{"id":652,"date":"2008-03-05T07:53:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T14:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/on-telephones-and-interviews\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T07:53:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T14:53:49","slug":"on-telephones-and-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2008\/03\/05\/on-telephones-and-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"On Telephones and Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a telephone interview last night &#8211; my first &#8211; and I think it went <em>pretty<\/em> well.  Being out of the interview habit, and completely out of the telephone interview habit, I was a little rusty, and they asked me things I wasn&#8217;t as prepared for as I might have hoped.  All the same, I feel like I presented myself pretty well, and I&#8217;m remaining optimistic.  It&#8217;s important to focus on the positive selling points I made, rather than worry about the silly blunders.  If everything goes well, I&#8217;ll progress one rung up on the applicant ladder; the next step being an interview with the Washington State Secretary of State.  I don&#8217;t know if that would be on the phone or in person, but it sounds like an interesting experience either way.<\/p>\n<p>The questions they asked were very job-specific.  Did I have any experience working with virtual reference?  <em>A little<\/em>.  What experience did I have working with electronic database vendors?  <em>None, though some corollary experiences to share<\/em>.  What experience did I have as a go-between for customers and database vendors?  <em>Yikes, another corollary answer<\/em>.  I&#8217;m just a young future-librarian, yet, full of experiences I can use to relate to these experiences, but all the same with very little experience in what it means to be a real, professional librarian.  I know that worked against me to some extent, but they mentioned they were emphasizing trainability and customer service, both of which are strong areas for me.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who consoled my consternation before the interview, and to all the well-wishers.  It&#8217;s nice to know that in many ways, we&#8217;re all in this boat together, and the experience of one can work for the advantage of another.  In the meantime, keep those fingers crossed (thumbs held), and I&#8217;ll let you know how it all turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a telephone interview last night &#8211; my first &#8211; and I think it went pretty well. Being out of the interview habit, and completely out of the telephone interview habit, I was a little rusty, and they asked me things I wasn&#8217;t as prepared for as I might have hoped. All the same, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,25],"tags":[146,151,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}