Posted by Racer on March 3, 2004, at 10:56:21
In reply to Re: Damn I hate the waiting... » Racer, posted by NikkiT2 on March 3, 2004, at 8:58:59
I don't know if anything like this exists Over There, but there's a great organization in San Francisco called Alumnai Resources. It's all about career advancement, for women, and they have groups that meet to practice interviewing skills. They bring in Mentors from the outside to help by conducting the kinds of interviews they use, and the whole process is videotaped so that everyone can discuss it later. It sounds so intimidating, but it's really not. Sure, every so often you get someone in a group with an attitude problem, but mostly it's about suggesting positive alternatives to help you strengthen your skills. It took me forever to find out about them, by the way, so look hard to find something similar.
By the way, interviewing is stressful by its very nature. For one thing, the skills needed for interviewing are useful for sales and a couple of other positions, but for most positions it's a case of "show that you have skills that your position does not require, and that we're not really hiring you to have." Does that make sense? I mean, someone whose job will involved, say, maintaining a mainframe in a room virtually no one else enters for days on end, is not a person you want to have that easy, outgoing personality that might make it hard to be alone so long. Some HR people recognise that, and adjust accordingly, but most people conducting interviews really don't know what they're doing. Makes it a hell of a lot harder for those of us on the other side of the desk.
(I know, but I'm not good at just saying, "Hey, Nikki, {{cuddles}} and you'll do fine, even if they're not insightful enough to see it." My best wishes are with you, though.)
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