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Sober Preacher's Kid
Presbymethegationalist
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Originally posted by Beenster:
Having recently been made redundant, I'm joining the masses of those job hunting. I'm not too dispirited in these early days and also the opportunity to enjoy the park in the sun (but interviews would be preferable, I'm trying to be optimistic).
But, is it me, has the interview process gone loopy. Having sat a written test (one in five pass), and then two interviews, I had to do Myers-Briggs and two psychometric tests.
I'm a PA. I'm not working at MI5.
And in psychometric tests - is it best to lie? eg. "Are you moody". Is there a right answer?
It's loopy. Asking for a job is like trying to talk to a brick wall. The eagerness of an employer to fill a job is inversely proportional to the time spent on filling it, in my experience.
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Og: Thread Killer
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Ooh, a job has opened in another department here and I may be able to escape my boss.
Fly and be Free......Fly and be Free!!!!
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Og: Thread Killer
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To the discussion of the personality tests
Business do those for a number of reasons
- HR wants to spend budget
- HR wants to give managers something to use if they need to fire people
- They want to balance the team personalities
- Somebody somewhere thought it was a good idea so now they just do it as a matter of course
- Tests make it sound like they take these things seriously
Personally I think business who do this all the time are wasting money. Personality testing often provides data that gets in the way of other far more important objective and subjective criteria. A person may do the job really well and be a good fit to the organization but....if they are not a compatible type to the boss, well, that's a flag, at least in the thinking of some lazy managers. And that flag sits there and gives them an excuse to belittle or, in rare cases, over train the new hire.
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The Kat in the Hat
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Originally posted by The Kat in the Hat:
The job I'm currently doing on a temporary contract is now going to become a permanent one, so it has been advertised. I would love to carry on, but have been rejected under similar circumstances before and am not sure I could cope again.
![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
Well, from being encourage to apply by the head before it was advertised, I'm now out of work. The school have decided I'm too much of a liability as several parents have taken against me (they've never met me - just gone on what their children have said). Nothing concrete, nothing I can appeal against, just go. Not sure whether to be sad or glad.
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Fingers crossed for all.
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We come from love, we return to love, and all around is love.
Lord, ease our burdens, give us peace and enable us to do your work. Tree Bee
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Beenster
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I'm glad I'm not the only cynic when it comes to these personality test things. I had my feedback session and it was a waste of breath, I was told over and over again I'm a nice person and things like that and then the lady cut to the chase and explained that I wasn't up for the role as I was too eager to please. As a PA, I think that's a noble trait.
It's a damn waste of time - or was for my application. If they had liked me sufficiently, they would have overlooked that shortcoming. As it was, it felt like an exercise in excuses. Furthermore, it indicates a failure in the interview process, this is something that should have been ironed out by a skilled interviewer and situational scenarios should have been presented to me so that I would have been able to demonstrate whether it was a problem or not in this context.
I do have an issue with it. I'm not entitled to the report, whilst I have had the loathesome feedback session, I think I would have liked the opportunity to have a copy of the report. Data protection and all that?
Just want to pay my admiration to those who work in the job centre. They've been lovely to me.
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Lamb Chopped
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Originally posted by Og: Thread Killer:
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Ooh, a job has opened in another department here and I may be able to escape my boss.
Fly and be Free......Fly and be Free!!!!
![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif) Wasn't that what Mork said to the egg just before he tossed it into the air to go splat?
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Gladly The Cross-eyed Bear
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I am being laid off (made redundant) in a week. I have known about it for a couple of weeks, and have started sending out my resume to various places that could use my skills. The discouraging thing is that no one is even acknowledging that they have received my resume! Queen Mousie and I are in the process of tightening our belts to get through a tough time together.
Gladly
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balaam
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I've been out of work for four weeks now. I have sent out for information about a position in Christians Against Poverty.
I've received an application pack back. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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The Great Restructuring is underway at work and the two positions immediately below Head IT have been announced, so the race will begin very shortly for posts below them, a couple of which I'll be going for.
:hopeful:
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Fingers crossed for all.
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We come from love, we return to love, and all around is love.
Lord, ease our burdens, give us peace and enable us to do your work. Tree Bee
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rufiki
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I never did get around to updating that CV. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) But...
an internal vacancy has come up that I think would suit me rather well. I don't have all the "essential" criteria, but there's no harm in having a chat with the relevant manager, right?
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Sandemaniac
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Ho hum, I'm going to have fun when I get back from holiday.
