Job Stuff
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:24 pm
Well, I had an all-day interview with CarMax. After working for a credit card company for 12 1/2 years, I guess it makes sense to go with a used car dealer. CarMax is in a very interesting position right now: think about working for a business whose success is entirely dependent upon consumer credit and gasoline...
It actually went pretty well. If I do NOT get the job, I think it will only be because they think that I am overqualified (i.e., that I will take it just long enough until I can find something better). They commented specifically that, for me, it would involve 'stepping back' a bit, but hey, I'm OLD, and we old people have no problem with stepping back a bit, in fact, we kind of look forward to it. But I don't think that this is something you actually say out loud during an interview. But the job is pretty good, and it is actually something that I would enjoy doing, so I did my best to persuade them that 'stepping back' will not be a problem.
There are a lot of former Capital One people there (there is kind of a circuit around here, with people moving from Circuit City to Capital One to CarMax, in various ways and forms). And they do a lot of stuff very much like Capital One, including burying you with very heavy testing at the very start of the day.
The hardest test was the drug test. I happen to have a very shy bladder, and it didn't help that she insisted on holding my... oh, wait, that's a different fantasy, never mind, the problem wasn't the tester being there, the problem was that I just didn't have to, um, go for a while, but after I drank a couple glasses of water, then went off with them to lunch, at which I drank copious amounts of ice tea, well, I could have kept the testing lab busy for WEEKS. But given the design of the jars that they make you use, I think it is all just more proof that God is male; I would think that it would to be pretty difficult for a female to, well, fill those jars without any, um, complications.
At the end of the day, when I was finishing up with the attorney who would be my manager, she mentioned that I had done very well on the morning's testing (analytics, deductive reasoning, a math test and some other stuff), to the extent that they were joking that someone else must have been in the room with me, because my scores were too high for one person; I take that as a good sign.
The attorney who would be my manager is a hottie, by the way.
Also not something to say out loud during an interview (I DIDN'T say it out loud. But she is. A hottie, I mean.)
It WOULD be nice to have a job soon...
It actually went pretty well. If I do NOT get the job, I think it will only be because they think that I am overqualified (i.e., that I will take it just long enough until I can find something better). They commented specifically that, for me, it would involve 'stepping back' a bit, but hey, I'm OLD, and we old people have no problem with stepping back a bit, in fact, we kind of look forward to it. But I don't think that this is something you actually say out loud during an interview. But the job is pretty good, and it is actually something that I would enjoy doing, so I did my best to persuade them that 'stepping back' will not be a problem.
There are a lot of former Capital One people there (there is kind of a circuit around here, with people moving from Circuit City to Capital One to CarMax, in various ways and forms). And they do a lot of stuff very much like Capital One, including burying you with very heavy testing at the very start of the day.
The hardest test was the drug test. I happen to have a very shy bladder, and it didn't help that she insisted on holding my... oh, wait, that's a different fantasy, never mind, the problem wasn't the tester being there, the problem was that I just didn't have to, um, go for a while, but after I drank a couple glasses of water, then went off with them to lunch, at which I drank copious amounts of ice tea, well, I could have kept the testing lab busy for WEEKS. But given the design of the jars that they make you use, I think it is all just more proof that God is male; I would think that it would to be pretty difficult for a female to, well, fill those jars without any, um, complications.
At the end of the day, when I was finishing up with the attorney who would be my manager, she mentioned that I had done very well on the morning's testing (analytics, deductive reasoning, a math test and some other stuff), to the extent that they were joking that someone else must have been in the room with me, because my scores were too high for one person; I take that as a good sign.
The attorney who would be my manager is a hottie, by the way.
Also not something to say out loud during an interview (I DIDN'T say it out loud. But she is. A hottie, I mean.)
It WOULD be nice to have a job soon...
