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Good luck sa. Gsv waiting to hear on Friday's interview. He's swinging between hope and despair of getting it. Main people seemed to like him but he fears he might be missing an important bit of experience. He thinks it'll be a close thing if 'no' and in that case may try asking if they can try him out anyway, as he reckons they need another person on this work and he could either show he can do it alone or else support someone else in it.
 
Well the interview went OK I thought, I talked freely and felt at ease with the panel - 4 people (!). It was a standard format 'tell me about yourself', covered that nicely, gave lots of examples of relevance of my experience to the role, concentrating on the informatics/database side of things - which is the main part of the job.

They took it in turns to ask me questions, there was also a scenario-type question which I thought I did OK.

It took about 45 minutes, it was running late and I saw the person before me - she was dressed in a black jacket and patterned leggins. My heart sank a bit at that - I think she may be an internal candidate? Maybe if she's dressed semi-casually and knew the panel? I dunno. I was sweltering in my suit! :)

Anyway, got home and did the school run fine, I had a missed call and a voicemail, checked it - it was a message from one of the interview panel to give them a call, gave their mobile number. :oops:

... just rang it and it went to voicemail.

FFS!!!!

*bites nails*
 
Brilliant... you've been on a real rollercoaster, sorearm, and you deserve a break.

gsv got an email late Monday night; another skype interview with California HQ. His mate who works there said he went through lots of interviews/conversations before they offered, so this is par for the course. Apparently one of the senior decision makers has been indicating it's 'when' not 'if' he's taken on, but he's not going to assume it's in the bag. It's looking good, though annoyingly the interview's not until early next week. I guess time will be confirmed by email arriving sometime in the middle of the night.
 
Cloo said:
Brilliant... you've been on a real rollercoaster, sorearm, and you deserve a break.

gsv got an email late Monday night; another skype interview with California HQ. His mate who works there said he went through lots of interviews/conversations before they offered, so this is par for the course. Apparently one of the senior decision makers has been indicating it's 'when' not 'if' he's taken on, but he's not going to assume it's in the bag. It's looking good, though annoyingly the interview's not until early next week. I guess time will be confirmed by email arriving sometime in the middle of the night.
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gah what a real string along this must feel like! keep everything crossed!
 
Yeah, gsv was doing his nut yesterday waiting to hear, but I think he's feeling more confident now... most of the interactions are pretty casual and conversational rather than interviews as such. They apparently are big on taking on people they feel will work in the team rather than competency based, and seeing as we know they already get on with one of his mates, because he works there, that's a good start.
 
sorearm said:
HOLY SHIT

I GOT THE JOB!!!

... just spoke to one of the people from the interview panel (as he was on the way to the train station), they just need to sort out paperwork, contact references etc...

*faints*
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ooo.

well done.

and just realised i've not updated with my job hunting adventures in puddyland

got a temporary job (fairly crap, and at an office that will definitely be closed by christmas) - started there about a month ago following an interview some time in spring. kinda weird - there's a few of us been brought in to keep the place going as existing staff jump ship, except not many have yet, so none of us has got enough work to do.

Finally got an offer letter / draft contract and stuff end of last week, and sounds like it's still subject to references and such (sure I've already given them the info twice...) :hmm: still, it's better than a kick up the tail, and as it's 3 days a week, gives me time for other job hunting.

another interview 2 weeks ago (reasonable but not great money, not really somewhere i want to relocate to, but would do) which i think went quite well - they said it could be a few weeks before a decision percolates through the HR bit.

another one last week which went well - except I got asked if I didn't think it was a step down from my last job in the business. in terms of responsibility and range of work, it might be, but in terms of money it isn't (and certainly wouldn't be after a couple of years). I get the feeling I'm going to get rejected as over 'qualified', although any jobs at a higher level you have to have a degree or more experience than i've got. BLARGH.

contemplating applying for something else that I think I can do, but not sure I can afford to live anywhere near...
 
Keep strong Puddy_Tat, at least you have something at the moment, keep on at it. It's taken me bloody ages to get back into employment, I was really starting to despair big time.

I know what you mean about the 'overqualified' stupidity. I felt I was falling in between the overqualified for some posts (which I was more than capable of doing, doing well and to a high standard) and 'not enough experience' for breaking into the area I want to - I will be able to do that as a side-ways shimmy from my new upcoming role hopefully.

I had the risk assessment form emailed to me - already filled in, all I had to do was put my address, DoB and that's it, also emailed my refeere's and sent them a copy of the job description, 2 out of 3 have already replied saying no problem will give positive reference, good luck, sounds like an interesting job etc ...

keep yer spirits up everyone
 
one of my references emailed me today saying he had been contacted for reference, looks like things are moving.
 
