A Slight Catch

Today, I got another job interview.  After I was done doing my celebratory "I got an interview" dance through the house and called my mom saying "I got an interview!" so high that it was probably completely unintelligible to someone who didn't know me quite so well, I actually read the email. 

Check this out.

"Katie- I have hired a new attorney starting June 1st in our Va. Beach office. While I did not plan on hiring another attorney this year, I am willing to meet with you ( yes, an interview) with the resident attorney in our Newport News office. Give me dates when you will be on the peninsula and I will set a time for the three of us to meet. Also, please send me a writing sample plus a half page on "why, if I don't hire you, it will be the biggest hiring mistake I will ever make." This is like American Idol for lawyers- you get one bite of the apple and one meeting to convince me in the middle of a recession why I have to hire you. ( And don't give me lawyer speak--I assume you are honest, smart, dependable and will work until your hands bleed and your brain goes mushy) I look forward to our meeting.--Charlie H."

Writing sample: check

Interview: no sweat.

One half page on why, if I'm not hired, it will be the biggest mistake of some guy who I don't know at all's life: Ummm, what?

I have been thinking and thinking and I am still no closer to an answer.  I'm hoping that, if I sleep on it, I will come to a brilliant beyond brilliant quote or sentence or something that will wow him into making me an offer immediately--recession or no.

If this is American Idol for lawyers, I really hope I get to be the Carrie Underwood or, at the very least, the Kelly Clarkson, of the contestants.  I mean, there were other American Idol winners, but who even remembers them?  Jordin Sparks?  Who?  And that Reuben guy.  Not that I watch American Idol. 

I feel like this is quite the tall order.  And I am going to obsess over it until I feel like I have the best answer I could possibly have.  On the upside, this is yet another interview.  My resume MUST say something that is appealing to these people and that, I have to say, is incredibly encouraging.

Just have to find the right words to adequately express how I am indispensable to this firm. 

Two words: Cheap labor.

Okay, all humor aside, I do have to fill half a page full of witty and convincing details about my personality and experience that makes me perfect fit with this firm.  Eeeks.

You know what, though?  I really like the guy, just from his email.  Pretty kick ass thing to do.  If I was hiring, I would do that, too.