Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Arguments and Interviews

Well, last night I spent worrying about stuff, interviews and Pete mainly. Strangely enough, after the conversation I had with Joey last night, I didn't dream. Must be some kind of miracle.
Anyway I didn't sleep well...heh no change there then, if it goes on for much longer like this I'll go mad. erm madder.
Anyway, got up this morning, had a shower, put on my suit, chiopped and changed the skirts around a couple of times, and eventually settled on the skirt I'd put on first..as you do. Went and checked my email, and lo and behold there was an email off the Pete. Telling me off for not making a good enough effort to reach him. I mean ok I texted him, and rang him on sunday, but it's not my fault if O2 are being crap and not putting the call through. Personally I'd have appreciated the email yesterday so I wasn't worrying that he was dead all night, but fair enough, he didn't know I had an interview today. Soo long and short, we had a bit of an email argument, which weirdly enough made me feel a bit better, cos well, he's still alive and apparently talking to me, even if it is in tones of annoyance. Spoke to Joey for about ten minutes and then wandered off to the interview.
Got the bus in plenty of time. Except I didn't allow for bloody buses bloody changing bloody drivers half way there. I hate it when they do that...doesn't bother me if I'm going shopping or whatever, but when you're trying to get somewhere for a certain time, and your not absolutley sure where your going, and the bus stops for ten minutes while the replacement driver has a chinwag with the replacee driver, it's really annoying.
I needn't have worried, when I got to the jobcentre they kept me waiting for twenty minutes. I was the last interviewee.
And all in all it went very well, if there weren't 200 interviews for 17 jobs I'd be quite confident, but there is so I'm not holding my breath. Is good interview practise anyway.
And I wasn't lookin forward to it, but it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Knowing basically what they were going to ask because of failing dismally at it last time I went to one of those kind of interviews probably helped...it was all give an example of a time when you a)communicated effectively to produce a good result, b)gave good customer service. c)gave bad customer service. d)worked well as a team etc, and the other one, and how did you feel about yourrole in each of those eamples, and what did you learn. Complete bollocks really, and I answered them all, making stuff up as and when it was needed lol
So I think it went quite well...is just a case of wait and see now and hope that all the other applicants were as bad as I was last time I went for a csa interview which was ohh, probably 5 years ago now.
Anyway, fingers crossed, keep filling in the forms and sending them off....

2 Comments:

At 7:31 pm, Blogger Chris said...

Yeah fight bollocks with bollocks (disturbing mental image there) play the interviewers at their game! Sounds like you did really well... here's hoping. And like you said, even if you don't get it you now officially speak the language :-)

 
At 7:31 pm, Blogger Chris said...

Yeah fight bollocks with bollocks (disturbing mental image there) play the interviewers at their game! Sounds like you did really well... here's hoping. And like you said, even if you don't get it you now officially speak the language :-)

 

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