Job stuff

[grysar]

Did my internship interview earlier today. Seemed to go fairly well, said they'd check my references and get back to me in a week or so. My references are strong, so I should be fine.

Although, all things considered, I should be better at these sort of interviews. I mean I'm not terrible, more so mediocre. And I have skills and value I just don't do a terrific job at getting that across. It's not a confidence thing, heck I worry about coming across as arrogant, I think I just need more practice. So think I'll take a few days before my next State oral and just work out all my answers, as I know the job interview type questions. Seems like a bloody boring thing to do, but it's worth the effort.

I should also put in a Peace Corps application sometime next week, takes about six months to process so it'll end a few months after the internship does, giving me some travel time in the interim. This is all somewhat disturbing to me, because it feels like my life, the non-social part of it, is coming together, and most of it isn't through real effort on my part. That just seems wrong.

Nonetheless, in about a month and a week I'm gonna have my damnable masterpiece, or I suppose bachelor piece, program done, on which I did _all_ the bloody programming. And it will be an effing great tool. There's something damn reassuring about knowing I'll have something I can always look back to with pride.

Comments

[insheepsclothng.livejournal.com]

Whee! Good luck! If you want, I will interview you for practice.

Funny: when I was working at Booz-Allen, my supervisor was the one who interviewed me. And one day I discovered a stack of paper on her desk -- print-outs on how to interview applicants! They had stuff highlighted, like what questions it's OK to ask and what questions not, and there was a lot of info. I guess she was as nervous about the interview as I was!

[shinuhana.livejournal.com]

My second interview is actually practice interviewing for the interviewer. My first interviewer will be there to make sure she does ok. It's part of her training for becoming upper management or something like that. Weird.