Well I’m sure you will be remembered…
my worse interview was for a sure start centre . I was very well qualified for the position, and it was great money (think they are all just about gone now as it is)
applied in the February . The position was for about 15 hours based at the centre at the bottom of our road - perfect at the time.
however sadly I never heard back. Untill mid may , when out of the blue I got a phone call for an interview.
very excitedly I drove to their head office with my rarely used handbag (relevant later)
we were half way through the interview and I knew I was answering questions well and they liked my qualifications. Then they asked about the commute to their head office and would that be ok . Que a bit of confusion, as I had applied for the job at the bottom of my road - not at head office.
the interview panel where very adamant that they had never had a job advertised for the local site , but I knew it hundred 100% was (I wouldn’t have applied otherwise as the wage wouldn’t cover the commute 🤪)
anyway we carry on with the interview but I’m not really paying attention because I know I’m right and they are wrong , when I remembered that I had printed out the job at the job centre (remember when they printed out like big long receipts??) months ago. Adamant that I was onto a big discovery, asked the ladies to hang on just a minute and I suddenly start routing though this massive handbag full off old bits of paper (I am cringing writing this I don’t know what possessed me) while the ladies looked on. Anyway I found this great big receipt type job advert , held it up and shouted “ah ha ! I knew it “. Far too smugly passed the tatty thing over to them. 🫣
the lady tried to ask the last question of the interview, but if I’m honest I didn’t really understand it- she had asked what I would do before the start of a session .
I knew it was all going badly wrong , not least because I had answered lots and lots of information for the other questions, and this one I really couldn’t think of anything… I went with check staff where in place , and all toys and equipment where maintained- the women were just staring at me and it was obvious I was missing something…. So I started panic answering things like - check plug sockets were covered , use the facilities so I didn’t have to go in session 🫣
tbh it was time to leave at this point .
when they rang later to say unfortunately I wasn’t successful… she spoke about that last question and said they had really wanted me to demonstrate my knowledge of the eyfs , I did feel a bit relieved, knowing that I would never have made that connection if I had sat there for a year , and it wasn’t me being stupid . The question was.
ps I have been a very successful teaching assistant/ advance teaching assistant for ten years since, and actually before the start of each session I do go for a wee. So there lady 😆😆😆