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Job Interview

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:29 am
by Mizuki
D:

Job interveiw today at 2pm. Hopefully gonna be a Petsmart doggie bather ^-^; I'd rather not try to find another job so I hope I get this. :P

Anyone remember or had a job nterveiw? How'd it go? What did you do!? >_>

._.

All I know is to smile, be cool and nice, dress nicely be friendly, and when I walk in try to find the manager! D:

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:19 pm
by Soran Nightblade
That's about all there is to it. The other rule; never associate yourself with anything negative. Like even if your last employer (or near-employment experience) was a complete dick, if you're asked "how did you get along with the people at your last job" or something like that, the answer is always "great". If you're asked about your "least favorite X" or "worst X experience", it's a trick question. ANd...uh....be able to say you've washed dogs? Sometimes they ask corny stuff like your favorite book and why, or how would you spend one wish, etc, but for a retail job, I don't know if they'd want that much information.

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:28 pm
by Mizuki
So, you really are basicaly blind when you walk into the place? I DO have to find someone to show me where to find the manager, eh?

(me don't wanna look stupid and there was actually somewhere i was supposed to go ^_^; )

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:38 pm
by Soran Nightblade
Yup, most decent places will have a receptionist and a waiting room, but at Petsmart you'll need to nab a clerk to hunt him down, and to be honest you'll be lucky if he remembers your interview. Just be sure of yourself and act confident "Yes, we arranged on the phone to meet today." There's a 50 percent chance he'll do something absurdly rude like ask you to come back in an hour or reschedule for a different day, in which case you can either assure him it won't take long and you'd like to talk now if possible because your'e serious about the job, or suck it up and reschedule. Just keep in mind he's the one being rude and you're too good for his establishment, but you're sucking it up cause it's your first job and if your manager didn't suck you'd have no first-job stories to tell your friends.

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:51 pm
by Mizuki
DDDDDDD: *jaw gap*

But he sounded *real* nice on da phone! *sob*

Well, if that happens -omg please no- I'll...probably be doing option 2 and sucking it up. D: I'm not that confident, or out spoken.

well, mom's driving me, curse my lack of owning my own car, so i can cry on her shoulder if that happens. XP (nope, I'm not serious about crying)

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:28 pm
by Soran Nightblade
Aw hehe. He may be perfectly fine. I've just had a lot of friends have ... turbulent experiences with retail management. The people at ACME forgot my sister's interview 4 times, and sent her away all four. Then when they let her in, they asked if she had a drug test yet, and when she said no, they said they couldn't count her application. My first job was teaching horseback riding at a camp, and the interview went so smoothly that I didn't know what hit me when they gyped me out of $150 of my pay at the end of the camp because of a technicality in my contract I so gleefully signed. Basically....employers can be pricks, and a lot of them are out to take advantage of unexperienced workers who don't know any better.

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:59 pm
by Amenat
I quit my first job last june. My employer was so bummed she quit. XD Just kidding, I quit the same time the old manager did. She quit just because, I quit because I was going overseas.

I want another job but no one will interview me.

Mizuki I hope you get a job pretty soon.

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:28 pm
by Mizuki
*collapses on floor*

I had to wait a half an hour before my interveiwer could see me. The questions made me feel stupid though, I did answer them.

And...

I have another interveiw tomorrow at 10 x_X

weeeeeeeee

good thing I'm already watching my neighbor's 3 dogs, otherwise I wouldn't have anything to go on with some of those questions. =P

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:31 pm
by Mizuki
XD

I got the job yo. :3