Cloo
Banana for scale
Fingers crossed, mate.
Mine was... odd. Lasted an hour and a half, about half of that was the interviewer kind of interviewing one of the editors so she could explain how her role worked on a day-to-day basis, which was very helpful, though - as I said before, I was still lacking a good picture of how the role would really play out in practice. So they did most of the talking and I had to make a conscious effort sometimes to try to get a word in! I was bit unsure how to handle it, as I didn't want to just sit there, but they didn't give me much room to respond. I wasn't constantly butting in or anything, just making sure I wasn't just nodding my head!
Either side of that, she asked me variations on questions she'd asked before, I gave my answers but got in the main 'new' things I wanted to add.
So it wasn't a grilling - I'm not sure what it was. She still comes over as keen to give me a role - whether she can or not remains to be seen. There may be other candidates who'd seem a safer pair of hands, and/or have more article commissioning experience. I don't know whether someone else may have turned up with a spiffy 5-point plan of how they'd develop their work or whatever. Although TBH that may not go down too well with this role - I was clear that I understood it wasn't the sort of org where one could just go changing stuff without thinking about whose toes it could tread on. I was calm, I think I seemed confident. I just feel totally spent now, frankly!
Mine was... odd. Lasted an hour and a half, about half of that was the interviewer kind of interviewing one of the editors so she could explain how her role worked on a day-to-day basis, which was very helpful, though - as I said before, I was still lacking a good picture of how the role would really play out in practice. So they did most of the talking and I had to make a conscious effort sometimes to try to get a word in! I was bit unsure how to handle it, as I didn't want to just sit there, but they didn't give me much room to respond. I wasn't constantly butting in or anything, just making sure I wasn't just nodding my head!
Either side of that, she asked me variations on questions she'd asked before, I gave my answers but got in the main 'new' things I wanted to add.
So it wasn't a grilling - I'm not sure what it was. She still comes over as keen to give me a role - whether she can or not remains to be seen. There may be other candidates who'd seem a safer pair of hands, and/or have more article commissioning experience. I don't know whether someone else may have turned up with a spiffy 5-point plan of how they'd develop their work or whatever. Although TBH that may not go down too well with this role - I was clear that I understood it wasn't the sort of org where one could just go changing stuff without thinking about whose toes it could tread on. I was calm, I think I seemed confident. I just feel totally spent now, frankly!
- I think if it had been full on competency based, I wouldn't have got past first interview, but luckily I think she just liked me, basically. Interestingly, the other editor I met yesterday struck me as actually quite a similar personality to me.
I'm too old for this shit!
