The past few days has just been me unlearning and relearning.
I've become too relaxed in my comfort zone and now is the time for me to take action and shape my future the way I'd want it to be.
The last time I talked about my first job rejection but guess whatā¦immediately after I made that post, I slept off and woke up the next day to 3 job interview notificationsā¦
I was happy but my happiness was shortlived because the overthinker in me started to think about the āwhat ifsā
āWhat if I faint while speaking to the interviewerā (I hate public speaking, I'd probably shake like a leaf throughout)
āWhat if they don't like meā
There was just a lot of what ifsā¦
Alhamdulillah for the gift of good friends, otherwise I probably wouldn't have taken those interviews.
Both of them groomed me for my interview and gave me tips, the dos and the don'ts.
I had mock interviewsā¦I never knew that existed till it happened to me.
Guess whatā¦in the typical Rahmah nature, I messed up my first interview š I couldn't find the wordsā¦
It was there but it wasn't coming outā¦I did what I could but I knew nothing good was going to come out of that because I already messed up.
Can interviews just be done using texts??? It's a remote role so we might as well do everything using email or Whatsapp. Why do I have to speak to you before you see that I'm capable š
Funniest thing is, the question I couldn't answer properly was something I had rehearsed over and over againā¦
I learned my lesson sha and I was a little better at my second interview..
What happened at the third??
I didn't join the call at the scheduled time because apparently there are scammers on LinkedIn too.
I sent the job interview notification to my friend and he's like āthis name is familiarā
Innocent me, I said āyou sent me the link to the job, remember?ā
He said āno, there's something elseā
Next thing I know, he pulls up a screenshot from his LinkedIn Dms dated back to Sep 7, 2022
Lo and behold, it was the same sender and everything in the text was exactly the same, the only difference was the company name.
E pain me sha make I no lie because the pay was sweetš
Thank God I hadn't started preparing for the interview yet.
When I got the message the first thing I did was to check the company's LinkedIn profile but the information was extremely vagueā¦almost like the company didn't exist.
About sectionā¦didn't even look professional and there was zero posts.
That was the beginning of the red flag.
As I'm editing the post, I just realized that the name of the company I applied to and the one that claimed to invite me for an interview are completely different šš
Thank God shaā¦. just imagine I had prepared for this interview and did it, then I'll be praying to get the job only for my dreams to be shattered.
I would have even had to wake up before 8.30 just because I needed to be on a call by then.
Anywaysā¦here's to better job offers. We no dey give up for hereš
See you next timeee
Amaš¤
Nigeria could have happened to youšš