So after the fantastic Secret Santa party, I got rid of the elf costume and run home fir a telephone interview. I am applying for a graduate program at a huge company and there are various selection steps. I passes the application, the psychometric test and now was the phone interview. If I passed I would go for an assessment day with 4 more interviews.

This country is very competitive and that are rules and norms for everything. You have to be excellent to get the job you want and not only have the skills but also be exellent at selling yourself. There are things you cannot say at an interview and things you have to say and lots of other things. Scary!

So I have been preparing for the interview, reading book, making lists of skills, researching about the company, etc, etc, etc. I have been quite stressed with it because there are a LOT of RULES.

At 12 I received the phone call and had ‘The interview from hell!!!‘

Not because I wasn’t prepared (oh I was prepared!) Not because the questions were unexpected or difficult, but because I didn’t understand A WORD of what she said! She was foreign and had a very difficult accent and the connection was quite bad! So I spent the interview having to ask her to repeat the question and I am sure she wasn’t happy with it. She became quite rude at some point. Not good!

I would say that is a job I can forget…