate and better dressed than I was. I'd heard it was supposed to be a really chill, quick interview, so I'm wearing a tie, but I'm also wearing sneakers and so-so pants, and everyone else is pretty damn formal. They also have their resumes printed on nice paper, in folders or whatever, along with teaching certificates. I'm last to speak, and I've had no tutoring experience, so I start getting nervous as they each talk about the plethora of experience they have, my hands start sweating, my resume (the crappy paper resume) actually gets wet. I take about 20 seconds to talk about my lack of experience, I can't meet her eye, and when I do, my head literally starts shaking. Then she describes the program to us, but I'm not listening, because I'm thinking about what the hell it must look like to someone else that my head was shaking. Was it noticeable? Did I seem like a crazy man? I don't know. Then I realize I'm not listening, so I try to pay attention as she finishes talking. She asks for questions, I come up with one, but apparently it was something she'd addressed while talking. It was really just a fantastic experience all around.</div> Wow, that's nearly identical to me. I swear, we're like twins or something. The last interview I went to, I thought I knew what I was doing, but it ended up being for a job that there was no way in hell I could be doing. I was so nervous, and I was shaking a bit, and stuttering. And I knew for a fact I wouldn't be getting the job, but somehow the interviewers ended up dragging it out anyways. Assholes.
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