Cultivating Genuineness, Upcoming Interview (yet again), and a Random Political Rant About Vacations
Got back from our vacation earlier in the week. It was such a fantastic experience for my boys, and I had a great AND relaxing time. First vacation in I don't even know how long. I definitely feel re-energized. I now better understand the value of vacation time and actually using vacation time for...vacations (as a single parent of twins, I often have to use vacation time to cover my kids sick days). It's a shame there is a movement underway to undermine that, to eliminate vacation time for the working class and sort or re-frame time off as yet another example of the lazy, mooching, socialist class. What assholes. Self-serving bullshit. Fuck them and their aristocrat overlords.
End semi-political rant.
My interview has finally been scheduled! Early this week! Spending the weekend prepping. Excited and nervous, but mostly excited right now. I'm sure the nervousness will kick in more later. But I have become a pretty good interviewer. I just have to re-tap into those skills I haven't used for about a year, as well as the mindset. I'm getting there. Been working up to it since I applied. Now I am going to ramp it up. Besides practice and rehearsing responses, one of the best things to do on an interview is to be...yourself. And to believe in yourself. Tailor your interview to your audience, of course, just like an argument (and an interview really is an argument you're crafting to convince others why you are the best fit for the position), but you also have to be you...that draws people in more, in a lot of ways, that what you actually say. The committee will either like me and feel I am a good fit or they won't. That I cannot control. So you have to focus on the things you can control and let go and even forget about the rest.
Sounds easy, but it's not. It's a skill to hone and cultivate.
Developing my strengths and "weaknesses", other general responses, and whatnot I plan to discuss now. Ultimately, I feel pretty confident I will get the position. But that is a danger too. I don't want to be overly confident, and I don't want to slack on preparation. So I am working to stay mindful of that as well.
End semi-political rant.
My interview has finally been scheduled! Early this week! Spending the weekend prepping. Excited and nervous, but mostly excited right now. I'm sure the nervousness will kick in more later. But I have become a pretty good interviewer. I just have to re-tap into those skills I haven't used for about a year, as well as the mindset. I'm getting there. Been working up to it since I applied. Now I am going to ramp it up. Besides practice and rehearsing responses, one of the best things to do on an interview is to be...yourself. And to believe in yourself. Tailor your interview to your audience, of course, just like an argument (and an interview really is an argument you're crafting to convince others why you are the best fit for the position), but you also have to be you...that draws people in more, in a lot of ways, that what you actually say. The committee will either like me and feel I am a good fit or they won't. That I cannot control. So you have to focus on the things you can control and let go and even forget about the rest.
Sounds easy, but it's not. It's a skill to hone and cultivate.
Developing my strengths and "weaknesses", other general responses, and whatnot I plan to discuss now. Ultimately, I feel pretty confident I will get the position. But that is a danger too. I don't want to be overly confident, and I don't want to slack on preparation. So I am working to stay mindful of that as well.
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