2005-11-09

Giaganto Inc

So I'm beginning the process of interviewing for a position in the advertising department at a giaganto corporation and it kind of freaks me out. Not the fact that I will become The Man's bitch, because, in reality, it seems that that is all of our destinies, but because they take is all so seriously. If I get through the initial screening process I have to look forward to a several day interviews with a hiring committee of eight people. I wonder how much money they would save if they fired half their hiring committee and interviewed someone for an hour like normal people.

Another thing that is funny is that I feel like I'm in The Trial because I have no idea whatsoever how much this job pays, even after two phone interviews with the staffing agency and completing a job worksheet. The interviews are strange because at this point I'm not entirely sure what they want from me. I mean on one hand they are interviewing me, but at the same time they are trying really hard to sell themselves and Giaganto Inc to me. They both talked at length about the job and the company at great detail before asking any questions, and then the ones that they did ask seemed kind of random. The first lady I interviewed with, her first real question was, "So I see you went to grad school in Montreal. What's the deal with that?" I wasn't sure how to answer, so I talked about how I intended to learn French and that it was too cold. I vaguely talked about enjoying my research and students, but that there were too few job openings in my area for me to consider pursuing a PhD. The second interview man asked me a similiar question and I said more or less the same thing but also talked a little about my literary specialization in grad school and my research (not at any lenghth, of course). Really it is hard to deal with questions about Canada, because I can't just say that I loathed every minute of it and couldn't wait to come back home; it would make me look bad. I've been told that my feeling on matters are generally not very difficult to decipher, so I'm trying to think of a set of good things to say about the place. Any suggestions?

xanthium at 12:19 p.m.

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