I attended the interview. I thought it went pretty well but I was asked a few questions I wasn't too prepared for, but the interviewer praised me and said I was well prepared. She even gave me a little tour of the office. It's pretty nice, much smaller than what I've worked in before though. I found out the position is really similar to my previous job, which I do mind a little bit, but I was advised that it'd be very busy... so as long as I'm busy, I'm happy. There may be occasional slow periods though, but I was informed there would still be lots to do during that time.
The interview asked me a lot of behavioural questions, and told me a bit about the company and position. She would ask me a few times if I had any questions for her, and I had a few, but when she would ask I may have run a little dry. However I recalled on what she mentioned and asked her to check on my resume, I can't believe I did that. But I wanted to see how my job duties would be like in real time, so why not start on my own? I felt bad afterwards because she was doing it for free for me... when I would get paid to do this in the future, but I wrote a thank you letter to explain what I was thinking at that moment.
After the interview I went to go visit some friends for lunch breaks. While waiting for my friends, I received a call from the recruiter, asking me how I thought I did. I told her I thought it went well but I could have improved. She heard from the interview I was asked some hard questions, and that they would like to extend the offer to me. I asked for some time to think about it. The position starts immediately. I talked about it with my friends for a bit and then accepted it shortly after. I asked questions about attire and vacation days... and found out that the vacation weeks would not be approved as that was near my contract finish date. The recruiter asked me if I could start on Monday, but I asked if Tuesday would be okay since I need to work things out with my current employer. She said she would ask the manager and get back to me.
She got back to me about half an hour later, and confirmed that Tuesday would be my start date. I have a feeling I could have pushed it for Wednesday, but I know the client wanted someone to start right away. I just don't know how I feel about resigning from my current employer so soon... I talked it over with a recruiting friend and I've decided to do the resignation on Monday before I leave the office that day. It might be a bit awkward, but I need to finish up a project. I also will try to finish an upcoming project too, and then I believe after those two projects I will be done my work.
At first I was very excited to get the job and accept. After hearing all the details about a busy environment, I quickly became infatuated. However, right now I'm sort of not sure, but I haven't work in it yet, so I really don't know much enough to judge. The recruiter said we'd talk after my first day to see if it's still a good fit or if it's not a good fit.
When the interviewer told me the ideal start date, I couldn't say I could start within two weeks notice to my employer. I said I could start within that date. They smiled really enthusiastically. I took that as she may have thought I was desperate, or she really liked my answer. If the job could start later in the month, it would work for me, and it wouldn't feel awkward handing in my resignation. But it'll be awkward, it's so sudden for me, since I'm going to be at my part-time during the evenings and weekends until my last day of work there, so I got to do my best on Monday.
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