The Interview, The Gym, and Anxietyland

Monday was the big day. Without revealing TOO much about the company, it’s one of Canada’s larger companies that just made a few billion dollars last quarter despite it being a very crappy economy. Yeah… billions. With a B. The position itself is an 18 month internship which will have me performing at all levels at the company with the final 9 months being specialized within the supply chain side of things.

The interview itself went fairly well, I think. The person I interviewed for was very friendly and seemed easy enough to talk to which is something I don’t normally get in interviews. I’ve got personality and trying to tone that down for the stiff and rigid is always a bit daunting for me. Hopefully it wasn’t a huge disaster!

Following that, a group exercise. It seemed as if they had taken a candidate from each stream and lumped them together to perform under pressure. The assignment seemed fairly easy, meshing well with the different personalities was not. Well… ok, that’s not entirely true. The group could have done very well had it not been for one overbearing person. I think we held our own when it came to present and I’m hoping that part went decently as well.

The next part is the waiting game. Hopefully it won’t be TOO long before they decide on something. I could really use this opportunity!

Following the interview, I went to the gym. I went with the intention of avoiding the half-assed attempt of last time and really get things done. I’d like to think it didn’t go too badly!

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