Had an interview with U.S. Airways. I know, it's the worst airline in terms of customer satisfaction and has a bad overall reputation. This is a position with their pricing/yield management department doing statistical and econometric analysis/forecasting and there is no customer interaction. I'm actually pretty psyched about this because these are the things I really liked doing in school and the other jobs I mentioned in the last blog are all customer service/management/sales based which I am NOT good at. This job is definitely matched better to my skills, and putting my resume side by side with the job description things look really good. My interviewer was not some HR douchebag trying to stump me with "gotcha" questions about a time that you saved kittens from trees while working 23 hours a day at the orphanage and using your people skills to persuade underlings to save the day in the work place by preventing earthquakes while making customers orgasm through Jesus-like charisma, but somebody who actually worked in the department who was testing me with stats/math/logic questions and asked about what coursework I did that was relevant to the position. I felt like it was more an assessment of my ability to perform the tasks than some bizarre character assassination/interview hybrid.
Their HR department is super slow though. They sent me an email 10 days ago when I applied back during spring break. I responded about 40 minutes after it was sent and didn't hear back until yesterday, when they told me I'd have a phone interview the next day. My interviewer was very cordial and I asked her about it. She said they didn't tell her she had an in person interview until 2 weeks after the phone interview and didn't give her the job offer until 3 weeks after the in person interview. So I'd conservatively guess I'll know for sure by late October/early November.
The benefits/salary for this job are AMAZING also. Interviewer said their department pretty much takes free flights to various tourist destinations and hangs out every weekend. The reviews from employees on glassdoor.com are unfavourable, but this particular position is right up my alley.
I'm not getting my hopes up and I'm already setting backup plans considering the high chance of this falling through. If I don't manage to get this, I'll be selling newspapers over the phone part time for $10/hr in 4 hr shifts while I look for a good full time job. If I don't find one, I'm thinking about graduate school again.
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