Buck me up
Sep. 7th, 2009 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreThe Zoo is advertising again. Recruitment pool for the Native Species Breeding Program. This is what I applied for last year and didn't even get an interview. Last time there was an actual position, not just a pool for them to consider you, but still, it's preferable to having nothing and being stuck in a goddamn lawyer's office.
I KNOW I can do this job and I'm pretty confident I can do it well. But Selection Criteria and interviews are not my forte. I see stuff that requires me to display my experience at things like public speaking and my heart sinks. I took the tours at BBO and that was good, I don't think I did too badly. I knew what I was talking about, so I was good at it. If I have to speak about anything I'm not fully confident on I get a bit weird, ala my presentation to the kids at Corrigin High School (which was followed by the actual trapping, which WAS a smashing success - despite me going "Oh crap, I never expected to actually CATCH a phascogale! How the heck do I handle this thing??"
I haven't been to Africa and worked with elephants or lions or whatever, which another applicant is bound to have. Sorry I haven't had the time or money to go there.
Essentially. I know I will have less/not as good experience as 50+ of the other applicants. BUT I CAN DO THE JOB AND I NEED TO WORK AT THE ZOO NOT FOR A STUPID LAWYER!!! It's so disheartening, I think, "Why bother? I'm not going to get a look in anyway."
Encourage me people. I should apply anyway, so maybe eventually someone will go, "Hey, this girl isn't as great as some of the others, but she applies EVERY time, maybe we should give her a try."
*sigh*
I KNOW I can do this job and I'm pretty confident I can do it well. But Selection Criteria and interviews are not my forte. I see stuff that requires me to display my experience at things like public speaking and my heart sinks. I took the tours at BBO and that was good, I don't think I did too badly. I knew what I was talking about, so I was good at it. If I have to speak about anything I'm not fully confident on I get a bit weird, ala my presentation to the kids at Corrigin High School (which was followed by the actual trapping, which WAS a smashing success - despite me going "Oh crap, I never expected to actually CATCH a phascogale! How the heck do I handle this thing??"
I haven't been to Africa and worked with elephants or lions or whatever, which another applicant is bound to have. Sorry I haven't had the time or money to go there.
Essentially. I know I will have less/not as good experience as 50+ of the other applicants. BUT I CAN DO THE JOB AND I NEED TO WORK AT THE ZOO NOT FOR A STUPID LAWYER!!! It's so disheartening, I think, "Why bother? I'm not going to get a look in anyway."
Encourage me people. I should apply anyway, so maybe eventually someone will go, "Hey, this girl isn't as great as some of the others, but she applies EVERY time, maybe we should give her a try."
*sigh*
