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Update on the Nibble

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Unlike the major­ity of Amer­cians, I did not head back to the office after the Memo­r­ial day week­end. Well, not back to my office any­ways. Instead, I whipped out my inter­view suit¹ and went to a job inter­view. It was a really good thing that I left early to get there as I got slightly lost. I stopped at a cof­fee shop and got direc­tions. Yes ladies, men can and will ask for direc­tions when we know we’re lost².

After get­ting the direc­tions sorted out (I missed over­shot the street I needed to turn onto by 1 block), I arrived at the company’s office³. The build­ing looked sur­pris­ingly new, though it was a bit warm inside. Though that could have been a com­bi­na­tion of me being ner­vous and me hav­ing “suited up”. I had to fill out some paper­work (boil­er­plate HR back­ground check autho­riza­tion forms) and then waited a bit for my inter­view. Shortly, my inter­viewer showed up and took me back to his office. We went over my resume a bit, though it turned out his copy of my resume was miss­ing the infor­ma­tion about me being a UofI grad­u­ate. For­tu­nately, I had pre­pared for that even­tu­al­ity by hav­ing mul­ti­ple copies of my most cur­rent and most generic⁴ and I gave one of these copies to him. We dis­cussed what sorts of things I do for my cur­rent employer, what I did dur­ing my col­lege days and so forth.

But we also got off topic sev­eral times dicussing a vari­ety of side issues: my Japan trip, Mind­bridge, work­ing for com­pa­nies who close their local offices, being a non-traditional col­lege stu­dent and so on. While I do not have an over­bu­dence of inter­views under my belt; this one felt like it went extremely well. I really felt like I made a con­nec­tion with the inter­viewer⁵. As it turns out, the com­pany is look­ing for 1 per­son for their com­puter oper­a­tions depart­ment and 1 for their data ware­house. Accord­ing the inter­viewer, the oper­a­tions posi­tion is a bit lower than what I’m really look­ing for in a start­ing salary but he thinks I could be a good fit for the other posi­tion as well. He went on to say the com­pany really needs to get these posi­tions filled quickly before their busy sea­son hits and I should hear some­thing back in a cou­ple of weeks.

Since the inter­view went so well and the only rea­son I was on time for it was the help­ful cof­fee shop; I went back to have myself a lit­tle snack⁶. The shop is called the “Cof­fee Talk Cafe”. When I got there after my inter­view, the only peo­ple in it were the staff. The lady behind the counter was very friendly and we chat­ted for a bit. She wished me all kinds of good luck on my inter­view, while she rang me up. I got a tof­fee nut latte and a orange/pineapple muf­fin. I ate in the shop and so they nuked up the muf­fin, putting a lit­tle but­ter on top. It was divine. Yum, yum. *smile* It took them a lit­tle bit to make the latte and when the lady brought it over we chat­ted a bit more. Appar­ently, I resem­ble the lady’s brother and in my suit look very “professor-ish”. I left a lit­tle bit after that and am now home chill­ing out. I’ll br brows­ing the online want ads in a lit­tle bit (look­ing for other nib­bles) but right now I feel really good about today and the inter­view I had.

¹ Okay, it’s really my only suit.
² We just don’t think we’re as lost as you think we do.
³ Per my long stand­ing habit, I will not be dis­cussing who they were.
⁴ Given time and avail­able brain­power, I pre­fer to cus­tomize my resume for the com­pany & job I am apply­ing for.
⁵ Did I men­tion this per­son is also the hir­ing man­ager? Oh well if I hadn’t yet; I have now.
⁶ To be pre­fectly hon­est, this was my break­fast. I was feel­ing too ner­vous prior to the inter­view to want to eat anything.

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