First Impressions

Had an interview for an educator position at a childcare centre. Hadn't had one in awhile. But this time I think I was a bit more ready. 

Last few times I was apparently too under dressed. Didn't know how I had to dress at the time for interviews. I thought nice pair of pants and a polo was good enough. However I only found out at a compulsory job search training thing. Unfortunately while I was driving to the interview I noticed I was still wearing nail polish on my right hand from the weekend (read about it in my mushroom picking weekend post). I tried to scrap it off but it didn't work so I just consciously avoided showing my nails up.

So the one thing about this job that makes this job quite concerning is that it's in Cheltenham. The drive took 45 minutes in off peak time!?! While they I asked about the other centres linked with their one so they showed me a giant map and pointed out several areas even further from Box Hill. They asked me where I was from and I told them. They were quite shocked, looking at the distance on the giant map. But this was at the end of the interview so most of the interview went reasonably like any interview.

Probably the thing that was different was the Chinese test. I was told initially they were looking for a Chinese speaking educator to speak with the children and parents. They were informed that I was only a conversationalist so they had one of their Chinese speaking converse with me. It went well enough that I convinced her I could least speak in Chinese. 

I think it was better than my other interviews I've had before. It has been several days since so I'm not quite hopeful. Try get myself another interview.