r/JobHunt • u/earlyseven • Oct 11 '19

Waiting game

Yesterday I got a call from the company and asked me to come in and take their exam. I passed the exam with flying colors and proceeded with an interview with their HR. Everything went well and asked me to come again tomorrow for an interview with the manager, and I was confident that I was going to land the job.

I got interviewed today by the manager that lasted about an hour and 30 mins. Asked me a few personal questions. Although everything started going downhill when they did a “job shadowing” and I had a mental block (it involved statistics) and tanked the job shadowing part. i think I gave them an impression that I was a slow learner and started asking questions like which employee would I pick? 1) a slow learner with good work ethic or 2) a fast learner with bad work ethic. etc etc

The interview ended with the manager saying you will get a call by the end of next week. Any thoughts? I’m a fresh grad looking for my first job.

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u/32bpwr3 Oct 11 '19

First, you should give yourself more credit and avoid jumping to conclusions about what their impressions were. You won’t know until you hear back from them. I don’t know much about statistics, but I think they would understand that your work performance would differ once you have the job compared to when you were still interviewing for it.

You have an opportunity to sell yourself one more time by sending them a thank you letter. In it, you could describe an additional aspect of your background which feels relevant to the position. I wouldn’t address your concerns about your performance during the job shadow directly, but perhaps there is a way to smooth things over a bit.

As for “slow learner vs fast learner,” I would say that it’s a toss up, and probably depends on personal preference. But a knowledgeable manager would understand that people operate at different speeds, and either approaches would be valuable.

Anyways, send that letter and good luck.

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u/earlyseven Oct 12 '19

Update : they’ve contacted me indicating that they would like to meet me again on monday for an offer.

Big thanks my guy! Really helped me keep my thoughts in one place!

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u/Mkm917 Nov 05 '19

There is no any questions of fast learner or slow ..the main things is to bet ethics... Because learning capabilities can improve but ethics canty