<p>been crazy busy. first batch of my employees are getting ready to graduate from training shortly… at their 90 day mark… it’s a bit bittersweet!!! We’re planning a bit of a ceremony to celebrate them leaving training and moving on to the real world… :)</p>
<p>i’m not sure what will happen to me after they “graduate”… if i get sent back where i came from, or if i move on and start helping another training group… logistics are still all up in the air… next few weeks should be very interesting!</p>
<p>i have an interview for another position at work next tuesday, so hopefully it goes well… it’s a two hour long interview… if I get that position then i move from training to their department… it would definitely be a good opportunity and i’m looking forward to it! I’m very curious what they are going to ask me that will take 2 hours! it’s a very interesting position and I would get to be creative in it, so hopefully things work out well!</p>
<p>That’s my guess also… I don’t know very much about this position at all. I interviewed for a different one not too long ago and (long story short) didn’t get the job but the man I interviewed with apparently liked me a lot. I had never even met him before. He called my boss and told me to apply for this job and that he was going to give the hiring manager a recommendation for me. I found that a bit odd considering I had only met him that one time during an interview… Apparently I made a good impression. Hopefully his recommendation (as well as my bosses) means something to the hiring manager. We’ll see!</p>
<p>Good luck & congrats! Sometimes folks can sense quality in you, even tho you don’t realize how much you project it. He may have also done some inquiring about you and found out more, as you’ve been with your company for some years and done an amazing job. I sure hope you get a promotion–you certainly deserve one!</p>
<p>Good luck. I’ve done that on several interviews. It’s really not that bad because people tend to ask the same questions (unless they have gotten together and divvied up the questions) so your answers get more refined as you go through the process.</p>
<p>Good luck Fendergirl…it’s so nice to hear from you every so often. Good luck with the interviews. It sounds like this company really likes and does not want to lose you. Please let us know what happens. My fingers are crossed for you.</p>
<p>Well, there’s NO downside at all here. You get the job - great! You don’t get the job, at least you’ve gotten one more interview under your belt and you still have a good job. Here’s hoping for whatever you want!</p>
<p>Good luck, fendergirl! Knock their socks off. :)</p>
<p>In my industry, it is not uncommon for an interview to last all day (sometimes that includes dinner with key employees). Our ships are so tiny, we need someone who would fit into our crew really well. As one of my co-workers said, it is like selecting a team member for one of the Apollo missions.</p>
<p>I think I nailed it, but who knows. We’ll see. I always feel that way! The first interview was kind of an informal meet and greet with the head of the department. He basically went over the job description and asked what questions I had. We chated for about a half hour… he asked me why I applied and how the job would fit in with my career goals, things of that nature. The second person was the one making the hiring decision, he’s the manager of the team i’d be working on. He told me that my resume stood out the most to him and that he was really looking forward to meeting me. He asked a lot of questions - projects that i’ve worked on, multi tasking, etc. He was really nice. In the end he asked me why I picked my college, which I found a bit odd… but we were chit chatting about it. The third interview was over the phone, I had to call someone who works in our other office. We called him and he wasn’t ready for us yet so we had about 5 minutes to kill so the guy asked me about my hobbies and we talked about photography and stuff like that. The third guy asked a few questions that were a bit repetitive of the other guy but in a slightly different way. I asked him a few questions and we laughed a lot. At the end of the interview he told me that I seem like a really good fit for the position and that he thought I interviewed very well and that he could tell I am a very candid person. He said he would be giving the feedback to the hiring manager (the 2nd one) and that I should hear in about a week or so.</p>
<p>I personally think i interview very well, so we’ll see. I guess it just depends how well everyone else inteviews as well. haha!</p>
<p>I did get another bit of surprising information. My boss asked me to call her this am so i did… she said that one of the managers in another department stopped by to see me but that I wasn’t there. I asked what it was in regards to and she said she wanted to tell me they were going to be having an opening for a position and that the posting will be going up in the next week or so but that she wanted to give me a heads up on it b/c she knew i was interviewing for other things and that she really wanted me to apply for it. I know that lady likes me a lot (i’ve known her since day 1 of working there) and I’m sure she’d hire me… but apparently the hours of that position would be 1-930 and I don’t think I’d be okay with that. Maybe a few days a week but not all 5. Who knows, maybe they are flexible on the hours.</p>
<p>also, one of the other managers in my department (whom was in my department before, left to go to another department for a year or so and now just transfered back) asked if she could shadow me on my regular job for a day and I said yes but that I didn’t have an available day till the 19th so if she wanted to shadow someone else in the mean time she could and she said no that’ sokay, I want you. That made me feel pretty darn good! </p>
<p>All in all, it’s a good day! My boss commended me for making a name for myself over the years.</p>
<p>Oh, congratulations! It’s always a great feeling to find you are appreciated and valued. Even if you don’t get <em>this</em> position, it sounds like you have great backups. It’s even better that your boss is supportive.</p>
<p>they didn’t mention anything about salary… I kind of wanted to bring it up but I didn’t want to turn them off because I’ve been told not to haggle money on a first interview… even though it was technically three of them… was that wrong of me?</p>
<p>^No, you did the right thing. The time to discuss money is after they offer you the job. Even when they ask you about your salary requirements in the interview, it’s better to be vague. You want them vested in hiring you first before negotiating the salary.</p>
<p>Agree with MomLive, you did well, fendergirl. Definitely best time to discuss money is AFTER you have job offer. They can easily find out how much you are making & have made since you’ve been with the company, as it’s the same company you’re hoping to get the in-house promotion with.</p>
<p>I can’t remember for sure but I think when I did my internal posting one of the questions was asking how much I make currently… Which I’m sure they have access to anyway since it’s internal… We’ll see what happens.</p>