Internship Interview

[Decebalvs Rex]

Hello dear Neowinians!

 

I would like to hear your honest opinion on a few matters!

I am 22 years old and currently practice Nursing courses in Romania. The short story goes like this..

There is this beautiful Friday morning when a Career Representative (Romanian by origin) enters my class, aiming to recruit nurses for Internship in Great Britain. I was selected with a few more and I phone called them to give my contact details.

Everything went well and I was set up for Skype Interview on Monday 9:00 AM. Days pass and when the time comes nobody is calling.

Okay! A friend told me to call them and because of stress I forgot to start with telling my name.BAD BAD.  Lady on resources told me there is a lot of processing and I am not even in the database scheduled for interview. (What?!) I excused myself for not preseting my name first and we continued discussing, giving my details again, my contacts, her voice going calm and friendlier, asking for my full details this time. The call ended surprisingly well.

 

Thing is.. my collegue, went directly into the interview and then he received some papers to fill in where I was told I'll receive some formal papers first by email and then they will set up an interview.

On a side note, I can fulfill their requirements perfectly. 

 

Please share with me your thoughts, are they going to contact me again? Is there any action left here ? How would you react now?

Thank you for your time!

[Mulrian]

Have you been rescheduled for another interview yet?

[Bi4me]

First of - a failure to get one job is not the end of the world. You need to chill down a bit, it's not an internship at Google.

 

Secondly, you are still young and stressed. With time you'll go to a lot of interviews and start to worry less.  You need to be relaxed in order to show yourself in your best light.

 

Will they call you again? Nobody knows, perhaps even they don't know it. There are many factors.

 

There are companies that are just ###### and will never call you again for feedback. A good company will call you in a timely manner to inform you whether you pass or not. And don't always seek the guilt in yourself. Sometimes it's just that they want to hire one person and interview like 20 and have to pick up only one of them.

 

Go to the interview and make them think they need you more than you need them. This way you might even get a bigger salary.

[Decebalvs Rex]

Thank you both for your replies.

I have been rescheduled for another interview, this time directly with the employer. I calmed myself down and changed my attitude a bit, reconsidered the whole thing and as you say ShockD, its not the end of the world. Its great to find some reason in the posts as my mind was blocked on having an intership written on the CV, it would matter A LOT when I finish my courses. "Go to the interview and make them think they need you more than you need them. This way you might even get a bigger salary." - a fine comment I tell you, I'll keep to the advice.

@ Mulrian : it seems they excused again and few minutes later my formal papers landed in my inbox along with the interview schedule. I'll see what happens.

[Bi4me]

While having some experience is always a good thing, not all employers are impressed by that. If it's irrelevant, if it was an unknown company or you spent too little time there, it's just of no significance to your future employer. I think most of them are interested in what you can do right here, right now.

 

I was in the middle of my university courses when I sent a CV to a company that required either a degree or 2+ years of experience. What did I have? Nothing really. But I didn't care. I hadn't even taken all my exams and I had absolutely no work experience. And guess what? They hired me. I was just better than the rest of their people. What's more I quickly realised that and demanded a high salary like theirs. They had no choice but to give me the job.

 

This happened after I got rejected from numerous places (I don't know why to this day) and I had to bear with it. Every time I thought I'll become the first jobless engineer out there. I'm telling you all this because I can relate to your situation a lot.