SECURE the Job Journey - Day 42
Plan for the Day
Get on the Energy Consultant interview
Write thank you notes to the interviewer and skedge them to go out tomorrow morning
FINISH the last bit of sprucing up the Budget Spready
Address LinkedIn messages to skedge more calls
Apply to 5+ jobs on the Job Spready
Send notes on LinkedIn to 5 folks each with the following job titles and keywords
Technoeconomic Analyst
Econometrics
Life cycle cost
Geospatial Consultant
Climate
What I Actually Executed
I knooooooooow what I said yesterday about the number of tasks, buuuuuuut some of these are quick… and I felt a little ambitious. I got fully through the Tasks 1, 3, & 4. As for Task 2, I wrote up the notes, but I don’t have my interviewers’ emails. So they are just sitting in my drafts. Task 5 collected DUST today. With Task 6, I realized that I was overthinking the notes and messing with my flow. I sent messages for all the keywords but “climate”
Results/Updates
I didn’t get the GIS Analyst job I interviewed for this week. But I got a one-way interview request for a Decarbonization role! After the AMAAAAAAAZING Energy Consultant interview I had today, I feel confident about doing this video interview. I can relax and gather my thoughts because I know they are actually there lol! My mind went blank over the last two one-way interviews. Also I got a call back for another GIS Analyst role. Lots of movement today!
Reflection
The devil TRIIIIIIIIIIIIED it. Right before my interview this morning, I saw an email from the recruiter for the GIS Analyst position I interviewed for this week letting me know they went with someone else. See mental temptation.
Despite that, I KILLED this interview. It felt natural. Convo flowed. Like God was REALLY speaking through me. The position aligns with my skills and goal. I was able to bring in how I approach utility problems from various angles. My interview prep framework centered me and helped me feel confident in not only knowing the job, but what I bring to it. I brought out my technical understanding, my people skills, even my hobbies of gardening. Every question lit an excited spark in me rather than dread and uncertainty. Maybe this is a sign. When I interview for a role and I’m actually excited during the interview and conversation flows, maybe that’s God telling me intuitively “this is where you need to be”. Every interview or opportunity I’ve had where I felt more excited than nervous always ended up being MINE. Also, I learned just to focus on one project or work experience when it came to answering the questions. Sticking to one project made it easy to pick apart how different parts of that project helped grow me in various ways relating to what they need.
I’m really finding my footing in this job SECURING space.
With the interview from today and Monday, connecting with the right people put me in the running. God, idk what’s gonna happen, but I KNOW it’s gonna be good. Even with this week of fruit, I’m still gonna keep to my job securing stuff tho. I’m not gonna let my foot off the gas until I have a job offer in hand.
Also, this interview gave me some new verbiage like:
Managing client expectations
Identifying the scope of work
OKAYYYY! More tools added to my job-SECURING toolbox. At least with interviews I’m learning how THEY describe my work in addition to getting better at explaining it. Plus they affirmed what I was thinking yesterday about keeping it simple. I know I’m smart, but when I explain things to people I wanna keep it simple.
I’m still grateful for that GIS Analyst interview even though I didn’t get it because it helped me dive into my GIS skills more and effectively speak on them. I’m still grateful for the Sustainability Analyst interview regardless of how things go because it showed me the gaps in my understanding of MY SKILLS. Those two interviews really helped me prep for this interview today tbh. Lol I guess we saved the best for last. Wherever I end up, I know I will be fine.
