Thursday 14 January 2010 - What's wrong with me? Where were you brain? Frick I suck |
I've noticed a fairly annoying trend to do with me and interviews and more specificially how if it's a job I really want I give an embarrassingly bad interview. I have had good interviews, brilliant interviews but when it's something I really really want for some reason, my brain says 'Nah, not happening, screeeeeeeeeeeeew you'.
I had one of these recently. My mind went blank and I mean totally blank, if I'd been asked my address I would not have been able to give it. I believe at one point I may have actually been sitting there with my mouth open drooling on myself. It wasn't quite the image I was hoping for.
I was embarrassed to be me and embarrased for the people trying to interview me as I responded with 'me......test......me test....eeeer....me tester'
I think that I over think these things and I actually, for some stupid reason decided that it would be a good idea to re-read a book, learn a new tool, learn abit more about another tool, read up on a few other things, all within a couple of days ontop of normal work and life matters. It didn't work, everything went straight out of my head. After the interview I spent the rest of the day and night gritting my teeth and getting a stress headache.
Yet on the way home, I stopped off to catch up with a mate and actually spent a little bit of time telling him about the new tool, everything that I couldn't remember in the interview, all the cool things this tool does, I could sit there and talk about it. 20minutes earlier, nothing, nada.
So, I'm not somebody who you would want interview advice from but I'm going to give it anyway. If you have an interview, don't cram, you know your stuff, just let it come out naturally.
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