Alright, so back in August one of our O/N team leads just up and left.
2 weeks later, they officially opened the position to whomever. I felt like I was ready for the job seeing as I'm very proficient at the nightly activities, even taking on some actual responsibilities in delegating individuals to certain areas. It took my superiors forever, but they finally got around to interviewing me, which was a 3 part process. I had an interview once a week for the last 3 weeks. As you can imagine, that still seems to be an incredibly slow and sluggish process to wait nearly all of September with nothing happening. Regardless, there are only 3 other applicants, two of which are also over night team members which have yet to of been interviewed. I'm obviously anxious about the position, even having to push my ETL's constantly asking them when interviews were even going to start, etc. In the mean time, I asked for coaching and so forth until they finally did happen.
Now I'm thinking I may have possibly rushed things. I'm a terrible interviewer, dreadfully terrible actually. Even with the coaching, it seemed not to matter, I crashed and burned. I won't really get into to details unless it's really asked for, but I believe I interviewed so poorly that it has made me question the process in itself. I have a meeting with my store manager on Friday morning to talk about some issues I've had, hoping that he can be persuaded and lean towards my favor. I'm trying to be positive and optimistic, but because of my poor interview performance, I feel like it has all been lost and whatever I talk to my store manager about Friday morning, is mute.
I don't know what I'm really asking here, maybe for advice? I don't question the validity of the questions that were asked (4 questions in each interview, 12 total), I understand their importance. However, the questions are still pretty bad if I really had to say so. They don't display leadership, they convey it. Which is one of the biggest issues I have with the entire process. Because of my poor interview performance, I feel that it is getting in my way of being able to develop myself as a better team member/team lead, person, and so forth. I feel like it's completely killing my opportunity to move up and advance myself. I also feel that I'm not going to be given the proper chance to actually display what I can do for them because of some measly questions which I was able to answer, just not to their standards.
From my understanding, my ETL's, HR, other superiors will not pass me onto the DTL until I'm able to compose my self effectively and efficiently in an interview process, regardless if I'm a mosiah of the logistical process. Which to me doesn't really make sense, it almost seems to be backwards logic. I understand that there is a completely other side of being a O/N TL which the interview process can pick out those traits and skills, such as: writing reviews, CCA's, being able to compose yourself to others, other paper work, etc.
However, these are all things that can be taught. Teaching someone to be a leader can't. It's emulated.
I'm of course bias, but I believe I have the proper leadership qualities that 2 of my current TL's do not poses, I feel that they were able to obtain their TL positions simply because they were able to convey correctly what a "good" leader would do in such situations. Yet, when they get into the actual field, they fall flat on their faces and the entire team has to witness and experience the failures with them. It's a concern for me because I feel that the same mistake could be made once again and with 4th quarter around the corner and our current O/N team 11 positions unfilled, it makes the logic that much more confusing, frustrating, and irritating to understand. Even if I don't receive the position, staying on as a TM I'd still have the same concerns, because I would have to work under them, watching their disaster train run its course.
At the end of the day though, my superiors are going to decide exactly what they want to do and it'll be that. Which is disappointing and depressing, but I suppose this is what that Friday morning meeting is for. It's my last attempt to try and sell myself and bring up these concerns and issues at the same time. I'm just not sure exactly how to approach it and prepare myself. Any advice would be helpful. I actually want this job very badly and I've tried to display my passion and love for the logistical process, but....I just feel like it's all for nothing because of these interview questions ;\
2 weeks later, they officially opened the position to whomever. I felt like I was ready for the job seeing as I'm very proficient at the nightly activities, even taking on some actual responsibilities in delegating individuals to certain areas. It took my superiors forever, but they finally got around to interviewing me, which was a 3 part process. I had an interview once a week for the last 3 weeks. As you can imagine, that still seems to be an incredibly slow and sluggish process to wait nearly all of September with nothing happening. Regardless, there are only 3 other applicants, two of which are also over night team members which have yet to of been interviewed. I'm obviously anxious about the position, even having to push my ETL's constantly asking them when interviews were even going to start, etc. In the mean time, I asked for coaching and so forth until they finally did happen.
Now I'm thinking I may have possibly rushed things. I'm a terrible interviewer, dreadfully terrible actually. Even with the coaching, it seemed not to matter, I crashed and burned. I won't really get into to details unless it's really asked for, but I believe I interviewed so poorly that it has made me question the process in itself. I have a meeting with my store manager on Friday morning to talk about some issues I've had, hoping that he can be persuaded and lean towards my favor. I'm trying to be positive and optimistic, but because of my poor interview performance, I feel like it has all been lost and whatever I talk to my store manager about Friday morning, is mute.
I don't know what I'm really asking here, maybe for advice? I don't question the validity of the questions that were asked (4 questions in each interview, 12 total), I understand their importance. However, the questions are still pretty bad if I really had to say so. They don't display leadership, they convey it. Which is one of the biggest issues I have with the entire process. Because of my poor interview performance, I feel that it is getting in my way of being able to develop myself as a better team member/team lead, person, and so forth. I feel like it's completely killing my opportunity to move up and advance myself. I also feel that I'm not going to be given the proper chance to actually display what I can do for them because of some measly questions which I was able to answer, just not to their standards.
From my understanding, my ETL's, HR, other superiors will not pass me onto the DTL until I'm able to compose my self effectively and efficiently in an interview process, regardless if I'm a mosiah of the logistical process. Which to me doesn't really make sense, it almost seems to be backwards logic. I understand that there is a completely other side of being a O/N TL which the interview process can pick out those traits and skills, such as: writing reviews, CCA's, being able to compose yourself to others, other paper work, etc.
However, these are all things that can be taught. Teaching someone to be a leader can't. It's emulated.
I'm of course bias, but I believe I have the proper leadership qualities that 2 of my current TL's do not poses, I feel that they were able to obtain their TL positions simply because they were able to convey correctly what a "good" leader would do in such situations. Yet, when they get into the actual field, they fall flat on their faces and the entire team has to witness and experience the failures with them. It's a concern for me because I feel that the same mistake could be made once again and with 4th quarter around the corner and our current O/N team 11 positions unfilled, it makes the logic that much more confusing, frustrating, and irritating to understand. Even if I don't receive the position, staying on as a TM I'd still have the same concerns, because I would have to work under them, watching their disaster train run its course.
At the end of the day though, my superiors are going to decide exactly what they want to do and it'll be that. Which is disappointing and depressing, but I suppose this is what that Friday morning meeting is for. It's my last attempt to try and sell myself and bring up these concerns and issues at the same time. I'm just not sure exactly how to approach it and prepare myself. Any advice would be helpful. I actually want this job very badly and I've tried to display my passion and love for the logistical process, but....I just feel like it's all for nothing because of these interview questions ;\