Nervous kids :)

I’m on my to Cambridge University now!! I haven’t even had time to rest and now I’m on my to another milk run. Since coming back from St Andrews, I’ve been working crazy hours and days to make sure the integration is a success so I just lost track of time. Was going to say how times passes by when you’re having fun. Well actually, it is fun

Anyway, last week I did my first interview session and have to say I absolutely loved it. Making those kids squirm… muhahahah… Beauty about it was that it was one on one interviews so I had free rein to do whatever I want.

The interview room was fairly large so I was tempted to sit on the opposite side of the table and spin around as they came in (Dr Evil style.. muhahahahh…) but no that’s not my style . I made them sit on my right side while I asked the normal boring questions.

The questions were like how do you handle pressure, what do you do in situations like xxx and the usual why Sungard? Some kids were amazing that blew me away with how confident and prepared they were while others were nervous as hell but once you probe you know they were smart hard working kids. Others you know they were mommy and daddy’s little pampered kid. The nervous kids at times you had to either stop them to calm them down or I’d tell them to move on cos they were rambling. I think I made it worse by timing my interviews… muhahahaha

One interview was an internal as she was an intern(?) appying for the graduate scheme. I had to let her through so that I wouldn’t be the cause of her rejection. Don’t want angry people working near me

I had another kid who was rather over ambitious. I asked him in 5 years what was his plans to reach his goals and he told me that he was going to be a developer for a year, consultant the next year then the following a project manager. Rather over ambitious to achive though I did something similar at Fujitsu (developer to team leader to project manager) in the last 3 years but that’s cos I was buddies with my delivery manager and I’m a whore . Unfortunately I didn’t let him through as he couldn’t back up his answers.

What I didn’t realize as well was that this kid was a year younger than me. It seems that the graduates in this country leave uni much later than Aussies. It’s a bit weird telling people you’ve been working for 5 years at 25/26 as a software engineer as they’d be expecting a year or two.

Anyway arriving soon. I’ve yet to process my Edinburgh pics…. Arrgghhhh! On a side note it’s rather surreal catching the train and blogging. It’s so beautiful once you get out of London. It’s so green!!!

Tags: interviews, kids, milk run, nervous