I am simultaneously pleased and nervous. Pleased because it is a job I would like to get and it means I am pitching at about the right level.
But I’m also nervous because I haven’t had a job interview for a few years and I tend to not do too well when I haven’t had an interview in a while. Like anything job interviews are something you tend to be better at with a little practice.
Fortunately, both Deb and I have both interviewed many, many people over the years to fill various jobs so between us we are usually fairly good at working out what kind of questions I’ll be asked.
Did I say I am nervous?
I have also put two more applications together. One is again in a roughly related field in a behind the scenes management role. I’d quite like that one too but not quite as much as the one I’m being interviewed for on Tuesday.
The other was one Deb suggested, it is heading a small policy unit in a Government Department.
To be totally honest I’m not quite sure if I would enjoy it but: I fit the selection criteria; I don’t loose anything by throwing my hat in the ring; and the pay looks to be way better than anything comparable in the community sector.
What do you think? Al the Public servant?
Anyway Tuesday first. If I do well I will land the job I want.
Now a couple of piccies from my archive.
Both of these were taken in the coastal heath at North Head in Sydney a couple of years ago.
I have to confess that I have no idea what the trumpet shaped flowers are.
They are tiny, each ‘trumpet’ about an inch long.I am fairly sure these are a species of Melaleuca.
Which doesn’t help much because Melaleuca is a family with hundreds of species from small shrubs to large trees.The 'problem' with Aussie wild-flowers is there are literally 1,000s of species. Very pretty, but a non expert like me often has very little idea of what I am looking at.
As a by-the-by, I have occasionally been in the bush with botanists who have said, 'Errr not sure what that one is.'
