Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Post-interview report

Well, I think the interview at the public library branch went pretty well yesterday. Then again, I always seem to think that. Seriously, how do you know when an interview doesn't go well? They aren't going to ask you to leave before it's over or anything obvious like that.

One minor annoyance, if you can call it that, was that they seemed to be asking me the same questions over and over in different ways. "Tell me about a time when you overcame a difficult situation at work and what happened." "Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a challenging situation and how it was resolved." "Tell me about a time when you had trouble working in a group." "Tell me about a time when you faced some miscommunication with a co-worker and how you resolved it." "Tell me about a time when you corrected someone else's mistake and how you handled it." I don't know but aren't all those questions basically the same?
The one good thing is that as I was leaving I saw someone I used to work with and he apparently works there and has for two years. He really likes it there so that's somewhat encouraging. We talked a little bit about the things we both didn't like at our old job and how this one is different (quite different, it seems). On top of all that, maybe he'll actually put in a good word for me!

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