Predicament of the day

Great job that’s been on my radar for a couple weeks but am getting to right now, day before the application is due.

It’s a small non-profit that organizes community sustainability projects, “the perfect meld of my work experience and educational background”. It’s kind of an ideal job, especially since the pay range is $30-70,000 (though I suspect there’s a typo there).

The catch: I interviewed with the place a year and a half ago! And I never heard back from them after the interview. And this position reports to the woman I interviewed with.

It’s a little odd, to say the least.

A fair-sized pet-peeve of mine is when interviewers don’t follow-up after interviews, even a curt but polite “thank you for the interview, we’ve decided to pursue other candidates”.

(Out of all the jobs I’ve interviewed for, nearly a quarter didn’t actually tell me that they didn’t give me the job, I just assume so having not heard from them a week, a month, a year after wards).

I thought I interviewed well* (future topic of post); the woman/interviewer and I are alumni of the same graduate program, and have several mutual friends/colleagues. But she never got back to me after the interview to tell me if that I didn’t get the job.

Which puts me in an awkward situation: it’s a great job, one could say “exactly” what I’m looking for. But I didn’t get the job last time I interviewed, was that because she thought I was bad candidate? Or that there was someone better? Or that the last position was ‘too junior’ (part-time paying $16/hr, I think).

More importantly, the challenge will be finessing a cover letter that acknowledges that we met and I interviewed with her before, and projects positively my aspirations for this job, while not making it so obvious that I’ve been unemployed since then.

Oh, the joys of job hunting...