Sooooo: One of the companies I applied to actually got back to me immediately. They called me the day after I sent them my résumé. Cool, right? I go back to actually read exactly what that job entailed. Everything looks good except for one tiny detail: Must be fluent in Spanish. I don’t know how I missed it - the qualifications list is the only thing I read before applying to a job.
No big deal, I thought. My Spanish level is listed as intermediate on my résumé, so they must be a little loose on the “fluent” thing. In the phone interview, I would just explain that I hadn’t spoken Spanish in several years, so I would be rusty. If they didn’t think that was good enough, fine. No harm, no foul.
Nope. They asked me to do a part of the interview all in Spanish. I handled some of the questions fine, but then he ramped up to full Hispanic speed I was toast, hombre.
So much for that job. Here’s hoping the other interview I have today is less of a train wreck.
