ThrobbingHood
“I’m Sorry for 2025”
What roles are these?
There's something emasculating about job interviews
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I was reading a Reddit thread where corporate and IT cacs were going to four or five interviews for mid level positions, some not even paying six figures. 
Makes sense though because a lot of entry level office jobs will try to get at least three interviews out of you just to say they've gone with a better "fit." It's only a matter of time before office shootings are as common or MORE common than school shootings.
Makes sense though because a lot of entry level office jobs will try to get at least three interviews out of you just to say they've gone with a better "fit." It's only a matter of time before office shootings are as common or MORE common than school shootings.
Financial analyst for a hospital I never worked in finance before. Was asking for someone with a cpa etc got the job. Don’t have any accounting background
Role I’m in now, everyone in my department has their masters in education I don’t. If it’s meant to be yours it will be.
ThrobbingHood
“I’m Sorry for 2025”
Respect breh. I work in finance too. I came into the industry with little to no experience in. Years later, I’m in a similar role to yours.
I was reading a Reddit thread where corporate and IT cacs were going to four or five interviews for mid level positions, some not even paying six figures.
Makes sense though because a lot of entry level office jobs will try to get at least three interviews out of you just to say they've gone with a better "fit." It's only a matter of time before office shootings are as common or MORE common than school shootings.
I had a online assessment, two phone interviews, in person interview with HR, 2 hour roleplay in a office room simulating the job, interview with the department manager or regional manager. Not done yet....Once they offer you the job, the manager said good luck you still got more proving to do.
6 weeks of testing every single day in a classroom environment where you can get sent home like survivor if your GPA drops below 85 or 90%. Some days we had two test a day.
Ive seen people get to the last week and fail out.
be a dikk in interviews. A lot of recruiters like "take charge" attitudes. If you with someone of another race, you might as well act like you already got the job and you interviewing them.
Think of it this way.
You are a black dude. You just fought some chinese army and they captured your unit.
They interview each person to decide what to do with them. You already know they think less of you. Everyone else acted like a bytch to avoid punishment. They all got axed anyways.
You up. You know they don't give a shyt about you. What do you do? You act like you ain't lost yet. You dare them to give you a blade.
Chinese dude would be like "This nikka crazy? We should see if this man has some use. Hold him for now. We may prove a competent emissary."
You got nothing to lose so act like you own the place. They might respect you for not cowering like they expect you to do.
How was your transition into the role? You say you have zero accounting or finance work so was it a lot of on the job training to get you up to speed.
Cobalt Sire
All Star
You can usually tell at the beginning of the interview whether you're going to be given a fair shot. If the interviewer is defensive, angry, or rude without cause, it's a pretty good sign that they aren't going to hire you. There's usually a certain energy in the room as well that you can pick up on if you're intuitive. That's why it's important to know your value as a person. If i've got multiple job offers, or I'm in demand, I'm not going to sit through an interview where I'm being treated poorly. It's unfortunate that so many of these recruiters are unprofessional.
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Cobalt Sire
All Star
Unfortunately, most of us go in with the exact opposite mindset, especially when we are younger. Our collective pride is in the gutter. When you grow up watching slave movies, reading about pseudo science saying your people are inferior, and not being taught the full (or any) history of Africa, you end up thinking less of yourself. On the other hand, we are bombarded, both in academia and popular media, with images of great white historical figures. Being impoverished to hell doesn't help matters.
So it's no surprise we go into the world practically begging for acceptance instead of knowing our value.
Agreed. I’m 20 years deep in my business. Granted, when I interview, it’s for executive roles and I get compliments on my resume but you know within the first sixty seconds on the meeting whether you will get the job or not.
Body language is everything. Handshake and greeting is the first signal. Notes and scribble is the second indicator. Third is posture and demeanor. If the interviewer is too relaxed, has poor posture or doesn’t take a seat directly across from you and face you in a professional manner, you may as well get up and walk out (referring to corporate gigs). Lastly, any and I mean ANY Interview that you go on and they ask you some stupid scenario based question and you have more than a decades worth of experience on your resume, you DEFINITELY aren’t getting the job and at the very least, should excuse yourself from being subjected to some random ad hoc questions being used as time filler.
