A second interview!

The phone rang tonight at 6 o’clock. My heart always stops when the phone rings these days, but I figured it couldn’t be anything job-related at that hour. It was, however, one of the interviewers calling to say that I am one of three finalists for the job!

On Friday morning, I will do some testing in Word and Excel (because the other two finalists are not local, we will all be doing our testing by email instead of in person to make it fair—I will get an email with the test materials at an appointed time; and then the person sending them will call to make sure that I received them; and then I will have an hour to finish and return them by email; I feel like I'm getting instructions for dropping off a ransom), and then next week they plan to schedule final interviews.

Tomorrow I’d better take my one and only suit to the dry cleaners. I’m glad now that I got a plain suit instead of pinstriped, because I think I can get away with wearing the same black suit to both interviews (with a different shirt, of course).

I appreciate how quick they have been to make decisions so far. They told me yesterday that they know it’s hard to wait over the weekend to hear about a job, so they were planning to notify everyone by Friday whether they would be called back for a second interview. But I certainly didn’t expect to hear from anyone by today!

I would love to know one way or the other before I leave for Europe a week from Monday. And it would be so great to know that I was coming home to a job. I’m trying not to get my hopes up too far. But cross your fingers or say a prayer for me.