Maybe McDonald's Is Hiring ...

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Y’all, I have no damn clue how that interview went.

I think I did all right, but I keep seesawing between that and thinking of the dumb shit that must have come out of my mouth at some point. I am completely at a loss in judging the reactions Nice Reserved Ladies have to whatever garbage I spew out in response to useless questions like “Describe your weaknesses.” (“Sometimes I work too hard and can be too much of a perfectionist! Ha ha!”)*

If only job interviews were more like internet memes. Ask me about cake vs. pie and I will be ready to defend my position with logic, rhetoric, sources, examples, and even dry-erase board illustrations. Come up with the wacky hijinks of Sherlock Holmes and the Phantom of the Opera? I could get you an elaborate scenario in a minute flat! But ask me to “provide examples of your creative problem solving,” and all I can think is “Durr, I can stack up boxes until I reach the banana.”**

Well, if I just blew this interview, at least my supervisor has offered me a consolation job boost. (Ooh, FIFTEEN hours a week! Hooray …) Still … woulda been nice.


*Damn it, I should have said I have trouble integrating my efforts with other people’s and require a lot of communication. Oh, well, next job interview, I guess.

**“And one time I totally figured out how to open a jar to get at the delicious candy inside! The secret is twisting.”

Comments

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

After my whole school-related breakdown I suspect my answer to that question is "I have a hard time saying no to new projects, so I take too much on and refuse to ask for help because I'm too much of a perfectionist and hate relying on other people. And then I collapse and die."

Um. Yeah. Not the most confidence-inspiring thing.


I hate job interviews.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's definitely got to be something that is a flaw, but not a flaw that might interfere with productivity. ("Sometimes I burst into tears for no reason at all!")

And yeah, I really hate relying on other people. FOR GOOD REASON. I learned that from group projects in high school.

I had this running joke for a while with my brother where we'd ask to proofread each other's query e-mails--"Hey, dude, can you check this and make sure I didn't accidentally write "Fuck you" in the middle of this letter of inquiry?"

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

Query/Cover letters are the other thing that really freaks me out. So much so that when I was ordered to apply for a job (by a former professor/friend) yesterday, and didn't manage to finish the cover letter by the time I saw her, she sat down and wrote most of it for me.

It is all perfectly reasonable stuff that I might write myself, I just couldn't WRITE it, or not without horrendous agony. I need to make a template or something.

And I've been putting off writing a "So have you hired someone for this job and just not bothered to tell anyone else who interviewed for it?" email for WEEKS.

Bluh.

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

Send a thank you note for the interviewer's time, and add in the note that you're still available for that job or any related one for which you may be qualified. Sometimes it's a test to make sure you're REALLY interested. And sometimes they're just twits with the attention span of a hamster.