It's been a busy month regarding job-hunting for a librarian opening. Brevard County interviewed me - twice, which is the really good news - and I did a phone interview with Rasmussen College. Still and all, it would be nice to finally get a job lined up, get my finances stabilized, my life back on track...
With regards to writing, my mood and interests are distracted at the moment. I feel the need to write but not the urgency. Tis the pity.
I'll update here as best I can. Happy 2012 to everyone!
Showing posts with label job interview. Show all posts
Showing posts with label job interview. Show all posts
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Sunday, March 14, 2010
I Survived South Florida
From my previous post, discussing my trip back to the Ft. Lauderdale/Miami metro and what I expected from the job interview:
As for the interview itself? Florida National College was hiring for Library Director. Supervisory, with two librarians, a library assistant, and a handful of clerks on staff, so it was a better staffing situation than the previous small college I interviewed last year.
The interview itself went... I have to admit I was rusty. Haven't interviewed in a year. There were questions from the panel about why I had a year-long gap on the resume: I noted I was taking classes for computer certification and was job hunting, noting the current difficulties of the job market. They asked about how I lost my last full-time job: I answered honestly (incompatibility) but it's never easy explaining why you lose a job. They seemed to be packing in a set of interviews that afternoon, so I do know there's competition for the spot (in this market there has to be. Officially it's six people per open job: from the rumors I'm getting it's more like twenty per open job!)
Well, we'll see how it goes.
Except for the traffic. I'm pretty damn sure South Florida traffic is still a frakking nightmare.Hmmm, yeah, that was pretty much right. I-595 heading in Thursday night, definitely nasty. The drive into Hialeah on I-75 went well, but driving back? Bumper-to-bumper from Miramar to Weston...
As for the interview itself? Florida National College was hiring for Library Director. Supervisory, with two librarians, a library assistant, and a handful of clerks on staff, so it was a better staffing situation than the previous small college I interviewed last year.
The interview itself went... I have to admit I was rusty. Haven't interviewed in a year. There were questions from the panel about why I had a year-long gap on the resume: I noted I was taking classes for computer certification and was job hunting, noting the current difficulties of the job market. They asked about how I lost my last full-time job: I answered honestly (incompatibility) but it's never easy explaining why you lose a job. They seemed to be packing in a set of interviews that afternoon, so I do know there's competition for the spot (in this market there has to be. Officially it's six people per open job: from the rumors I'm getting it's more like twenty per open job!)
Well, we'll see how it goes.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Going Back to South Florida
As in the Boca-Broward-Bimini Triangle... Palm Beach/Broward/Dade Metro of Doom. I'm going back for a job interview down there. Going back...
I moved there in 1994 to begin my first full-time job as a Librarian I at the North Regional / BCC Library. It was a brand new structure back then, fresh paint, new carpeting, new shelves, new everything. Lord, that was 16 years ago, and it was pretty beat up the last time I visited in... what was it, 2004?
What happened was... I had wanted to work in academia, you see. And the NR branch was part of a County Public Library system. While as a joint-use library it also served the community college students, in truth there wasn't much in the way of academic-level research offered. So even though I had a decent job there, I kept sending my resumes to colleges here and there, just looking, interviewing sometimes (why I didn't get that North Florida job, I'll never know, I thought I nailed that interview). So in some respects I never really wanted to stay there...
Part of it also was the fact I took a promotion up after about six years from Librarian I to II, which moved me to a supervisory role and into the Public Computer Labs... at other Regional branches. Worked at South Regional for about seven months in one of the most cramped staff offices I'd ever seen (it had been built before the widespread need for computers at every staff cubicle... it was also built with some of the shoddiest materials I'd ever seen, the roof LEAKED, this was a Library for God's sake), then transferring up to another brand new Regional library for about a year... then transferred from there to the Main branch as a regular Reference librarian again until 2003 when an opportunity opened up at my alma mater UF. Job history from there gets a little more complicated to where I'm sitting here unemployed in Pasco County wondering just what the hell I've done wrong job-hunting the last 14 months...
I last visited Broward County for a friend's retirement party. That was 2004, maybe 2005. Only stayed for that and not much more. It's been six (maybe five) years since I'd even been down there. I know South Regional built a new building roughly 4 years ago. I figure most of the people I knew working there probably moved on... It's been so long, and I never made an honest effort to keep in touch.
The job I'm interviewing for is a small private college in Dade. If I have some time, I might visit a few old haunts, see how the place has changed... sure it's been five (six) years since I'd been down there... but I know things change within a heartbeat.
Except for the traffic. I'm pretty damn sure South Florida traffic is still a frakking nightmare.
I moved there in 1994 to begin my first full-time job as a Librarian I at the North Regional / BCC Library. It was a brand new structure back then, fresh paint, new carpeting, new shelves, new everything. Lord, that was 16 years ago, and it was pretty beat up the last time I visited in... what was it, 2004?
What happened was... I had wanted to work in academia, you see. And the NR branch was part of a County Public Library system. While as a joint-use library it also served the community college students, in truth there wasn't much in the way of academic-level research offered. So even though I had a decent job there, I kept sending my resumes to colleges here and there, just looking, interviewing sometimes (why I didn't get that North Florida job, I'll never know, I thought I nailed that interview). So in some respects I never really wanted to stay there...
Part of it also was the fact I took a promotion up after about six years from Librarian I to II, which moved me to a supervisory role and into the Public Computer Labs... at other Regional branches. Worked at South Regional for about seven months in one of the most cramped staff offices I'd ever seen (it had been built before the widespread need for computers at every staff cubicle... it was also built with some of the shoddiest materials I'd ever seen, the roof LEAKED, this was a Library for God's sake), then transferring up to another brand new Regional library for about a year... then transferred from there to the Main branch as a regular Reference librarian again until 2003 when an opportunity opened up at my alma mater UF. Job history from there gets a little more complicated to where I'm sitting here unemployed in Pasco County wondering just what the hell I've done wrong job-hunting the last 14 months...
I last visited Broward County for a friend's retirement party. That was 2004, maybe 2005. Only stayed for that and not much more. It's been six (maybe five) years since I'd even been down there. I know South Regional built a new building roughly 4 years ago. I figure most of the people I knew working there probably moved on... It's been so long, and I never made an honest effort to keep in touch.
The job I'm interviewing for is a small private college in Dade. If I have some time, I might visit a few old haunts, see how the place has changed... sure it's been five (six) years since I'd been down there... but I know things change within a heartbeat.
Except for the traffic. I'm pretty damn sure South Florida traffic is still a frakking nightmare.
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