They called today. I didn’t get the job. Apparently, a twenty-minute interview isn’t a good thing.
I don’t put much faith in these things, but over the weekend I took a short Myers-Briggs Type Indicator survey my boss wanted all his employees to complete. He’s hoping to improve efficiency, and apparently this is the way to do it. I had already missed the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” seminar, so I figured I could humor him at least this much. Apparently, I am a INFJ type: introverted, intuitive, feeling, and judging. People like me “succeed by perseverance, originality, and desire to do whatever is needed or wanted.” We are “quietly forceful, conscientious, concerned for others, respected for [our] strong principles.” And we are “likely to be honored and followed for [our] clear convictions as to how best serve the common good.”
Who knew?
When a job interview lasts only twenty minutes, and most of that is an overview of what the position entails rather than questions about your work, past performance, or yourself, is that a good or a bad thing?
‘That we shall die.’
‘Yes. There’s really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer….The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.'” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness