Wednesday, September 9, 2009

2nd Interview

So I had the 2nd and final interview for the HR Vendor Manager's position yesterday. I have to say that I went in really confident that I would do really good on this one too. I've been working and doing this kind of job for over 4 years, I have lots of experience. I also knew I was going to be interview by an indian manager because of the reference name I got when they called to schedule the appointment. But I was definitely not ready for this interview. He spoke so fast, and though he had great communication skills, his accent was so thick that on several occations I had some problems understanding some words or phrases. For years Ale worked with technical engineers from Indian and he would come home "complaining" about the fact that it was too hard for him to understand them. Please keep in mind, before you judge us or call us racist, that we are both latinos and our first language is spanish. We are bless to have a really good english accent, and some knowledge in french. We live in a spanish speaking country but we both work for an american company. So 5 days a week, 9 hours per day both of us only speaks english. But for people like us, that english is a second language, speaking to someone who also speaks english as a second language and has a thick accent, sometimes, it becomes really hard to understand.
And it was either my nerves or my lack of "understanding well" that got me sweating for over an hour while I was talking to him. By the end of the interview I felt like a failure! I don't know why, but part of my feels like I came out of it defeated and someone else will get that position. And then all I could think of last night while trying to sleep was all the clever answers that I could have given him. I'm praying to God that this will be it. I really need a fresh start. I'm trying not to beat down myself or at least not to put all my hope on this opportunity. But I'm crossing my fingers that this will be my break.

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