Interview Update

My interviews on Wednesday went ok.

The first one was a little daunting. It was a panel interview with me sitting at the front of what looked like a classroom with four people sitting across from me and questioning me. I was way more nervous than normal but I think it went ok other than that. I always feel bad when I don't have any questions to ask because I know I think the interviewers think that I don't care about the job or the organization. It's just that I go into an interview trying to anticipate the questions that will be asked and there's little room left in my brain to think of any questions for me to ask.

The second thing we went to was a mass hire event for a store that is opening soon in Jacksonville. Both Matthew and I went to complete applications and we were there for 2 hours. We both went through multiple interviews and were drug tested and we felt pretty positive about the experience over all (especially Matthew). Now, it's just wait and see.

As a side note to that event, I've never taken an oral drug test before. Normally, I've had to submit to a urinalysis, but this place gave you a little swab to hold inside your mouth, against your cheek, for a couple of minutes and then you put it into a liquid-filled vial and that was that. Much more pleasant for the HR person that was doing the collections than a urinalysis, I'm sure.

Anyway, yesterday, I got a call from a place I had applied to in Jacksonville for an HR job that I felt was way out of my league (based on the pay scale and the title). I'd only applied because my grandmother had seen it in the newspaper and I knew I'd never hear the end of it if I didn't apply. Well, I now have an interview with them on Tuesday afternoon and I'm still a little stunned by it. I'm refusing to let myself get excited about it or think about it too hard but...whoa!