The interview of my life

Dedicating this post to the smartest and sharpest woman I've met so far. Her name I shall not divulge in case someone Googles it and accesses to this site. But suffice to say that most people would've heard of her since she was an ex-broadcast journalist. The interview took an hour and I was kept on the edge of my seat from start to finish. She was icy cool initially, and there were a few difficult questions from her. I maintained my cool and she gradually warmed up when what I started to talk about made sense. The best part was that HR said they liked me a lot. A LOT.

Met her last Tue on 8 March to interview for an Internal Comms VP position. Halfway through the interview, she sprung a surprise on me and the other VP by saying that she'd like to give me two assignments. One would be how I'd leverage on the Intranet to engage employees, to which I protested because it's impossible to expect an Intranet to be a cure-all. To my relief she said, it's ok and just put in other faucets which I think are necessary to make it work. The other assignment was to write a simple blog post on my first day at my job. The goal of the blog post is to get people excited about what I'm doing. Hence I know I've to write from my heart.

Both assignments are relatively easy but I wouldn't be complacent about it. I genuinely like both of them and I know in my gut that I would fit in with the team. This is so different from the last interview I had with the CAG people where we couldn't gel at all and I left the interview feeling not-so-good about myself. These ladies however, are different. They came across as people who're proud of what they're doing, they know they're good at it and yet not overbearing and disrespectful towards others. That is the ideal team I would love to work for. Future boss is a woman with fire and I love that she asked me things that spoke to my heart. Things that I'm passionate about. So it's all good.

Shall go work on the assignments now. Wish me luck!