{"id":12,"date":"2020-04-01T02:09:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T02:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/?p=12"},"modified":"2020-04-01T19:53:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:53:37","slug":"job-application-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/2020\/04\/01\/job-application-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Application Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n\n\n<p> Describe your experiences from the perspective of an applicant for the last job you for which you applied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I was talking to my friend about her job one day before she went to work and she had nothing but good things to say about the owners, her co-workers, customers, and the job itself. I asked her if they were hiring and she said they were, and that I should bring by a copy of my resume because they don&#8217;t have applications. I updated my resume to fit the job I was applying for and took a copy down to the shop later that day and gave it to her to pass on to the owner. My friend said most of the people who work there, got the job because they had a friend who worked there and referred them.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> Explain how your experiences during the job application process shaped your impression of the job you were applying for and your desire to work there (or in some cases to not work there). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>After I dropped my resume by the shop, I received a phone call for an interview two days later. We set up an interview for later that week. The owner is the one who interviewed me and showed up 5 minutes late to the interview. I thought this was unprofessional and wasn&#8217;t a very good first impression. But the interview went very well, we talked for over an hour, it was very informal, and she only asked one or two actual interview questions. Our personalities meshed together well and I knew she was someone I would like to work for. She talked very highly of her employees and mentioned multiple times that they have a really good group of employees right not and she is looking for someone that will make a good fit. She said she would be in touch by the end of the week with her decision either way. She kept true to that and called and offered me the position a few days later. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Describe your experiences from the perspective of an applicant for the last job you for which you applied. I was talking to my friend about her job one day before she went to work and she had nothing but good things to say about the owners, her co-workers, customers, and the job itself. I asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jameshan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}