Meeting Title: First Round Screening Interview Date: 2025-08-07 Meeting participants: Lester Gomez, Amber Lin
WEBVTT
1 00:09:49.030 ⇒ 00:09:50.100 Amber Lin: Hi! Lester.
2 00:09:54.330 ⇒ 00:09:56.520 Lester Gomez: Hello, Amber. Good morning.
3 00:09:57.150 ⇒ 00:09:58.559 Amber Lin: Morning for you. What time are you?
4 00:09:59.810 ⇒ 00:10:00.880 Amber Lin: That’s it for you.
5 00:10:00.880 ⇒ 00:10:02.479 Lester Gomez: 7 Am.
6 00:10:03.310 ⇒ 00:10:06.329 Amber Lin: Oh, wow! Did you get up early, or did you stay up.
7 00:10:06.330 ⇒ 00:10:08.910 Lester Gomez: Yeah, around 5.
8 00:10:09.770 ⇒ 00:10:11.849 Amber Lin: Wow! That’s so impressive.
9 00:10:13.590 ⇒ 00:10:32.280 Amber Lin: well, I saw your. I saw your Cv, and I saw the loom video that you sent us. So this is a quick, 1st round screening interview. Just want to ask you a few questions, to get a sense of who you are, and then at the end feel free to ask me any questions.
10 00:10:32.280 ⇒ 00:10:32.990 Lester Gomez: All right.
11 00:10:34.100 ⇒ 00:10:38.210 Amber Lin: Okay, so let me pull up.
12 00:10:38.880 ⇒ 00:10:43.060 Amber Lin: Oh, alright.
13 00:10:43.210 ⇒ 00:10:48.979 Amber Lin: So 1st question I have is, What are your career goals?
14 00:10:50.075 ⇒ 00:10:52.144 Lester Gomez: For my career goals. I want to
15 00:10:53.281 ⇒ 00:11:19.350 Lester Gomez: enhance my Pm. Careers or also pursue me. The Project manager careers. So I want to learn more on the techniques approaches and also to learn different tools on how to enhance my project management skills. And and also I want to to meet new people
16 00:11:20.073 ⇒ 00:11:27.810 Lester Gomez: to learn from their their knowledge, and also to know their new ideas on how.
17 00:11:27.810 ⇒ 00:11:28.230 Amber Lin: The.
18 00:11:28.678 ⇒ 00:11:34.501 Lester Gomez: To to know to know on how the way they’re thinking, because
19 00:11:35.060 ⇒ 00:11:38.091 Lester Gomez: as my 12, as my 12 years experience
20 00:11:39.068 ⇒ 00:11:48.689 Lester Gomez: I ex. I met the different people on, and also met a different way of thinking on how to solve the problem. So
21 00:11:49.290 ⇒ 00:11:53.069 Lester Gomez: for me, it’s a big factor to met
22 00:11:55.010 ⇒ 00:11:59.720 Lester Gomez: New people to have new perspective on a, on a.
23 00:11:59.920 ⇒ 00:12:05.099 Lester Gomez: on on a different situations like that.
24 00:12:07.430 ⇒ 00:12:31.730 Amber Lin: I see. I know you’ve been be. You’ve been a project manager for a long time. When you want. When you say you want to advance your project management career. Do you mean to manage more projects to manage the pro pmo? Do you mean to manage more project managers? Or what direction do you mean?
25 00:12:31.970 ⇒ 00:12:34.600 Amber Lin: And when you say you want to grow in project management.
26 00:12:36.145 ⇒ 00:12:42.559 Lester Gomez: I mean, you know, project manager career
27 00:12:44.880 ⇒ 00:12:49.490 Lester Gomez: move forward. They’re always a new set of tools, right?
28 00:12:49.610 ⇒ 00:12:54.620 Lester Gomez: So for me. Private project manager careers always
29 00:12:55.090 ⇒ 00:13:11.880 Lester Gomez: moving forward to to set a new methods. And they created new tools on how to be effect. Much more effective so from samples of
30 00:13:13.230 ⇒ 00:13:23.579 Lester Gomez: in a long time we only use waterfall methodologies. Then there’s some agile, then some hybrid, so it always grow so
31 00:13:23.700 ⇒ 00:13:36.321 Lester Gomez: for me, it’s always I always want to learn. So our it’s also, also, a system or an application. Only not
32 00:13:37.220 ⇒ 00:13:56.939 Lester Gomez: not just stagnant on the methodologies or approach. So some. Some projects were built for these methodologies or these tools. Some projects were built for this, not for all. So I always want to know, on a different on different perspective, and on different situations, on how to be more effective.
