BetterMost Community Blogs > My "Great White North"
Bitch, Bitch, Bitch
LauraGigs:
That's cool that you have a job interview so soon!! Awesome!
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on July 28, 2009, 02:19:28 pm ---That's cool that you have a job interview so soon!! Awesome!
--- End quote ---
Thanks all. I'm trying not to get nervous. They have testing and I haven't been through that in over 10 years.
LauraGigs:
Fun, fun.... ::)
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on July 28, 2009, 04:37:30 pm ---Fun, fun.... ::)
--- End quote ---
Good news and bad. The interview part went very well. It always does. My sister can't understand it, but apparently I come across in interviews as very professional, very intelligent and very charming. ;D
The reason the HR person was so keen on me is that out of the 4 test phases, I did well-to-excellent in 3 of them. I crashed and burned on testing in Word. But that was the HR person's fault. Her e-mail to me said the testing would include Word 2003 and Excel 2003.
No problemo. I used both at work and had Word 2003 at home.
Get to the testing center and bingo!!! Everything is from Office 2007. Word 2007 doesn't look anything like Word 2003.
I mentioned that to the HR person later and she was chagrined. She informed me that they just switched over to 2007 two weeks ago and she keeps forgetting to make that change when she talks to applicants. ::)
But she liked me so much - apparently - that she asked that I find a 2007 Word tutorial and come back within a week and retake just that part of the test.
I'm going to do just that, but I am less enthusiastic now. We spoke of salary - since the job openings said the salary was negotiable. But what they actually mean is that they're negotiable inside their company salary ranges.
I had my salary requirements and was willing to take a big cut. However the jobs that HR thinks I qualify for top out salary-wise even lower than my willingness to cut.
Not sure I want to try hard for a job whose maximum salary is less than the lowest salary I'm willing to accept. :-\
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Susie on July 30, 2009, 05:34:56 pm ---Well it doesn't hurt to update your skills to the new Microsoft Office. And it would be good for your self confidence to be offered the job and have the option of taking it or turning it down ... so I'd say go for it anyway ... then you can decide if and when they offer you the job.
Good luck!
Susie :)
--- End quote ---
Thanks Susie. You're right. Plus the HR person said since they're a state office, it's a long process for them to make a decision on a hire and that I'd probably have to come in for more interviews, etc. So I'll go ahead and make myself eligible and possibly in a few months, if nothing else comes up, I might be desperate enough to not want to move to take any offer that might come my way. What the state lacks in salary might be made up in benefits.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version