Job Interview Experiences

Exactly a week since Rio Olympics ended. In other words, it means exactly a week where I have nothing to do beside sleeping, eating and rotting at home. However, since I promised myself that I will update my blog once a week to maintain my writing skills, I must then be on my blog right now and crack my mind with something that happened on me during the past week. I am not going to say that it is a totally lifeless week, but there are days when I really had nothing to do.

First worth-remembered thing that happened on me last few days was the moment when I received a message from the creator of Badzine, Raphael Sachetat. I was indeed surprised to receive his message. He told me that he came through my previous blog post (link at here) and thought that I have good writing skills, which allowed me to join their voluntary company in writing articles. It took me for about two days to consider committing myself in this career. I eventually accept this offer even though it is just becoming a volunteer. From a brighter side, I can also take this opportunity to force myself to write more than just a post once a week. Hence, I submitted the applications and now it is time for them to send me any features and I will work on it. With that, I hope one day my article would be publicly publish, which allowed many more people to better understand this field.

Second thing that happened to me was my first ever job interview in the United States. I tried applying some jobs that related to my major and also some that are not related to my major in order for me to gain some insights of the work life in the United States. Nevertheless, I did not really give much hope on every job that I applied as I only planned to work for a short term. One day, when I was chilling with dramas, I received a call from a company. He asked me the reasons of me applying to this job and the reasons of working with autism children. I explained to him and got a great feedback from him to proceed to the next interview, which was happened on the next day. It was a Skype version of interview as I couldn’t be at the main office. So, we scheduled a time and set up everything. I would say that the interview went beyond my expectations. As I did not have any formal interview before this, I assumed that it would be a challenging one. However, I realized that the interview actually went pretty well. I mean every thing that he questioned me; I was able to confidently answer it. After the interview, he also sent me some applications and videos to watch in order to better understand this company and the therapies that they provide in this company. At this moment, I am still waiting for their answer. Whether it is a good or a bad news, I accept it with an openhearted. I know nothing goes smoothly, and only with every failure and experience, I am capable to learn and grow.

I guess that basically sums up this week beside all those tiny things that happened on me. I have no idea what I should do for the next few weeks, but I have one thing that’s on my mind right now. I shall keep it until everything is confirmed. Till then.