There is no feeling in the world then when you get done with an interview and is offered the job on the spot. Every thing inside seems to swell like a balloon until your ready to pop. It takes everything to not shout for joy and do a jig right there.
This is exactly how i felt yesterday.After two years of applying for job after job with no success, my time finally came. For the past couple of weeks, I kept getting this restless feeling that I should apply for some jobs. I was taking that guys advice and started to be motivated and pushy. So I went on Craigslist and sure enough there was a job for a staff writing position in Freehold covering Monmouth and Middlesex Counties. However, the post didn't say what publication it was for. I told my mom, that if I didn't hear anything I was going to personally go to the Greater Media Publications building in Freehold and hand them my resume. I didn't have to.
The next day, I received an email from the editor of Greater Media Publications saying that she had been forwarded my resume and my experience at my internship was very relevant to want this position did. She proceeded to tell me all about the position, the pay, and the benefits. I knew that this time it was going to be different. Right away, everything already was. For one thing, it was a woman that emailed me back and in the past, it was always males that interviewed me. Second, she described the job in full detail in the email as if I had the job already. Usually, you don't get the details until you are actually on the interview. Something inside told me this was it but I tried to keep those feelings at bay. I didn't want to count my chickens until they hatched.
I went on the interview yesterday and as soon as I walked in the door, I knew that this was where I wanted to be. The room was spacious, way bigger then my internship and I could just see myself sitting at one of those cubicles. The editor that I have been in contact with through email for the past week walked up and introduced herself. She was surprisingly elderly and I thought that my chances for landing this had just rise two-fold. Right away the editor began chit chatting with me about Toms River and how she lived there. I felt at ease and the nerves that had sprung up when I first came had completely disappeared. We talked for about ten minutes before we finally made our way to the conference room where she began to ask me about my internship and the things that I had covered and written about. She was happy with everything I told her and kept saying that my experience was exactly what she was looking for.
Then she said that she wanted me to do a quick writing excercise. That is when I momentarily panicked. I wasn't good at doing spur-of-the-moment tests. She must have seen my face and said not to worry, that it was a quick goofy thing that she liked to give people. I was thinking "Great!" When I got the paper and I first read through it, I momentarily thought, "Omg how am I going to write this?" I had completely forgotten how to write an article. I was rusty after two years of not doing it and I told the woman so. However, I forced myself to calm down and remember the 5 w's. As I started to write, it was slow but I managed to get through it.
While I was writing this, I knew that I was probably getting the job because the editor introduced me to the human resources manager. Why would they do that if I wasn't getting the job? When I fiinished with the little test, the editor reviewed it quickly and said that she wanted to offer me the job. She said to take a day or two to think about it and discuss it with my parents but I told her right off the bat that I wanted it.
The job is perfect and exactly what I wanted. I will be making a dollar more then what I'm making now, which I know isn't much but its the experience that I need and what I will get. They have flexible hours and they don't work the weekend. I get full benefits, vacation, sick leave, personal days, and a 401k. How can I beat that? Finally, my career has started.
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