So I finished high school about 1-2 months ago and I somehow happened to get to and finished the interviewing stage for an IT Traineeship at a bank, full time 8 hours a day 5 days a week for 2 years on a 36k salary.
The problem is i've never had a job before and it was my first interview for anything ever, and I couldn't really gauge their responses.
They said they will call me in a week to tell me the outcome but right now my brain is off the charts on if I got it or not, and I have no idea how to calm down or to forget about it.
What do?
Also weird fact about the bank is that it is in the same area where the cafe terrorist attack happened, and the memorial for it is on the street the bank is on.
It's friday, have a beer and do something to get your mind of things, play some game with friends or go to their house maybe.
Or go to the bar
There's not much you can do to influence the outcome at this point, so just relax and let the response come. Either you get it or you don't, and if you don't, well, just continue looking for another place!
I get how rhetoric and paradoxically this sounds, but really the best solution to worrying about something is just not worrying about it.
I work in IT, have done interviewing and hiring, here's some things to remember
"I couldn't really gauge their responses."
Don't worry, depending on if it is a technical or HR person will determine how they respond.
"They said they will call me in a week to tell me the outcome"
This just means they had more than one interviewer scheduled for the position and they still need to interview those people, not that they are trying to push you off.
"What do?"
Go for a walk, just walk until you aren't stressed out. Remember there are more jobs out there, just because one door closes doesn't mean no one else will hire you.
What concerned you most about the interview?
[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;46891024]I work in IT, have done interviewing and hiring, here's some things to remember
"I couldn't really gauge their responses."
Don't worry, depending on if it is a technical or HR person will determine how they respond.
"They said they will call me in a week to tell me the outcome"
This just means they had more than one interviewer scheduled for the position and they still need to interview those people, not that they are trying to push you off.
"What do?"
Go for a walk, just walk until you aren't stressed out. Remember there are more jobs out there, just because one door closes doesn't mean no one else will hire you.
What concerned you most about the interview?[/QUOTE]
I had both a HR person and a Manager from one of their IT departments interview me, so it was 2 on 1.
What REALLY REALLY put me on edge was that they both had pieces of paper that had a table with two columns on them with the left column having sentences in them and the right column was for writing in.
The huge problem with this is that there were about 5-6 rows in the table. The HR guy was the only guy to write on his table but he wrote like 3-5 words on the first row and left everything blank, the IT manager guy didn't even touch his piece of paper.
What that has got me thinking is that they didn't really have much to write about me, so it just makes me kinda feel that I didn't fit the part right even though they wanted an interview with me after the online test they made me do.
[QUOTE=kidkiller745;46891059]I had both a HR person and a Manager from one of their IT departments interview me, so it was 2 on 1.
What REALLY REALLY put me on edge was that they both had pieces of paper that had a table with two columns on them with the left column having sentences in them and the right column was for writing in.[/quote]
Not to sound like a dick but this is pretty common in most IT jobs, don't worry about what they do, moving forward always focus on what you say and how you tackle the problem.
[quote]The huge problem with this is that there were about 5-6 rows in the table. The HR guy was the only guy to write on his table but he wrote like 3-5 words on the first row and left everything blank, the IT manager guy didn't even touch his piece of paper.[/quote]
HR generally has to write stuff down regardless they are judging personality strengths, IT meh it's usually one or the other. HR has to process paper work, that takes time even if you aren't hired HR is slow everywhere, don't sweat it too much.
[quote]What that has got me thinking is that they didn't really have much to write about me, so it just makes me kinda feel that I didn't fit the part right even though they wanted an interview with me after the online test they made me do.[/QUOTE]
In IT interviews it is one or the other, I've had interviews where it was walk into a server room and told "do X/Y/Z" never wrote down a thing, then called me and told me to start on X date. Don't worry about the paper or what they wrote, they saw your resume/reference/etc they understood who they were interviewing and had a reason to do so. So long as you kept your cool and were able to answer the questions correctly or at least admit when you didn't know and didn't BS you should be fine.
[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;46891109]Not to sound like a dick but this is pretty common in most IT jobs, don't worry about what they do, moving forward always focus on what you say and how you tackle the problem.
HR generally has to write stuff down regardless they are judging personality strengths, IT meh it's usually one or the other. HR has to process paper work, that takes time even if you aren't hired HR is slow everywhere, don't sweat it too much.
In IT interviews it is one or the other, I've had interviews where it was walk into a server room and told "do X/Y/Z" never wrote down a thing, then called me and told me to start on X date. Don't worry about the paper or what they wrote, they saw your resume/reference/etc they understood who they were interviewing and had a reason to do so. So long as you kept your cool and were able to answer the questions correctly or at least admit when you didn't know and didn't BS you should be fine.[/QUOTE]
Well, that cleared a lot up for me.
Thanks for the responses, didn't actually expect someone who has the same experience as the guy on the other side of the table to help clear it up for me.
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