So my Aunt Linda loves talking on the phone, and I have been reaching out to her more often than I typically would because she is a family members that knows me well and pursued a career in business consulting prior to having my 2 cousins. She has been helping to coach me in simple ways of being more professional in my phone interviews and forwarding me options for job opportunities. I feel guilty sometimes that I ask her for help instead of my mom, but she reads too much into these things and takes too personal of a viewpoint as I get job interviews that are "too far" away from home. My Aunt Linda offers a more unbiased point of view and is very opportunistic like me.
Anyways, as I called her the other day to chat about an upcoming job interview, she could tell I wasn’t stressed. she was correct because I wasn’t stressed because it would be pretty conversational and more of a cultural fit phone call for a smaller company. I told her I don’t get stressed out about those. That’s the way part for me selling my interests in meeting the team and excitement to learn about what they do. It’s more so the phone call that is about my technical skills and quizzing me on past experiences to prove myself that gets me stressed. I know I have had ample experiences to answer those questions but verbalizing them in the proper way on the spot is where I get stumped. My Aunt Linda could tell when I was smiling though the phone as I talked to her. I have been trying to recognize this as well to see if I can. With my phone interview yesterday with 2 different women from NXT Capital, I could tell that their emotions were very serious and would not ease up much at all. This gave me the sense that the culture was very serious and I am unsure (at this point in my life) if I can take myself that seriously dealing with administrative and contractual work. This morning with Capgemini, I could tell that woman I spoke to was very passionate about what she pursued in the business transformation program. She made projects for herself outside of her mainstream financial work to fulfill her diverse interests. I could tell that Keimia was smiling as she told me she chose this career path because she was unsure coming out of her uni where she wanted to go in business. There was an opening for a position in the North American Operations so she pursed that since she wanted to work abroad. She is such go getter. She figured out what she wanted to do and then decided to go to a foreign place to master it and expand on her set of skills. I think we are very similar, me and her, except she has discovered her passions and I am still in the process of discovering mine and how they submerge together. I hope I make it to the second round because this i she first job in a long time that I feel nervously excited about. I just felt blindsided with the questions of what my biggest challenge was and when I progressed a relationship with a client to help me in the future. Eep! Fingers crossed that she can overlook if I didn’t give the most insightful answers to those questions and could read my enthusiasm on the call through all my questions to her.
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