Received a nomination today!!

2024candidate

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So I went in for my interview about two weeks ago and just received a letter stating I have received one of two spots of 200 applicants!! This was a bit of a shock to me as it was my first interview for anything ever.. and I didn't get the impression that it went that well.

I did get a question which I had never read about online, though (I'm sure it's out there somewhere), but I was tripped up slightly by it: They asked me "What is the message you want us to get from your essay?" I asked them to clarify to give me time to think and they said "What's the point of it".. anyway, this tripped me up because I had submitted the application and essay over two months ago and didn't have a copy of it so I could hardly remember what I wrote.

Hopefully that helps someone going into their interview be more prepared in the event they ask that question.. Maybe it could have been to see if I wrote it? I'm not THAT strong of a writer, so... not sure.
 
Congratulations on your nomination. Good lesson for the future. ALWAYS re-read your application materials, essays, resumes, writing samples, and everything else you submitted before job interviews, promotion boards, and any other similar events. As an interviewer, an applicant not being intimately familiar with what he or she submitted, after I have taken up my time reading it, is an automatic disqualifier.
 
Congratulations on your nomination. Good lesson for the future. ALWAYS re-read your application materials, essays, resumes, writing samples, and everything else you submitted before job interviews, promotion boards, and any other similar events. As an interviewer, an applicant not being intimately familiar with what he or she submitted, after I have taken up my time reading it, is an automatic disqualifier.
Glad my interviewers didn't see it that way... I had no way to access the essay and made the mistake of not saving it.. Good advice for the future though. Thanks!
 
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