Messy phone interview, want the job, what to do?

[sondra_finchley]

Yesterday I had a half hour phone interview for a position Im really interested in. Unfortunately the interviewer was 1) the only person currently in the office (just opened a US sales office for this firm, but they are hiring for this position and bringing someone in from the home office overseas), 2) just came from a nonprofit advocacy area (kinda like myself) 3) this is his first hire and 4) seemed kinda nervous and disorganized on the phone. Maybe I got in a rut answering the same questions over and over again with HR types in a logical orderly way and was thrown by this. Honestly, it would have been easier to sit down with him- he threw me some real curve balls in there that were project questions that I would have to sit down and actually see what was required in order to determine if what he wanted was actually doable with what I know and software esp. with GIS ( though its not a GIS centric position).

My question- do I email the recruiter that this is all going through and explain some of my answers more clearly for him to pass on to his client? Or do I just leave it and hope that my interest and qualifications shone through enough in the interview ( i did get some points in, i do have some unusual skills, and i asked some educated questions) and the resume to let things alone and see how they play out?

ETA- this isnt a sales office selling anything consumer related- more like longterm manufacturing contracts globally for a highly technical piece of equipment hence the small office

[Syracuse]

I use GIS. Arcmap which we call ArcCrash here, you can imagine why.

[sondra_finchley]

lol! God I remember learning and it always managed to crash right in the middle of the last thing you had to do to finish your semester project. Not the greatest software, but ppl seem to think you can do all sorts of shnazzy things with it. (which you can, if you like rocks)

[yankeeyosh]

ArcGIS is an awesome tool. But I have had my fair share of crashes.

[AshleyJordan]

My question- do I email the recruiter that this is all going through and explain some of my answers more clearly for him to pass on to his client? Or do I just leave it and hope that my interest and qualifications shone through enough in the interview ( i did get some points in, i do have some unusual skills, and i asked some educated questions) and the resume to let things alone and see how they play out?

ETA- this isnt a sales office selling anything consumer related- more like longterm manufacturing contracts globally for a highly technical piece of equipment hence the small office

I say call the recruiter. . . it's his job to liaise between you and the firm, and maybe you can get some valuable feedback.