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I had my interview with the Sunnyvale Library this morning, and I think it went well. Just about everything they asked me, I have prior specific applicable experience. But I am up to here with their heel-dragging hiring process, because they said I should know within two weeks (which seems a little long for such a call back, given what comes next) whether they wanted me in for a second interview! I mean OMG! Having two interviews in and of itself isn't that unusual (we ourselves at De Anza Library have just instituted something similar for hiring students), but after already having a screening test back in December, and the long wait between that and this...? It's getting pretty ridiculous.

OTOH, after hearing the specific job setup today, I really want this job. I have been viewing the OML as a kind of last resort, a job I could be sure of being offered after everything else had petered out (I didn't get the Academic Services job by the way, which is ok -- after hearing its specific duties, I'm not sure I would have liked it, and they would have wanted me to come in at 8:00 AM anyway, which is past my threshold of pain). Now it looks like I'm going to be in the unfavourable position of having to decide one way on the other on the (expected) OML offer without knowing where I really stand with Sunnyvale. I will either have to accept and kick myself when Sunnyvale calls me again, or turn it down and take the chance of coming out at the end with nothing. If I only had a day or two of "limbo" time I could probably ask them to wait and see if Sunnyvale hires me, but now I know it's going to be two weeks at least, and Judy will have needed to make a decision well before that because she needs the new person in place by then, basically (the last day I can work as a temp is the 9th of March).

*sesplode*

Date: Feb. 21st, 2007 11:20 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] lupagreenwolf.livejournal.com
Good luck!!!

Date: Feb. 22nd, 2007 12:06 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] bluesidhe.livejournal.com
Hey...Was that you I saw at P-Con running down the stairs and giving me a wave, like some little Flutter-Fey... It looked like you, anyways. I haven't seen you in so long, and it was just brief.

Blue

Date: Feb. 22nd, 2007 08:43 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] zaecus.livejournal.com
I realize it's not the most pleasant prospect, but you could take the OML job with the awareness that, apparently, you'll be there at least a month before you find out anything about the Sunnyvale job, and since they seem to consider unnecessary delay a part of the process, let them know (once hired), that you will need a week or two to extricate yourself from the job you needed to take in order to feed yourself during the decision-making process.

Date: Feb. 22nd, 2007 04:49 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ahril.livejournal.com
You have another choice you're not looking at.

If I were you, I'd take the OML job, and then if Sunnyvale hired me, I'd take that too, even if only being in the OML job for two weeks. That way, I'm not left with nothing and I get the best if it's offered.

"But I can't do that to {insert name of colleague at deAnza)." you say? Yes, you can. This is business, and you must make a business decision without letting personal relationships cloud your judgement.

Yes, it's an assholic and bitchy thing to do, but unfortunately that is the way the current financial systems of the world work. You can't leave yourself without a job at all or settle for less than you could simply because you are friends with someone who might hire you for one of the possible choices.

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