Interviewing Hell
September 09, 2004
Have you ever felt like you are in interviewing hell? Like it is going so poorly that perhaps one more step down the ringer could land you in a pit of fire?
I had an interview yesterday morning that was technically my third interview for a position in which I am REALLY interested. I am generally confident in interviews, I can answer questions with ease, I enjoy talking with people and meeting new people. But THIS interview was completely different. Instead of answering a long series of questions, I was put to the test of enduring my interviewER giving an enormously long list of the job responsibilities.
#1, I was amazed that the interviewer actually knew that all these job responsibilities existed. Usually they are clueless as to what the job really entails.
#2, I was thankful that the interviewer was able to give me an accurate description of the job, because it only made it more clear in my mind that I would love to be offered this position.
So after this "interview" (really it seemed like an info session), I just went home and thought about it all day long. Is this normal? Was the purpose of the meeting actually to not be an interview, but really to allow the person managing this position to meet me and inform me of the job details? Why did I not feel a "connection?" Normally when I leave an interview, I feel either really confident that it will be offered to me, or else I feel sure that it won't be.
Instead, I just left confused. And it wasn't only this interview. I felt the same way when I left the 2nd interview with this corporation.
Maybe that's a bad sign, afterall. If I can't make a connection with the people with whom I'll be working, what's to say I'll ever make that connection if I'm eventually offered the position?
