A few hours from now, I’ll be having my job interview with the Institute for International Research (IIR) here in Dubai for the job of Technical Administrator. I applied for this job through the job portal of BAC Middle East just the other night and was contacted by Sarah, a recruitment consultant with BAC the next day. Just like the other interviews I’ve been through, I’m already starting to feel jittery about it.

I know its normal to be nervous, but for me my body reacts a bit differently. There are times where I suffer from a rapid acceleration in my heartbeat. Sometimes I experience uncontrollable shaking and excessive sweating of my hands. It maybe different with every person, but for me it always have been either of the two. I have no idea if they already had an earlier understanding about which of them would go first or vice versa, but I just noticed they occur rather alternately.

I am scheduled to be interviewed today at 10 am by Mr. Joe Dillieto, IIR’s Technical Manager. According to Sarah, if hired I’ll be working on the Cityscape website, “administering” the website as the job title suggests. I will be tasked to update the website content using a content management system (CMS). As I browsed through the Cityscape website, I learned that they currently use the Webdeck CMS developed by the Solid State Group. After seeing some screenshots of the CMS and watching the Flash demo, I am confident I would be able to use the software with ease.

The website is an online resource of real estate market intelligence on countries which the company consider as emerging markets, which are the Middle East, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. These so-called market intelligence info provided by the website is expected to help investors, developers, and real estate professionals to make sound business decisions. (Am I prepared or what?).

Just finished rapping up my preparations (such as reviewing answers to common interview questions like “Tell me something about yourself?” or “What is your greatest weakness?”) and just finishing writing this post and I’m ready to go! Wish myself all the best and luck! God be with me! Hope to get the job, inshalla!

Now, my hands are starting to shake and it’s already getting sweaty, it is its schedule to make me jittery today…

Update: Got another interview next Thursday, wish me well…