We all love looking for jobs and going to countless interviews and sending in applications and competing with others...NOT. I have been sending my resume in quite a bit lately trying to find a job that will help my husband and I make enough money to stay alive while we're in California. Yesterday and Today I've had the chance to interview with a company that I would love to work for. It is job coaching people with developmental disabilities. Pretty amazing right? So yesterday my interview went pretty well I'd like to think. I answered the questions alright and the only questions they really asked me were about my long term goals. Easy, I want a family, to get my masters in occupational therapy and I would love to adopt a child with downs syndrome. That was my only question. So I thought today would be similar to yesterday, laid back...Wrong again! So today I got invited back for another "second interview". This time it was me, another girl and a team leader. We went to areas where we knew consumers would be working and had to observe their behaviors and the way that their job coaches dealt with them. Then when we got back to the facility we had to write two paragraphs on the behaviors we saw, how the job coaches dealt with them, if their techniques were effective and what we would do differently. Intense right? And of course this whole time me and the other girl knowing we were competing against each other. Never have I been so thankful for all of the experiences I've been blessed to have in the last year. My ABA training, DS training and staff observations saved my butt! So here it goes. That process was a good one for me to go through, although I don't find out if I got the job or not until Monday or Tuesday, being able to put my knowledge and skills to the test was a blessing.
So interviews, we have a love/hate relationship. You keep me from being too rusty and you give me a nice little bit of anxiety. Thanks.