I had a phone call last week from someone last week asking if I could come in for an interview that day. I'm on holiday, and furthermore I've told you this at least twice. On getting to internet, I discover that I'm being invited for a "second interview" with "a mix of technical and competence based questions" - err, I've had two already, and they both asked me those - what more can I tell you?
Meanwhile I've heard nowt from the job I really fancied, and can't get hold of the relevant person (so keeping that on hold until next week) and I have an invitation for an interview next Thursday... If it wasn't for the last 16 months, I'd think I was in with a chance...
Ho hum, bck to holiday!
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If anyone is needing something to do with their time for a few months while waiting for something more permanent to come up, I've come across a gem of a position that I'd love to do myself if I was actively looking at the moment. I stayed here in the summer and it's a great place for people who love books - a residential library.
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Sandemaniac
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OK... This is getting silly. I now have invitations to two interviews at the same time on the same day thirty miles apart! I missed out on the one I was really interested in (top 3 out of 50+ applicants, but no prize for coming second...), and I still have to sort out the "second" interview above.
Oh, and I have to fit some work in at some point next week...
Apart from that, it's been great having a holiday!
AG
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Sandemaniac
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Well, I've just had an email telling me that management of the company who had interviewed me twice, and wanted to interview me again, have suddenly decided that they don't want to go ahead with the post. Their recruiter is gutted (and I don't blame him - he's got the shitty end of the stick, having done all the hard work, and then having to tell everyone - meanwhile feeling like a total arse, when it's not his fault), and I can't say as I'm hugely happy. I have been asked (nicely) whether I can keep primal scream therapy out of the building!
In the absence of a TICTH thread, I hope the management of X X have their arseholes sealed up, and die very, very slowly from filling right up the ears with their own shit. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Beenster
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I'm so sorry Sandemaniac. It's a lot of energy that is put into an interview, more so two and then to be dicked around is hard to deal with.
I got several offers of temp work, none of which I could take up as I was busy dealing with a dying father and then his subsequent funeral. It's amazing how many people thought it was marvellous I was out of work so I could deal with everything - personally, I find being able to afford to eat much more of a priority. However, since dealing with that, there has been no temp work forthcoming. I've been such a prostitute with my CV - sending it to all and sundry without shame.
I'm terrified of looking desperate when the interviews emerge. You know that really hunted look and the all-too-eager wide eyes, nodding wildly.
And breathe.
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Curiosity killed ...
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I've just started the second dose of antibiotics for the same chest infection. People saying "isn't it good that I can rest properly" are also not helpful, because I too need money to eat and pay the rent.
Sort of being made redundant without actually having any redundancy package or papers means that as far as anyone else is concerned I made myself unemployed voluntarily. The fact that there was no money to pay me is pretty immaterial. And the alternatives aren't great either.
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Beenster
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
I've just started the second dose of antibiotics for the same chest infection. People saying "isn't it good that I can rest properly" are also not helpful, because I too need money to eat and pay the rent.
Oh, why do people feel the need to big-up unemployment. You feel like a second class citizen at the best of it without being silenced by stupid remarks.
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Hi all,
I was made one of a number of people made redundant after a serious meltdown at the company I worked for - nothing that was my fault, there was a huge management disagreement then a huge legal mess. The last at that company that I took some time out afterwards to recover and get my head together.
I was fortunate in that I received a decent redundancy payment, but as others have said the job market is really tough at the moment. Even though I've got some freelance work, I need something more permanent and it feels like you need to go through lots of gatekeepers (like the various tests others have gone through).
I've had first and second interviews, with one informal job offer so far. I recently had an interview on Tuesday for a really interesting start-up and I'd love the role if I were to get it. It'd only be three days a week for the first three months but it would be a good start.
One of the biggest things I've recently realised I struggle with is that I get my identity from work (like many other men, I guess): from the job title I have, the network of people I know and the clients I've worked on behalf of. Spiritually, that's something I'm having to let go off, but I do struggle when people at church ask how my job hunt is going and I say I'm still searching - I feel quite ashamed and embarrassed.
Thanks for reading, apologies for the longish post, any prayers are appreciated, God bless you.
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Welease Woderwick
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It's like when people talk about "the dignity of poverty" - there ain't any! Some poor people maintain their dignity despite their poverty, sure as hell not because of it!
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Sandemaniac
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Oh yes, Beenster and CK! Thankfully I've avoided unemployment, but other people's expectations and "reassurances" are so bloody maddening. I've not told my mother about my job situation thus time round - thankfully for the last year and a half she's had enough on her plate to flap about that she hasn't had a mo to think about me.
