I had an interview recently for a job in publishing but I didn’t get it. I had, and still have, mixed feelings. It’s a mixture of making progress and feeling disillusioned. It was the first publishing job I had applied to in a while so I’m glad I wrote a cover letter good enough to interest the company. I certainly think the publishing work experience I’ve had helps. The role was for a reputable academic publisher and was going to be a challenge, and so I was naturally disappointed they didn’t want me to go back for the second round.
This disappointment has been simmering for the last week or two and I’ve been having doubts about the whole getting into publishing thing. Is it really for me after all? Fortunately this mood was captured most unexpectedly in a Telegraph column today.
The Labour party and The Conservative Party are to have their conferences in September which will effectively kick-start the election campaign. Gordon Brown and David Cameron will need to emphatically answer our question “Why should I vote for you?” Mr Brogan had this to say:
In the case of Mr Brown, ….. his friends …….. have come to the view that he has never worked out why he wanted the job. Mr Cameron, in contrast, has the answer but has yet to find a compelling way of communicating it to the voters. [Benedict Brogan]
When I feel like Gordon Brown I want to give up and don’t really see the point in trying to apply for a job. What I needed to get out of this kind of episode of self doubt was a new approach, and today I found it. It is to think of a job interview as like answering “Why should I vote for you?” I’ll see how that goes hey.
The third in what seems to be becoming a series of youthful photos of the Cabinet. Watch out for more to come. Image courtesy of Neil
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