Bad Job Interview
August 31st, 2007, 02:13 pm
I should have known from the start when we setup the interview through emails and there was a nice message at the bottom of his messages saying it was sent from his iPhone. Also when we agreed on a time he didn’t even give me a website, address or anything so that I would know where it was at. I had to send him an email to confirm what company it was for. He told me to grab the information off of the website.
I dress up nice, slacks and a tie. I was very interested in this job so I wanted to make an impression.
I get there early. The guy interviewing me doesn’t even shake my hand when I get there. I’m already nervous but now I feel even more uncomfortable. When we are walking to their conference room he looks me over and says “hmm”. I overdressed. He is wearing shorts and sandals. The environment seemed very relaxed there and almost like they didn’t take a whole lot seriously. I should have guessed this by his use of the word “cool” in his emails to me.
We start talking about HTML and things like that. I’m nervous and choke on some things but I was getting more relaxed as we kept talking. About ten minutes into it he asks if I’m still in school. I reply yes even though I’m not going this semester. I plan on going next semester though. He then decides that I need and want a part time job and promptly ends the interview. I’m sitting there shocked. Here he is deciding that I need a part time job when what I really want is a full time job.
So pretty much it was a waste of time. He is deciding for me what I want and I highly doubt I’ll be getting the job since I was only with the guy for maybe ten minutes. I don’t even think he looked at my resume which I sent in my initial email in response to the job posting. He would have known I was in school if he would have read it. I wish he would have been screened me more before wasting time for both of us.
Oh well. I’ll keep sending my resume out to different places and hopefully I’ll find something.
