Jobs Applied For: 11 (two day total)
Interviews Currently Scheduled: 2 (different ones than previously listed)
GRE Work: Paper work shipped out to NJ!!! Studying begins post-blogging.
Music Practice: None...yet.
These past two days have been very busy as far as the job search portion of this blog is concerned. I have been going back and forth in between home and the given interview of the day in NYC. At least I can say I have been offered many interviews, which is more than I could say when this job search began two months ago. However, some of these interviews have not been the best...like the one I went to yesterday evening.
I had set up an interview with a laid back photography company last week after they contacted me with positive remarks about my resume. I was feeling a calm excitement about this one because I felt confident that the position was mine. As I was leaving for the train station with a confident smile on my face, I grabbed a bottle of blueberry iced tea (trust me, this is relevant) and I was out the door. One hour later as I'm walking from the train platform into the grand concourse in Grand Central, I feel a sudden dripping on my foot. My bottle of sweet refreshment had ruptured in my bag and leaked all over my blazer and my resume. Of course it did.
Thank god for the Xcelerator hand dryers in the Grand Central bathrooms.
15 minutes after standing under the dryer, I was on my way with a dry resume and a somewhat damp blazer. I walked into that interview with confidence smelling of blueberry tea. The interview itself went ok (aside from the fact that I was preaching about how I'm such a creative person and my interviewer interrupts me to state that the position is at least 65% clerical.) But the tea spill of 2011 shattered my cockiness and humbled me.
If I have learned anything from this experience, it would be to never carry a plastic water bottle (or tea bottle) in the same bag as important documents and interview apparel. It would also be to portray yourself as a well rounded person, as oppose to purely creative. But I'm sure that lesson will come up again throughout the duration of this blog.
Interviews Currently Scheduled: 2 (different ones than previously listed)
GRE Work: Paper work shipped out to NJ!!! Studying begins post-blogging.
Music Practice: None...yet.
These past two days have been very busy as far as the job search portion of this blog is concerned. I have been going back and forth in between home and the given interview of the day in NYC. At least I can say I have been offered many interviews, which is more than I could say when this job search began two months ago. However, some of these interviews have not been the best...like the one I went to yesterday evening.
I had set up an interview with a laid back photography company last week after they contacted me with positive remarks about my resume. I was feeling a calm excitement about this one because I felt confident that the position was mine. As I was leaving for the train station with a confident smile on my face, I grabbed a bottle of blueberry iced tea (trust me, this is relevant) and I was out the door. One hour later as I'm walking from the train platform into the grand concourse in Grand Central, I feel a sudden dripping on my foot. My bottle of sweet refreshment had ruptured in my bag and leaked all over my blazer and my resume. Of course it did.
Thank god for the Xcelerator hand dryers in the Grand Central bathrooms.
15 minutes after standing under the dryer, I was on my way with a dry resume and a somewhat damp blazer. I walked into that interview with confidence smelling of blueberry tea. The interview itself went ok (aside from the fact that I was preaching about how I'm such a creative person and my interviewer interrupts me to state that the position is at least 65% clerical.) But the tea spill of 2011 shattered my cockiness and humbled me.
If I have learned anything from this experience, it would be to never carry a plastic water bottle (or tea bottle) in the same bag as important documents and interview apparel. It would also be to portray yourself as a well rounded person, as oppose to purely creative. But I'm sure that lesson will come up again throughout the duration of this blog.
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