Monday, April 21, 2014

Telephone Interview

Out of the half dozen internships I applied to, I received one hit.  It was from some pharmacy company north of San Francisco for a finance intern position.  After a week of emails back and forth, the recruiter and I scheduled a telephone interview for this morning to see if I would be a good fit for the position.  After four years of constantly trying to improve myself socially and in interacting with people, this was the moment I was preparing for.  Despite several years of improvement and psyching myself up for the last few days, my interview with her was a mess.  I felt like I was trying to rush through it and end it as quickly as possible.  While I did followed proper social etiquette, I stuttered a bit and was extremely nervous throughout the whole thing.  The recruiter stated that she will relay the information to the finance manager and contact me later, but I got the feeling that I won't be hearing from her again.  I found myself pacing back and forth for half an hour afterwards wondering what I could have said better.  I guess I should just write this one off and apply to more internships or even full time jobs.

On another note, I got accepted into SJSU again for computer science.  It's a plan B, if needed.

Note to self:  Work on telephone interactions.

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