Interview process

Since I completed my computer class and my job shadow project, I am even more sure that I don’t want to be an Office worker. I want to play with kids! But I do want to work more hours [and earn more money]. So when I went out for lunch with my graphic artist friend [who was also looking for a job] we looked over the local help wanted ads and I found something right up my alley. Head teacher [don’t that sound prestigious!] for a local child development council’s after school program. Right after lunch I called the Displaced Homemaker’s office and made an appointment to update my resume.
Boy do I look good on paper! It’s a real head sweller. But my dear friends are so good at keeping my feet on the ground. I needed to submit three letters of recommendation with the resume and I emailed a request for same to most of the people I’ve worked with in a volunteer capacity, and got a good response. Of course I had to shelf the letter about how I lie awake nights thinking of ways to make my scouts suffer…and the letter about the eating of the fishy eye incident. But the letters about my wonderful common sense, my creativity, and my miraculous ability to stretch a buck, those I could use.
My brothers gave plenty of good advice on interviewing successfully. Look the interviewer in the eye, don’t be scary, write a thank-you note. I’m trying to do everything right…hopefully that will count in my favor even if I fail in some small detail.
Before my first interview I found a second ad for a position working with preschoolers as an assistant teacher in the same organization, so at the interview I let them know I’d go for either position. Here I am, two interviews later, waiting waiting waiting. Can you believe the hiring staff all went on vacation for a week? Aaargh! The suspense! But they did call me just before they left and ask if I’d be interested in a possible third situation as head teacher working with toddlers. So that triples my chances.