It is a NAIL BITER OF A DAY........

How many times can one person check their email? How many times can I check my phone......it is a nail biter of a day! 

Job searching is hard enough, job searching when you are a 51 year old woman is even worse!

I do everything that I know to possibly do!

    ·         I have 24 different resumes as I tailor resumes to     each individual position

·         I utilize my college’s career services department to fine tune my resumes, cover letters and interview techniques

·         I call or email to touch-base when my resume is sent

·         I have practiced the interview questions over and over again

·         I have polished my ‘tell us about yourself’ statement until I am a memorable and interesting ‘interviewee’.

·         I send Thank you notes after the interview

What more can I do?

I don’t know…I did consider sending chocolate covered strawberries with my last personalized thank-you card, but, decided against that when a quick Google search revealed that to be inappropriate.

So instead I sit here and wait… I was as prepared as a job seeker has ever been…

I rocked the 1^st interview, rocked the ‘screened’ interview with the HR director flown into town to screen the interviewees and when ‘rocked’, to send us onto the 3^rd interview. That was where I was awesome too…but what it all comes down to is this: 'Does he want me to be his right hand person?' Was there enough of a connection that we ‘clicked’? I made him laugh, he gave me loads of compliments, but we did NOT click as much as I wanted.

Never mind that he would probably not click with Gandhi on the first meeting! It is not that he was hard to connect with; just that he is a polished, reserved business man. Maybe I have too much enthusiasm for him; I don’t know….I was my best self, that is all I could have done.

So I wait…….

If I get the rejection email or phone call, I do know this: A global company was impressed enough with my skills, talents and experiences to interview me along with 6-7 others out of 100-150 applicants.  This gives me a LOT of confidence to keep looking for a good, solid position. It gives me a lot of confidence that I have the skills, talents and experiences that good, solid companies are looking for. 

And it will give me time to come up with the answer to the questions: ‘Compare your last 2 supervisors’ (I did well at this question)  and   ‘Tell me a time when you took a risk’.