wellshivermetimbers
20-01-10, 17:14
Tomorrow afternoon at 1pm i have a job interview and i am quite scared. I have had panic attacks for years now and sometimes i think so much about the interview before the day it arrives that i just suffer from the 'expected' anxiety when i am actually being interviewed. This interview is a first for me because it is for a job i haven't applied for. I will tell you the story.
I sign on at the Job Centre every other Thursday and last weeks sign on was just another typical sign on except for one thing. The girl who i saw last week at the Job Centre said there is this new scheme for people who have been out of work for over 6 months (I have been for 18 months). The scheme is that some companies working in conjunction with the Centre can give guaranteed interviews to people but there is no guarantee of a job after. The Job Centre employee there and then phoned a company up, gave them my details and said i have an interview on the 21st (tomorrow). I on the one hand think this is good that the Job Centres are positively trying to find you work but being the sufferer of anxiety i am, i still have concerns.
Concern#1 - Unlike most jobs where you actually seek out the job and read the job description and so by the time you have sent off an application form, you have a solid idea of what the employer is looking for, i haven't got that with this job interview. I know its for an admin position but thats it and i have been left no contact number for the place i am going to be interviewed tomorrow and there is no website for the place either. Through research i know it is an admin job in a care home but thats as much as i know. Therefore usually people are concerned enough when they know what the employer is looking for and have had afew weeks to prepare answers whereas i don't know what i am going to be asked and have only had a week to go through things in my mind. As it interviews weren't hectic enough eh?
Concern#2 I have an issue with travelling on public transport and if i was successful with this interview and started work there it is almost 9 miles away from where i live and is a 2 bus journey. I have had to get off buses after 2 minutes so i am worried about that.
Concern#3 This concern is a general feeling of being overwhelmed by everything. I am finding time is going so fast and it is making me more and more edgy about tomorrow, my travelling and the actual interview itself. I am a 27 year old guy but i admit i am scared.
Can anyone give me any words of help or suggestions before the big day tomorrow? Any tips of how to limit panic would be so greatly appreciated.
My heart keeps skipping beats aswell and that is worrying me aswell as everything else. Is that normal at this time? Half of me reasons with the skipped heartbeats thinking it must be because i am anxious and the other half says my skipped heartbearts happening at this very moment in time will cause me damage...irrational thoughts i do hope!!
thanks in advance people and god bless you all!
Dave
Birmingham
UK
I sign on at the Job Centre every other Thursday and last weeks sign on was just another typical sign on except for one thing. The girl who i saw last week at the Job Centre said there is this new scheme for people who have been out of work for over 6 months (I have been for 18 months). The scheme is that some companies working in conjunction with the Centre can give guaranteed interviews to people but there is no guarantee of a job after. The Job Centre employee there and then phoned a company up, gave them my details and said i have an interview on the 21st (tomorrow). I on the one hand think this is good that the Job Centres are positively trying to find you work but being the sufferer of anxiety i am, i still have concerns.
Concern#1 - Unlike most jobs where you actually seek out the job and read the job description and so by the time you have sent off an application form, you have a solid idea of what the employer is looking for, i haven't got that with this job interview. I know its for an admin position but thats it and i have been left no contact number for the place i am going to be interviewed tomorrow and there is no website for the place either. Through research i know it is an admin job in a care home but thats as much as i know. Therefore usually people are concerned enough when they know what the employer is looking for and have had afew weeks to prepare answers whereas i don't know what i am going to be asked and have only had a week to go through things in my mind. As it interviews weren't hectic enough eh?
Concern#2 I have an issue with travelling on public transport and if i was successful with this interview and started work there it is almost 9 miles away from where i live and is a 2 bus journey. I have had to get off buses after 2 minutes so i am worried about that.
Concern#3 This concern is a general feeling of being overwhelmed by everything. I am finding time is going so fast and it is making me more and more edgy about tomorrow, my travelling and the actual interview itself. I am a 27 year old guy but i admit i am scared.
Can anyone give me any words of help or suggestions before the big day tomorrow? Any tips of how to limit panic would be so greatly appreciated.
My heart keeps skipping beats aswell and that is worrying me aswell as everything else. Is that normal at this time? Half of me reasons with the skipped heartbeats thinking it must be because i am anxious and the other half says my skipped heartbearts happening at this very moment in time will cause me damage...irrational thoughts i do hope!!
thanks in advance people and god bless you all!
Dave
Birmingham
UK