I used to know exactly how many interviews I’d had – now I forget – but it’s something like 60 since the Summmer of 96 (maybe I should write a rock song by that name… *grins*). Certainly I was on #48 when I got the job back in the dying days of the last century.
Anyway today was my interview for the Producer job. Seemed to go well, no deaths of silence and not too much (I think) in the way of umms and errs. In the end it will come and down to me measuring up to their project management requirements (which admittedly I don’t have much formal, corporate, experience of doing). It’s a bit annoying that because:
a) project management is the latest buzzword around the place, but if you are in a job that doesn’t currently require it, even if you have the skills how can you show you have demonstratable formal experience of using it.
b) it’s not as if project management can be considered as exactly rocket science. You plan, you prepare, you implement, and you review; and at each stage along the process you do a bit more of all of it (if you encounter a problem, doubly so).
If I don’t get this job (and I hope I do) then I shall definitely have to use some of the time in these consultancy meetings to find out how they can help me get over this conundrum. After all, they do say in the letter, that they will put every effort into retraining and redeploying me within the business (makes me sound like a chess piece!!)
Honey, that’s just what we have had to deal with over the past year in my organisation – and we have been mystified by how some got through the process and how some others, who were better at their jobs, didn’t. In the end, it boiled down to who was best prepared for interview. So, the only advice that I can give you is to go over the job description in the minutest detail and then prepare several examples against each competency/criteria. Check to see if you are allowed to bring in crib sheets/prompts.
You are so right about project management – and you are half-way there already. Just go over projects that you have managed and break them down, thinking about what went right and what didn’t, and how you turned it around, for example. If you want specific terminology, I’m happy to provide it.
Just go over projects that you have managed and break them down, thinking about what went right and what didn’t, and how you turned it around, for example
You see now that’s the problem. I don’t have any ‘formal’ experience to draw on ‘cos my job has never needed it. I do have examples to hand of where it didn’t work so well, and a more recent example of when it did, but these are not the formal/corporate experience that they are talking about.
No matter. Apparently I find out tomorrow afternoon – there’s a meeting… *runs off and hides*