Meanwhile, I can strongly advise that two interviews in one day are a Bad Thing. You can't prepare properly for either, and the stress involved is just silly. Add to that being utterly unable to park (saved by a moment of genius from someone regarding staff passes) at the second one... Frankly, I think it's overqualification for one and under for the other, but what the hell else do you do?
AG
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Sandemaniac
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To be honest, CK, I've tried to give up hoping. I try to blank each one from my mind as soon as it's over. I've not counted, but I reckon I've had over 30 of the things, and I can't handle the false hope.
AG
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The Kat in the Hat
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I've decided that supply teaching is no longer the job for me. Too many tales of no support from management and a disillusionment generally with the system. I'm in the process of filling a job application:
Question 1: Why are you applying for this job?
I need the work!
Question 3: How do you think you would do this job?
As well as I possibly can!
I think they are looking for slightly longer answers though.
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Lamb Chopped
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Yes, same problem here. Interviewer wants to know if I have "a passion for X." Didn't dare to answer that I have a passion for keeping my family fed. Besides, what does passion have to do with it anyway? You can be passionate and a total screw-up nonetheless. I'm trying for "competent, bloody genius even, and my feelings are no one's business."
Did I say this was an entry level job? Otherwise done by people half my age and education. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Og: Thread Killer
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When they ask if you have a passion for x , it means they have either:
a) a lot of turnover
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b) a corporate set of values they feel the need for you to hear
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c) An HR department with budget to spend and a need to prove its worth
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d) all of the above
The usual answer is d.
As for the whole "at least you have time" thing, I found that myself and the unemployed people I was dealing with in my past life tended to flip flop between being concerned about money and wanting to define ourselves as a person separate from what we do in our job.
I don't miss my latest bit of retirement as I am a much happier man, husband and father and love my job.
But after 10 years of going for a goal I wanted in many ways since I was a teenager, and getting it, and then getting kicked out of it for reasons I did not understand, I also took the time to discover who the heck I really was and what I wanted to do.
Thankfully, I'm doing that now. And I know darn well that most people can't do that.
Everybody approaches unemployment from a different perspective, and the stories people have will be what they use to try to comfort the unemployed. Doesn't mean its helpful but its what we all do.
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Beenster
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Originally posted by The Kat in the Hat:
I've decided that supply teaching is no longer the job for me. Too many tales of no support from management and a disillusionment generally with the system. I'm in the process of filling a job application:
Question 1: Why are you applying for this job?
I need the work!
Question 3: How do you think you would do this job?
As well as I possibly can!
I think they are looking for slightly longer answers though.
Oh exactly - is "I just want to do a good job" sufficient as a goal / ambition / where I see myself in 10 years time etc?
Anyway I have a week's work next week. Thank God for money coming in and no days full of Jeremy Kyle.
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I was made redundant after 27 years with the same company last year. The place was going to pot, and is now an even bigger mess, so I'm glad to be out. Very generous benefits mean I can keep paying myself my old salary well into next year.
I've been writing fiction full time-ish, and self published some books with more in the pipeline, but the likelihood of this ever generating any income is slight. Or less.
Now looking for "real work", although the thought of suiting up and going into the city again does not excite. Have had a pre interview chat with one person, and have a few feelers out. Things seem to be picking up here a little in my area as far as opportunities go, so timing might be right.
![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) for those a-hunting.
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Sandemaniac
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A word of warning for anyone crazed enough to be applying for science jobs.
I've just gone through what seemed to be a stupidly long-winded and complex procedure to register on the Research Councils job site - to discover when I got to the end that I'd just submitted an application! To rub it in, I cannot go back to edit it but have to phone HR on Monday.
I have absolutely no idea how one would go about putting together an online application site together. I wonder whether I can wangle a job with their web designers? Or are they employing blindfolded chimps?
Oh for a TICTH thread...
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Well, that was possibly the speediest decision from an interview I've ever had. Interview before lunch on Friday; decision phonecall to me just after lunch; feedback via email before I left for the weekend.
Internal interview, not sure if I'm sorry or not at not getting it, but the feedback was useful.
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The Kat in the Hat
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Application finally completed - hope I've said what they want to hear and managed to sell myself ok.
Handing it in today - It would be ideal!
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neandergirl
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Fingers crossed!
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We come from love, we return to love, and all around is love.
Lord, ease our burdens, give us peace and enable us to do your work. Tree Bee
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rufiki
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Had a chat with a manager today about a new team he's forming at my current place. The plans sound pretty exciting. The manager seems to want me, and my current manager is supportive of the move.
