Friday, September 12, 2008

Second Interview

So yesterday afternoon I went for a bike ride for like an hour. I got back around 5pm and had a couple messages. I checked my messages. One of the women that I met with yesterday for the interview called and asked me to come back for a second interview today. I am going back in today around 3:30pm. I hope this is a good sign, since originally they said they were going to start call backs next week and they called me back the same day. I had to fill out an assessment survey that tried to pin point my behavior and how I interact with others. I thought that some of the points were spot on so I wanted to paste it here... What are your thoughts about what the survey came up about me:

Carlee is gregarious and sociable. She will be seen as a good mixer both on or off the job. She can be obliging and accommodating; that is, she likes to work with people and help them. She prefers working for a participative manager. She does her best work in this kind of environment. She tries to influence others through a personal relationship and many times will perform services to develop this relationship. Carlee can combine and balance enthusiasm and patience. She wants to know what others think of her. She wants and tries to please. Her goal is to have and make many friends. At work, she is good at maintaining friendly public relations. She places her focus on people. To her, strangers are just friends she hasn't met! Carlee can be sensitive to criticism of her work and take it as a personal affront. She may equate work criticism as someone's personal displeasure with her. She can be friendly with others in many situations, but primarily with groups of established friends and associates. She is sociable and enjoys the uniqueness of each human being. Carlee likes working for managers who make quick decisions. When she has strong feelings about a particular problem, you should expect to hear these feelings, and they will probably be expressed in an emotional manner. Because of her trust and willing acceptance of people, she may misjudge the abilities of others. Decisions are made after gathering facts and supportive data. Carlee is good at giving verbal and nonverbal feedback that serves to encourage people to be open, to trust her and to see her as receptive and helpful. She prefers not disciplining people. She may sidestep direct disciplinary action because she wants to maintain the friendly relationship. She likes to participate in decision making. She is good at solving problems that deal with people. Carlee is comfortable with most people and can be quite informal and relaxed with them. Even when dealing with strangers, Carlee will attempt to put them at ease. She is people-oriented and verbally fluent. She is always concerned with other people's feelings and thoughts. She will optimistically interact with people in an assured, diplomatic and poised manner. Carlee tends to influence people to her way of thinking by using verbiage as compared with others who like to use reports. She judges others by their verbal skills and warmth. It is important for Carlee to use her people skills to "facilitate" agreement between people. She tends to look at all the things the group has in common, rather than key in on the differences. She is positive in her approach to dealing with others. She may not understand why everyone doesn't see life as she does!

Anyway, hopefully the second round interview goes well this afternoon and thanks in advance for your prayers!!

Thursday, September 11, 2008

One Month To Go

I noticed when I was posting my photo of the day today that I started the project on October 12th of last year. I only have another month left. It seems like I have been doing it forever (maybe because it has become such a routine). I am excited to finish the project. I am thinking that I might try and get a book published of all of the images (I know that they are all not the best, but I think it was an awesome idea and I think that you can see the progression over time).

Birthday Pics

Ryan wanted to take a couple silly pictures of me in a picture frame...

$5 and Under

Five Bucks And Under
What can you do with five bucks to make someone's day? Tape the exact change for a soda to a vending machine or a payphone. Pay the toll for the person behind you. Leave flowers in front of someone's house. Bake cookies for your neighbors. Put quarters in the laundry machine for the next person. Send cards with beautiful messages to anonymous people. Leave chocolate on the desk of your co-workers. Treat someone to a cup of their favorite coffee.


What are your ideas?!

Next Week

Next week is when I will find out about the interview I went to this afternoon. It seemed to go well, but I never know if I am what a company is looking for. They said that they would like to make a decision by the beginning of next week to have candidates come in for the second interview. I will keep you all updated. The ladies that I met with seemed to like me and hopefully they really did. Thanks for your prayers and kind thoughts!! I'll let you know next week what comes from it :).

Birthday Gifts

Not sure if anyone was wondering, but I thought I would post about what Ryan and I were doing for birthday gifts for each other. We decided that we would go to a thrift store and $20 in hand and find treasures for each other. This means we could buy the other a coat that the person may love, a picture frame for a piece of art you want to paint for the other person, a funny statue, etc. It should be interesting. I think we will probably wait until this weekend to actually go (since he doesn't get home from work until around 6 or so and most thrift stores close early during the week), but I will be sure to keep you updated on the gifts we find for each other :).

Game Day

Saturday is Ryan's 25th Birthday, so I am not sure if we will be watching the football game (since I think there are some surf contests that Ryan has his eye on going to), but I figured I would at least give the Wolverines a little shout out :)

Saturday, September 13
3:30 p.m. EDT
Notre Dame Stadium
South Bend, Ind.


I know that everyone seems to be considering this a 'transitional' season, but I still get pumped to watch some BLUE action. Well, if I am not able to catch it on TV, I will for sure be catching up on the stats afterwards online. GO BLUE!!