So I had my second call this afternoon and I was right, it took the whole half hour.
My company uses the star method so the first ten minutes was answering four questions. Those are the, Tell me about a time when you had a conflict working with another department and how did you handle it, type questions.
I’ve been in both sides of interviews with these before so those went fine.
Then she went on to explain what is going on with the warehouses and the people in place now. She did a good job and answered many of my questions with her background information on the situation there, so a lot of the questions I had written down I was able to just scratch them off. I still had a few questions and she knew most of the answers. She has been to all the warehouses but you can tell she wasn’t too hands on with them.
There’s going to be a ton to do and it’s right up my alley for what I like to do. So that was good. So my main question was with which island I could live on. The job description shows travel as up to
60% of the time. So I asked, since there is so much travel with the position, is it possible to be based on any of the islands. Unfortunately, she said that there is one President and one VP of Operations and they are all based in Oahu. So it sounds like no flexibility there so I just moved on to my next question.
After I was finished with my questions she said that there were a couple more applicants but she was going to set up a Skype conference with me, her, the VP of Operations and the President of the Hawaii warehouses.
So I either made it to the last round or I am the last round.
The odds are really good I will get offered this job. I’m sure I won’t get offered the position at the next round. It would probably come a few days after. With not being able to be on a different island pretty much off the table, it will really depend on the salary. From what I read and in talking to others on the island, the cost of living isn’t always reflected in salaries so I’m not holding my breath. The only way I’m going to live on Oahu is with a substantial raise.
Depending how the Skype conference with the President goes, I still may bring up the other islands again. I would only bring it up if is going extremely well and the timing is right. Otherwise, I will let that go and see what the offer is.
So, I probably have another week or two before I know more. Although, she also asked how quick I could get out there. I told her I was surprised by that question on my first call, thinking they should have some guidelines but of course they don’t.
But I told her I talked to my HR VP and he didn’t really know either but ended out saying 30 days.