Could you tell us about a time…

It’s been a long and agonising wait but it seems my constant banging on the door is finally bearing results; this week I received not one, but TWO interview invites!

It honestly feels like such a vindication of the hours and hours spent writing out applications (12, to date) — no two of which were the same, by the way — and it is finally starting to seem worth it.

So now it’s time to research the roles fully, find the optimum Zoom background in my house, and practice talking about how wonderful I am. The latter has been helped hugely by friends and ex-colleagues who responded to my homework questions about who I am and what my strengths are. Through maternity leave, redundancy, lockdown, and furlough, it’s so easy to forget who you are. So this week I’ll be channelling my inner Rafiki/Mufasa, and: