Interview done

I hate interviews. I really do. I knew this was going to be "competency based" which means they ask you to give examples of how you did something, what your value-add was, how the outcome was due to your efforts. I tried to prepare but honestly, how do you guess which take on "give us an example" they're going to come up with?

Anyway, I waffled and blundered my way through. Some class responses included:

Them: How do you manage conflict?
Me: I don't do conflict..... bla bla bla. Of course, you can always get someone else to do the conflict!

Them: When would you set timescales for something without involving anyone else?
Me: I wouldn't do that...... (I'm an inclusive soul would talk to other people bla bla bla)

Them: Is nuclear green?
Me: Aha! Well, in principle yes. But then, no when it comes to the decommissioning.
Them (the other one): Bit sneaky, throwing that in!

It seemed ok. Very friendly, two nice chaps. I think I managed to convince them that passion for green issues wasn't a problem. Next step, if there is one, would be a one-to-one with the Director (a presentation with more examples of how I personally sorted all the problems of telecoms regulation). Interestingly, the potential boss went on to say the step after that would be meeting HR for them to explain "the package".


I still hate interviews.