33 00:13:58.360 ⇒ 00:14:14.580 Amber Lin: Gotcha I think my next question is, 2 sides. So I want to know what you’re really good at professionally, and what you are not good at, and not interested in doing professionally.
34 00:14:15.983 ⇒ 00:14:20.650 Lester Gomez: Can you elaborate? What about the professionalism, ma’am?
35 00:14:21.668 ⇒ 00:14:25.700 Amber Lin: So I think my question is, what do you think you are good at?
36 00:14:27.375 ⇒ 00:14:35.159 Lester Gomez: Okay, okay. In my over a decade work experience.
37 00:14:35.290 ⇒ 00:14:58.989 Lester Gomez: Maybe I’m I believe my strength is lies in communication, not just in speaking language, ma’am, but on how I connect with people including just the staff, the developers, Qa teams and BA. etc, and also with the stakeholders. I’ve worked.
38 00:14:58.990 ⇒ 00:14:59.780 Amber Lin: Got it.
39 00:14:59.780 ⇒ 00:15:00.319 Lester Gomez: Yeah, I.
40 00:15:00.320 ⇒ 00:15:07.040 Amber Lin: So the 1st one you’re very strong with communications is just noting that down.
41 00:15:08.280 ⇒ 00:15:13.509 Amber Lin: What would you say you’re not good at, or would you say? Not interested in doing professionally.
42 00:15:14.670 ⇒ 00:15:18.300 Lester Gomez: I would say, not not interested. But
43 00:15:20.420 ⇒ 00:15:27.980 Lester Gomez: I’m not really. I’m oh, how can I tell it? I’m not good at it from
44 00:15:28.090 ⇒ 00:15:31.559 Lester Gomez: today, but I still working on it.
45 00:15:32.290 ⇒ 00:15:33.530 Lester Gomez: I think
46 00:15:33.760 ⇒ 00:15:49.000 Lester Gomez: I’m also. I have weakness in my communication. So communication, skill also. It’s my strength and also my weakness. I know. For myself now. I
47 00:15:49.670 ⇒ 00:15:56.410 Lester Gomez: not that fluently speaking in English so, and some some
48 00:15:57.032 ⇒ 00:16:02.560 Lester Gomez: vocabulary is not that broad, so I’m still working on it.
49 00:16:03.371 ⇒ 00:16:07.860 Lester Gomez: But yeah, I think it’s me.
50 00:16:07.860 ⇒ 00:16:29.819 Amber Lin: Lester. I really appreciate you, you taking the time to talk to us and to speak to us. However, I do think, because all of our clients are us based. I would need someone that’s fairly fluent in English. I just want to let you know early, so that you don’t have to wait and ponder on our decision.
51 00:16:30.080 ⇒ 00:16:31.660 Lester Gomez: No, I’m I’m good.
52 00:16:32.020 ⇒ 00:16:38.609 Lester Gomez: I’m I really appreciate on what you say. But yeah, yeah, I will.
53 00:16:39.159 ⇒ 00:16:55.090 Lester Gomez: I will not take this opportunity for granted. So I will try to. If if I will pass, I will pass. If not, it’s okay. But see, I in my experience, I still can be competitive.
54 00:16:55.480 ⇒ 00:17:06.929 Lester Gomez: even if there’s some weaknesses, and I know I’m working on it to make sure that it will not be a blocker on my job or in my career.
55 00:17:07.210 ⇒ 00:17:18.890 Amber Lin: Yeah, totally. I I believe in the potential of your career. I just don’t think you’re a match for this current position. We’ll keep in mind for any future opportunity.
56 00:17:19.430 ⇒ 00:17:20.130 Lester Gomez: Okay.
57 00:17:20.760 ⇒ 00:17:23.219 Amber Lin: Yeah, I appreciate your time. Have a good one.
58 00:17:23.920 ⇒ 00:17:24.540 Lester Gomez: Okay.
59 00:17:25.290 ⇒ 00:17:26.430 Amber Lin: Alright, bye.
60 00:17:27.660 ⇒ 00:17:28.359 Lester Gomez: Nay.