Wow, is this actually happening?!
ETA: sorry LC - hang in there!
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Gladly The Cross-eyed Bear
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After sending out my resume to many places, and filling out applications for places that didn't have jobs, I finally got a job through my networking! (Finally, he says. It is only three weeks since my last job ended!) A friend found a place that was looking for me, recommended me, and within two days I was in place.
Now I just have to keep my belt tight, for the pay is less than before; and there are glitches with my unemployment benefits. . .
On the plus side, the atmosphere in the new place is comfortable, and the commute is significantly shorter.
Thanks to God for answered prayer, and thanks to all who were praying for me.
Gladly
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Congratulations, Gladly! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Don't underestimate the value of a shorter commuting distance - it might go some way to making up for your cut in salary.
When we lived in Northern Ireland, our first house was 13 miles from Belfast, where we worked. Seven years later we moved into the city, cutting our commuting distance by about 10 miles. Although the new mortgage was a good bit more than the old one, the money we saved on petrol almost cancelled it out.
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Lamb Chopped
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Thanks, rufiki. I have since heard that a certain individual I might have had to deal with, er, may need to be had up on sexual harassment charges. So I may have had a blessed escape.
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Sandemaniac
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Well, I didn't get either of the jobs that stressed me out all holiday (bastards). I was indeed wildly overqualified for the first - and the person who advertised it has been given an earful for hinting more than was actually going to be involved (the only reason I applied!). As for the second, well, mismatched reasoning on the feedback that doesn't match the job ad's wording, and I kept talking over the boss because every time I thought he'd stopped he started again. After all that, they didn't actually offer it to anyone.
So... next question. How the hell do you actually get contacts out of people? If the secret of networking is to get people to suggest other people that would be useful to talk to, how come it's like getting blood out of a stone?
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Lamb Chopped
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Just admitted to my mother that, given my age and job history (making do with jobs just a step above burger flipping) I am never ever going to be offered a better job, PhD be damned. I am doing a job normally offered to starving students with no real skills.To which she brightly replied, "But you do it so well!" And then proceeded to tell me how glad she was I hadn't moved back to Calif. Where my family is, "As I knew you'd never have the income to survive." Gee, thanks, Mom. I feel so valued.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Mothers can be wonderful ... or they can be like that. (((LC))) We must be related!
Mrs S, awaiting the frontal-lobe deterioration herself
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Sandemaniac
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Oh gods, yes. Last time I was job hunting mine had ream upon ream of suggestions of things I could do (ignoring things like the need to eat, or the need to have some ability), to the point where I could cheerfully have wrung her neck. I have told her the absolute minimum this time (hell, I'm doing the same fucking job as her now - as LC says, one step up from burger flipping) because I just couldn't handle my expectations, never mind hers.
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rufiki
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Filling in my first job application form in over four years. I had forgotten how long this takes.
In possibly related news, my house is looking rather clean and this wine tastes good.
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Sioni Sais
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I've been doing one since Wednesday, for an internal vacancy. These 'competence based' applications demand a lot of trumpet blowing and I'm a rotten salesman, so it's an exercise in creative writing that can be linked to episodes in real life; a bit like a first novel I suppose.
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Ethne Alba
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Paid employment is long overdue. Project work that is not paid might be great for the ego but does nothing for the bank manager.
Interview next week.
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Sandemaniac
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Well, the season is upon me again for bloody jobhunting. Desperately trying to plan activities to keep me sane over winter.
In other news, I appreciate someone emailing about a job being advertised in his department, but there ain't a lot of point when you don't tell me until an hour after the deadline - when it's vanished off the system so I can't even see if it's one I'd discounted already.
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Sandemaniac
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Well, all I can say is that it's a good job I got a good laugh before I boarded after my last post (I'd share, but it's a pair of in-jokes on another forum so pretty meaningless unless you are "in").
I've recently got in touch with someone at an agency I've been registered with for a while, who has been making a lot of noise about actually trying to get me something. Not that I believe him, because I've got no belief in agencies at all - last job I got through one was in 1999, and the company it was with were so useless I handed in my notice at the door on the first morning - but I have no option but to try at the moment.
Phoned after work today and asked whether he'd heard anything to be told that actually he hadn't followed anything up as he'd handed in his notice!
Christ on a fucking bicycle...
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Sandemaniac - agencies are - in my experience - filled with liars and fickle smoothers and talkers and they live in cliche heaven. The trouble is, we need them and they need us. I prostitute myself regularly with the agencies. I can't bear the way I sell myself so very very short.
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