Just went for a job interview earlier this morning, had to miss out on my Fitstop class for it, and it was not good.
The co-founder of this company is someone I had matched with on Hinge about a year back, we did chat a little then, found out that we were both IDs, but the conversation didn't sustain long enough to warrant a meet up, so for us to actually meet up in the capacity of a potential candidate and pontential boss almost a year later felt really really weird, and it was really uncomfortable during the actual interivew because none of us really acknowledged the fact that we knew one another through the dating app (or maybe he might have geuinely forgotten who I was, who knows)
I didn't enjoy the dynamics of the interview, it was extremely uncomfortable, I think I had a bit of an inferioirty complex as well because this guy is almost my age, is running his own ID firm, and here I was, applying to join his company as an employee.
The interview itself didn't go well, there were a lot of questions being asked about my past job experience, a lot of scrunitinzing and I think a lot of my responses weren't what he had wanted to hear, so he kept probing and probing to the point where I was actually getting quite uncomfortable because it made me wonder if he was asking me because he genuinely expected a better answer, or if he doing that because he is just being a bitch (my inferiority complex kicking in), looking back, I think it might be a bit of both.
I came into the interview expecting it to be awkward, but what I did not expect was to feel like shit about myself afterwards. The sad thing about this job is that if the boss had been someone else who was much older with much more experience, I would have been really excited to go further, but alas, I really didn't like the guy after how the interview went.
He did propose to "test" me by giving me a task to do, to prepare a space planning proposal with 3D included and send it over to him because he wants to see how I design and plan spaces, which in all honesty is fair, this is something I had done for another company before.
The other company gave me 1 week, this guy is only going to give me 1 day, and that was after he had commented and told me how he knows I don't have a lot of time because I am working working a full time job.
Huh?!
That's like a barista telling the customer that they are aware they are lactose intolerant, and then proceeds to prepare for them a latte made with full fat milk.
Anyways, I left the office feeling not so great about myself and my current career trajectory, met up with a friend for a meal after and throughout the meet up, the interview would just keep replying in my head for the rest of the day, which really affected my mood a little, so I did eventually email the ID firm this evening and told them I was going to withdraw my application due to personal reasons.
It's now time to go back to Jobstreet and MyCareerFuture to look for more job openings.