It went to yet another Skype interview on Monday for gsv... which also went well, but he also found out that there are other guys in the running, and who are earlier in the process than him, so God knows when he'll hear; everything has to bounce between California and London, so there's usually a day's wait to hear anything. He still has a strong feeling he'll get it, but he knows he can't count on that. Hopefully there'll be an email in the morning (prob another stage) or even better perhaps a phone call from London before the end of the week, but that's sounding kind of optimistic.
 
Cloo said:
It went to yet another Skype interview on Monday for gsv... which also went well, but he also found out that there are other guys in the running, and who are earlier in the process than him, so God knows when he'll hear; everything has to bounce between California and London, so there's usually a day's wait to hear anything. He still has a strong feeling he'll get it, but he knows he can't count on that. Hopefully there'll be an email in the morning (prob another stage) or even better perhaps a phone call from London before the end of the week, but that's sounding kind of optimistic.
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blimey, talk about spinning it all out! Hope things go OK and gsv gets it, sounds like a really drawn out process :(
 
Update on my job stuff.

All the bumpfh from HR came through - CRB application form, confirmation letter, pre-employment health questionnaire (luckily there aren't any questions relating to mental health/depression that apply to me. It's phrased around 'do you have condition that falls under DDA' etc. As I would say my current depression/MH is reactive due to outside stressful events I'm going to tick the "NO" box on this. I'm aware of current threads about ticking the 'yes' box to questions about mental health/depression etc - I think these just act as a screening out tool personally in this current environment).

So I've filled all those forms out, just need to get an appointment with HR to go through all the forms and pass them in and wait for the CRB check

... how long do CRB checks take these days? Hopefully it will be a few weeks, so that gets the kids summer school hols out of the way as we've not got any fall back and there is zero family support for either of us :rolleyes:

Encouraged from the contact person in my soon-to-be-new department, I emailed him to let him know all the forms came from HR, their response was "We want you here as soon as we can!" :)
 
A few weeks to a couple of months, sorearm in my experience. It's always a bit slow and certain times of the year are slower than others.

I'd go for the longer period of time because it's the summer hols and applications go up for new teachers starting jobs, people working on summer camps, starting uni etc etc.
 
Still no word from *that* job for gsv... is this a record? He has chased them up now and they say someone will get back (from California, so email likely to arrive in the night). Not likely to be a 'yes' or 'no', but it might be some kind of information. I'll be fucking annoyed if they've kept him waiting this long for a 'no', even if they only just started speaking to other candidates last week.

But in the meantime, he's had 3 interviews with other folks, already been asked for a second for one (which he'll do via Skype while we're in Slovakia next week) and another Skype interview lined up with a fourth lot, so things are looking optimistic.
 
holy crap Cloo that takes the biscuit!!!

purenarcotic - hope it doesn't take long for my CRB check.

I passed all my pre-employment check forms into HR couple of days ago, received an email that I've been given the clear by Occy Health and my CRB forms have been sent off. I've got the reference number so I can track the process online. I'm thinking a few weeks, which brings us up to the beginning of september which is ideal as the kids will be back to school after summer .... I still can't believe it's all happened in the last couple of weeks.

I fucking deserve a turn of luck after this shite year I can tell you!
 
Joining this thread as after deciding on Thursday I needed to start looking again for my own sanity, was then told by my manager on Friday that I'm basically on 4 months notice.

I have spent today updating the CV and uploading it to websites. I'm bored already!!
 
Just waiting on the CRB check now, does the last stage take the longest? (stage 4: records held by police)

... just a bit nervous incase anything relating to the false DV allegations my ex made a couple of years ago comes up as 'soft intelligence'

... oh and I think my ex has got wind of job and called the CSA as had a missed call from a number, checked it on 'who called me', came up as DWP/CSA, there was a voicemail to call someone with my NI number... god she can't wait can she
 
It takes ages for CRB's. It's the end of the holiday near the start of term. There is always a big influx of applications around this time of year.

And I don't think it should come up, but you can phone the DBS and they might be able to give you a better indication.
 
purenarcotic said:
It takes ages for CRB's. It's the end of the holiday near the start of term. There is always a big influx of applications around this time of year.

And I don't think it should come up, but you can phone the DBS and they might be able to give you a better indication.
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Cheers.

The other parts of the CRB check were really quick (I don't have any convictions, warning or cautions) so just a click of the computer mouse check really.

I was chatting with a relative who had a DV call out to their house and they said that nothing came up on their CRB check, but they were still stressing out.

The 'records held by local police' check was only started on friday so will give it a week or so before stressing out.
 
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