Job interview today

As someone who gets a touch of performance anxiety it surprises me that job interviews have never really phased me. I guess there is the simple fact that you’re halfway there anyway, having been asked in after they’ve already checked you out from your resume. I think it is important to present well of course, but just as important to be yourself. Silly to try and pretend to be someone you’re not.

I always seem to have done ok in interviews, even when I thought things hadn’t gone particularly well. Hospice is a perfect example of that – I walked out thinking I didn’t have a chance, I felt like a square peg trying to fit a round hole. Then had the shock of my life a couple of days later when they phoned to offer me the job. Then there was the interview at the uni a few years ago, where they phoned to tell me they didn’t think I’d be suitable for the web developer job, but offered me a job in admin instead (in hindsight it is a shame I was so determined to work as a web designer back then!)

Today’s interview was a little different. I guess I was a bit more anxious to make a good impression, since the job was at the parish office of my church. I was still a little bit shaken from a dog attack incident earlier this morning (not serious – just woke some bad memories of when poor Kel was mauled). I walked out wishing I’d put more thought into some of my answers. The interview only went for 30 minutes, and poor Father was getting fidgetty towards the end of it (he was one of a panel of three). Since the job starts on Monday I guess I’ll know the outcome pretty soon.

There isn’t a terrible lot riding on me getting this job. I have two other applications I’m fairly confident of. There was some interest in my web publishing skills so regardless of the outcome, I’ve offered to help build the parish web site if one is wanted.