Job Interviews...
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:58 am
Ok I am not exactly Mad or really even all that upset.. just feeling a little flat after a Job interview and feel the need to vent some of my feelings out.
I am usually pretty good at job interviews and havent actually found them all that nerve wracking.
But alas i had a job interview today.. and for some reason I found myself very nervous and for once I dont feel all that confident about how it went. Normally I find once I have an interview I can safely say I have the hard stuff done and it is an easy thing from there to get the job. But NOT this time.
I left my last job for some R&R and to nurse myself back to health after a rather spectacular melt down (anxiety attack) and have currently just been keeping myself in the working force with one day a week (working in a burger joint/cafe). I am not sure if it is this big step that has made me somewhat nervous, but I found I was a mass of nerves this morning and as the interview progressed (it was a 4 hour long, group interview of 9 hopefuls) the more I became unsettled.
During the interview I had to give a speech to the group on a topic that was up to me. Usually i wouldnt have a problem with that at all, since most of my jobs in the past have involved me having to give speeches of some sort or another, but this time round my hands were shaking and I found my thoughts wandering all over the place while trying to talk about the subject i chose. I still really have no idea what i blabbered on about but I do know I said umm about a dozen or more time in a short few minutes.
After I finished my speech I felt like I had totally blown the interview, but I was lucky enough to get a glance at one of the sheets that a interviewer was writing notes on and next to my name it said a good clear strong voice. So there may be hope for me yet?
By the way the interview was for a job as a tour guide.
Anyway fingers crossed.. i wont find out until next week sometime as to if i have made it to the second round interviews. Thank god that interview wont be group orientated.
Cheers and thanks for phoneamommy for providing a place for me to vent emotions and to help me organise my thoughts.
I am usually pretty good at job interviews and havent actually found them all that nerve wracking.
But alas i had a job interview today.. and for some reason I found myself very nervous and for once I dont feel all that confident about how it went. Normally I find once I have an interview I can safely say I have the hard stuff done and it is an easy thing from there to get the job. But NOT this time.
I left my last job for some R&R and to nurse myself back to health after a rather spectacular melt down (anxiety attack) and have currently just been keeping myself in the working force with one day a week (working in a burger joint/cafe). I am not sure if it is this big step that has made me somewhat nervous, but I found I was a mass of nerves this morning and as the interview progressed (it was a 4 hour long, group interview of 9 hopefuls) the more I became unsettled.
During the interview I had to give a speech to the group on a topic that was up to me. Usually i wouldnt have a problem with that at all, since most of my jobs in the past have involved me having to give speeches of some sort or another, but this time round my hands were shaking and I found my thoughts wandering all over the place while trying to talk about the subject i chose. I still really have no idea what i blabbered on about but I do know I said umm about a dozen or more time in a short few minutes.
After I finished my speech I felt like I had totally blown the interview, but I was lucky enough to get a glance at one of the sheets that a interviewer was writing notes on and next to my name it said a good clear strong voice. So there may be hope for me yet?
By the way the interview was for a job as a tour guide.
Anyway fingers crossed.. i wont find out until next week sometime as to if i have made it to the second round interviews. Thank god that interview wont be group orientated.
Cheers and thanks for phoneamommy for providing a place for me to vent emotions and to help me organise my thoughts.