Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

KajiKita

Fair enough, no prep tonight 😊

Do you know why the last interview didn’t go the way you wanted it to?

KK

rtandon27

Pasta and crochet sounds like the perfect plan for this evening!

greenbee

Congratulations! 

Jessy103

Well done cheery. You got this 💪 x

MisterPym

Cheery_Daff said:

Thank you all! I am very excited (and also slightly terrified 😂) Feeling good about it though. I've only ever had three interviews for 'big' jobs - got two of them, but the last one (2 years ago) I wasn't happy with my performance at all 😬 so lots of prep required.

Not tonight though. Tonight I am doing pasta and crochet 😁

Well done,good luck.

Cheery_Daff

KajiKita said:

Fair enough, no prep tonight 😊

Do you know why the last interview didn’t go the way you wanted it to?

KK

Thank you all! 😁

I wasn't prepared. I very much felt like I was stretching just applying for it, so I felt like a major imposter to get an interview. So I put off and put off doing my presentation, fretting about everything that could go wrong 🙄 ended up staying up til 3am the night before trying to finish everything, and by that point I'd wound myself into such a frenzy and felt like such an idiot for leaving everything so late, that I was proper down on myself going in, on top of being SO tired. 

It wasn't an embarrassment, but I certainly didn't come out feeling like I'd done my best (they only interviewed one other person, and as it happened, they didn't hire either of us 🙄). Only got brief feedback (and then only after pushing for it) - one bit was fair enough (about the subject matter of my work, which didn't quite fit entirely with theirs), and they also said 'we didn't feel you were quite ready for a senior leadership post' 😬

I've carried that round for the last couple of years - both my stupid fretting making me badly prepared, and the 'you're not ready' feedback. But that was 2 years ago, I have a VERY different feeling about this, and I am practicing my power poses and getting all the help I can 😁 So all fingers crossed.

And, after all, I've only had three interviews in the last fifteen years - and I got the job out of the other two, so I do have quite a high overall success rate 😂

teapot2

I am imagining you crocheting with pasta, presumably linguine or spaghetti?🍝🧶

Cheery_Daff

teapot2 said:

I am imagining you crocheting with pasta, presumably linguine or spaghetti?🍝🧶

😂😂😂 Ha, that would indeed be excellent 😂

KajiKita

Ah, it sounds like you have understood and have resolved (or are resolving) all the blockers that were present for the unsuccessful interview then 😊
We have faith in you - you just have to go in and give the best account of yourself, sometimes that will fit (sounds very likely here) sometimes it won’t. And as you say you have a 66% hit rate! 😉👏😊

KK

Fortune_Smiles

That is excellent news Cheery - good luck!

Fortune x