In those years I have finished college, gone to university, dropped out, been unemployed, gotten a job..gone back to university...graduated (Yayyy) and gotten another job. Went through a faze of uncertainty. Unemployed again and that;s where we are now. What a crazy 7 years and I like that little parts of that are recorded on here so that when I am feeling all sentimental I can look back to where I was.
So, with all that said I just wanted to come on here and talk about my two interviews.
Basically, where I am at now is I want an accounting job and I will become a qualified accountant, through wind and fire. Bring it on, I am ready. So, I re-did my CV and it looks really good now. I have been applying regularly and I was applying to accounts assistant roles and finance admin roles.
So I was just applying to anything and I got a response from a nursery that wanted a finance administrator. I got a call, was asked a few questions and then I had an interview on Monday. When looking back at the job advert, I realised that it was part time, and I don't know about that. But I was still optimistic in the fact that it would be relevant experience. When I got there I got the impression that it was more admin than actual financial side of things. But they did give me a practical exercise of doing a letter and adding things into an excel sheet. I tried my best with the whole letter part but I will practice that in the future because I don't think it was perfect. I also don't know why I didn't practice it before because I remember someone before mentioning that they had an interview at a small place and were asked to write a letter. So, I will practice that because I know it will come up again in the future.
The second interview was with a finance controller for an project administrator role....To be honest, I repeatedly looked through the job role but when he was explaining what the role actually was, it was completely different, I am not going to lie, I messed up by even applying to both jobs because they really are not what I was looking for. But I do have to say that I am glad I went to the interviews because it was good experience. I have already written down the questions they asked, the answers I gave and what answers would have been better. I don't believe future interview will be that different.
So, in the end I am not that sad or sad at all, I am actually relieved because I did not want to make the choice of taking or leaving the job offered to me because I am still unemployed. But now that I have been rejected (also with the second interview, he mentioned a few people were leaving so red flags were going off in my mind because why are all these people leaving??? huh?)
But as I was saying, its good they rejected me, I got an email this morning and they liked my answers but they went with someone better. I just replied saying thank you for considering me, good luck to the company. It felt good to leave/ end the process on a positive note because you never really know what the future will be like, I might end up connecting with that company or people in future somehow so I am glad on my part it all ended positively and I am going to take everything that I have learnt and improve my interview techniques. Because there is still room for improvement.
I am going to be more aware of the jobs that I apply to.
So, this is an interesting start to 2018. Hopefully, fingers crossed, I will get a job in the accounting industry.
