Interview!

Well, I showed up a half hour early, read my book for 15 minutes, then went inside and hooked up with Eric from TEKsystems. These TEKsystems guys are awesome, Eric met me, gave me a more detailed briefing about the job, gave me background on FDN, talked about the people I'd be working with, the atmosphere, etc, and then we just sat around chatting about money and highways and tech jobs and stuff until the FDN people got done with their meeting and came over to interview me. Eric introduced me, then took his leave. The FDN people were kinda... blah. They never showed any expression, they were VERY brief... They asked the usual sorts of questions, like what my most relevant experience is... I think I screwed that one up, I mentioned my computer experience and Admin Asst experience, rather than my inventory and recieving experience. When I mentioned my computer experience they asked if I was more interested in that sort of thing or in data entry, and I said I was interested in anything having to do with computers. Dumb answer, I know, I guess I had gotten so at ease with Eric I didn't quite know what to make of these two, and I didn't have much time to figure it out either. They asked me if I had any further questions about the job, I said TEK had done a great job of telling me all about it. They explained the basics in a bit more detail, told me more about the process, and then asked if I had any other questions. I didn't, so that was it. Total time, about 3 minutes. After I left I called Dan at TEK to follow up and tell him how it went, I told him basically what was said, and he said that I should hear yea or nay tomorrow, since they are interviewing all day today. He said if it doesn't work out, he's got some other things that are "kinda in the works" for me. Eric and I had also spoken about the sort of job I would prefer to data entry, and he said he would look into it because FDN is expending their tech support section and there might be a PC Technician opening. Both have told me just how incredibly hard it is to get in on the ground floor in that line of work, even with certifications, because most companies want experience. Still, I've got enough money to last me through March, at which point I can go on unemployment and live off that. I'm leaning towards preferring to wait a month or two and get a job that'll give me a start in the PC tech field rather than take the data entry one and THEn have to try to get a PC tech job down the road. Still and all, if FDN offers me the data entry position, I will accept happily, and I will know that in 6 months TEK will have even more reason to hunt down just the sorta job I want, plus by then I'll have the certs to DO the job as well. Either way you wanna look at it, wish me luck!