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Yesterday
I would pretty much like to erase yesterday. The job fair DID NOT go as well as I hoped. I interviewed with the district I work for now and it was a FANTASTIC interview. I even knew the gal who was interviewing me. Not my favorite person in the district but I would never be rude to her. Anyway, I didn't get asked for a second interview. I walked away, stunned. I don't know what I said or did wrong but that last two years I've always gotten a second interview.
I interviewed for another district and it was going well until she asked me "why do you think you haven't found a job yet?" She may as well have stabbed me in the heart. I wanted to get up, walk away, and cry in the middle of the interview. I don't think she meant it to be rude but it was.
One interview I had was absolutely insane. I don't really want to work for this district for a variety of reasons but I used it as a "warm up" for the day. He didn't ask me any questions off of the sheet. He asked me questions that magically popped into his head. He was using terms I've never heard and when I asked him to clarify he would say "well, think about it." He also didn't understand why I had so many jobs on my resume in such a short period. Most of my jobs were temporary because of categorical funds. I explained that my job now is funded with stimulus money and it will run out at the end of the year. He tried to argue with me a little bit and tell me that there was no more stimulus money. The district I work in is very fiscally conservative so there was still some money left and thus my position was created. I still don't think it registered with him. There aren't many or if any intervention teachers in his district so I don't think he quite got it. The end of the interview was great once I started talking about data and focus walls. I walked away like I had just been on the tilt-a-whirl.
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Re: Yesterday
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I'm so sorry it didn't go as well as you'd hoped. Can you get feedback from your current district as to why they didn't ask you back for a second interview? Might as well get some constructive feedback to improve your candidacy in the future, if nothing else.
Hang in there, and good luck.
Thanks all for encouraging words=). My mom suggest I try to remember some questions I was asked, type them up with the answers I gave, and make an appointment with my old mentor and figure out what I can do better. I think if I don't get a job this year I'm going to walk away for a little while. Not quit completely but just take a break. It's kind of like when you're working on a project and you get really frustrated so you just walk away from it for a little while. It's been over two years and I'm exhausted.
The bright side is I still have my current job and I'll continue to put my whole heart into it until the end of the year. I'm just going to try to forget about the job fair and focus on my job now.
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