Find a good job

Interview was OK although I think I may have suffered from a case of verbal diarrhea towards the end. oh well. I’ll know for sure in 2 weeks. I remember the first interviews I had, and those didn’t go well because I didn’t know how to prepare. It’s all so different now. I was alot more confident, I spent alot of time reflecting on my past experiences to be sure I could recreate scenarios in case they asked. It was all good, although I wish they had offered me a meal. Onsite interview with no meal sucks!

I gotta get cracking on those thank you letters too.

I have an on-site interview net week. I’m a little scared, I hope I do well.

I think I have my first interview tomorrow, to discuss my qualifications. I’m nervous but I really don’t know how to prepare. I don’t want to get my hopes up because I suck so bad at interviews but I feel alot more confident that I am employable. I just have to start working on my interview skills – I didn’t expect this too happen so soon after I applied.

Documentation. I now have 2 critiqued resume. One is more of a CV with my entire job history, and one is targeted to quality assurance. Next, and possible one of the hardest part of this whole process for me, is to write a good cover letter. I have really good templates but for some reason I cannot translate the template into a good document. So my career services counselor is going over my current letter to make suggestions.

I went to career services today and I am now on my way to completing the 10 steps to finding and accepting a job. The session was very informative and now I have a few more reseources to help with the search. I feel I’m a little more targetted about the location (I’m thinking around boston, I like the scene there and it’s close enough to NYC and toronto) and we settled on what I might want to do, R&D in biotech or pharma, or QA&C.

Long distance job searches are frustrating. Managers are usually not very willing to fund the trip to interview, I’m broke as all hell so going myself is not an option and the biggest problem, I really have no clue what I want to do with myself. Well not no clue, it’s just that the clue is telling me I’m in the wrong field looking for jobs I’m sure to hate. What does one do in this situation? Get even more frustrated at being an idiot for the past 10 or so years, wasting time doing things that don’t suit my personality or interests.

1. Finish editing CV and cover letter