Job interview tomorrow. Nervous.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Advice is simple! Just be yourself. Show confidence. What ever you do dont be wearing 10 gallons of fvcking perfume. I dont think luck will help much, after all your not going to the casino. The most important is to look whoever you are talking to in the eye. A trick I learned when looking into the eyes of others is to just focus on one of their eyes. Have fun with it! Youll get the job Im sure of it.

[HannahP 119]

Didn't you already tell them you are in nursing school and that presents a time conflict of sorts? If so, are they to assume you're not serious about a career in nursing so to can get a $10/hr. student job?

Obviously, since I'm applying for a student position and those student positions only go to med or nursing students...I'm assuming that they understand that it's a student position where I work a max of 20 hours a week for $10 an hour. But I'm serious about getting THIS particular job and want to appear so. Will I still be there in two years? No, but neither will anyone else that they hire.

Can't really skip a two year period of your work history if it was only two years ago. I'm assuming you weren't the CEO so it's not your fault. A lot of people have worked at places that were screwed up and maybe it was a learning experience.

Just wondering if it matters because X company is not relevant to my current job application. I'm more worried about putting it on a job app & having them say "OMG SHE WAS STEALING FROM US!" (I wasn't) if someone were to call. Because that would obviously look worse than having a chunk of non-job experience where I could at least say that I was going to school full-time.

[The_Dude 1,142]

Just wondering if it matters because X company is not relevant to my current job application. I'm more worried about putting it on a job app & having them say "OMG SHE WAS STEALING FROM US!" (I wasn't) if someone were to call. Because that would obviously look worse than having a chunk of non-job experience where I could at least say that I was going to school full-time.

If this were like 7-8 years ago, yeah, you could skip it, but 07-08 is considered current work experience and it would look bad if you did not include it.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

My advice would be that you bring a "full resume." However, you don't have just one resume. You can and should write a resume for a specific job. You focus on the experience and skills that are relevant to the job and gloss over skills and work experience that are tangential. The resume that you wrote before may focus on nursing and CNA. So write a resume with this job in mind.

Exactly!

When I screen candidates for jobs, looking at a resume that starts out with an objective and lists experience that has nothing to do with the job the candidate applied for is a huge turn-off. If a candidate can't be bothered to submit a resume that highlights relevant experience and at least makes me believe that the candidate is interested to work in the field and type of position I am hiring for then I wonder if that candidate can be bothered to actually do a good job.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Oh, and I would wear the suit, being appropriately over dressed is better than being under dressed in my opinion.(Do not go for the long ball gown ) Good luck

I agree.

[redglasses 1]

Nothing wrong with dressing nice in my opinion.

Wish you luck tomorrow and let us know how it went :-)

[HannahP 119]

Weird interview, in my opinion. Got a 45 minute lecture on the more cerebral parts of my hypothetical future job, plus a thirty minute tour of the entire place. Then I was introduced to my two hypothetical future supervisors.

I think my availability, which really isn't the best, might kill me. Although it's a student position and if they're looking for other nursing students -- we all have the same availability, since we all take the same classes.

I dunno, really. :/ I did send a quick follow-up email this morning thanking her for taking the time to interview me, etc. She actually did open up an entire avenue re. RN careers that we're not really taught about in school in regards to nurses in research settings which I am interested in, kinda being a science geek like that. (All of which I explained to her both during the interview and in my follow-up email.)

But my hubby was just promoted to a salaried position that probably adds another 1/3 to whatever he was making before. I'd love to have this job, but at least it's not as necessary as before.

Thanks, everyone.

[Peikko 1,575]

Thanks for the update Good luck.

[Fandango 1,439]

Not "advices," advice.

I think Nessa was just being cute to the OP, who wrote 'advices' in the title.

Good luck, Hannah!

[HannahP 119]

Thanks for all the advice(s) and support guys!

I GOT THE JOB! Wootwoot.

[Otto 83]

I GOT THE JOB! Wootwoot.

[Nessa 23]

Not "advices," advice.

she asked for advices and I said no advices would be given.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Thanks for all the advice(s) and support guys!

I GOT THE JOB! Wootwoot.

Sweeeeeeeeet!!!!!

[alienlovechild 75]

Thanks for all the advice(s) and support guys!

I GOT THE JOB! Wootwoot.

It turns out the other job candidates had more reason to be nervous than you. Just curious and testng out my theory below- how many other interviews did you have to go to before landing the job? I'm assuming you didn't have to sit through more than 3 interviews.

I find rhe people who need the job the most tend to be the least likely to be hired. If they were that good they'd be hired more quickly than the more desperate less qualified candidates.

[HannahP 119]

It turns out the other job candidates had more reason to be nervous than you. Just curious and testng out my theory below- how many other interviews did you have to go to before landing the job? I'm assuming you didn't have to sit through more than 3 interviews.

I find rhe people who need the job the most tend to be the least likely to be hired. If they were that good they'd be hired more quickly than the more desperate less qualified candidates.

Um, what?

I had one interview. This is for a student job where you make, at most, $10 an hour and work 20 hours a week max.

In case you forgot, let me reiterate, this is for a student job. I'm hired for the summer semester. Probably because I have actual lab experience, plus an interest in being a research RN.