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What I Learned After An Interviewer Forgot Who I Was
I was just a number and someone that was largely forgotten about
I am about to start my career as an attorney at the start of next week after spending six years as a special education teacher at an urban school district. The transition from teacher to attorney was a bit difficult because I had a hard time securing a job after law school.
The past few days, one episode related to the interviewing process has stayed with me. I went to a networking event towards the tail end of my last year of law school, and the stakes were lower than usual because I had recently gotten a job and didn’t necessarily feel the need to try that hard at networking anymore.
I ran into someone who interviewed me for a job I did not get a few months before. However, I figured that the interview went well because she was my initial interviewer, and I advanced to the next round of interviews, and I figured that talking with her was still a good networking opportunity. I approached her, said hello, and asked how everything was going.
This is the part where I tell you about how she said she wished they could have hired me and how strong a candidate I was.
Wrong — she was very polite and cordial and said hello back. Then she asked me what my…
