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izz
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Project/programme management, ideally deputy PPM, Bath/Somerset
weltweit
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izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
Too kind
Treacle Toes
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Threadddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd!!!
I have finally completed and sent off an application after over two months and 2 weeks of unemployment.
I have taken my sweet time over the personal statement and it is the fucking bomb.
This job is mine if I want it...I could do it standing on my head although it also opens up areas of challenge and learning for me.
Fingers crossed!
I have finally completed and sent off an application after over two months and 2 weeks of unemployment.
I have taken my sweet time over the personal statement and it is the fucking bomb.
This job is mine if I want it...I could do it standing on my head although it also opens up areas of challenge and learning for me.
Fingers crossed!
Treacle Toes
Time
Thanks weltweit but I didn't keep t to myself mate
I have posted on this thread about it just not in the last few weeks as I have been busy Thanks again for your kind wishes
Treacle Toes
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Threadddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd!!!
I have finally completed and sent off an application after over two months and 2 weeks of unemployment.
I have taken my sweet time over the personal statement and it is the fucking bomb.
This job is mine if I want it...I could do it standing on my head although it also opens up areas of challenge and learning for me.
Fingers crossed!
Got back from a festival yesterday. Email inviting me to interview for this job was waiting for me!
10 minute presentation and interview questions format.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
I've just started the job I was unsure about because of its location and my continuing collection of illnesses. They said they'd factored in not knowing if or when I'd be able to get into the office and actually there's a lengthy induction and training process I may as well be getting on with remotely. I think it will all work out in some way.
It's a bit odd though working entirely from home. I'm simultaneously trying to rehabilitate by increasing my activity levels so I'm going to partially base myself from a local co-working space which is near the park for walks and the sports centre for swims, and then try to use ones further and further afield. So I need to find a line of PAYG co-working spaces or peaceful cafes with wifi, between home and the city
It's a bit odd though working entirely from home. I'm simultaneously trying to rehabilitate by increasing my activity levels so I'm going to partially base myself from a local co-working space which is near the park for walks and the sports centre for swims, and then try to use ones further and further afield. So I need to find a line of PAYG co-working spaces or peaceful cafes with wifi, between home and the city
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
seen something possibly worth applying for.
location would be a slightly easier commute from here (and much easier if i do manage to move back to SE London)
slightly less money than current job to start with, but pay is a bit more structured and generally would be back to where I am now after a year or two, and offers at least the opportunity of future progress rather than just counting down the years to retirement.
main worry is getting a crappy reference (following crummy health earlier this year) and not getting it - and then being in an even more difficult position with current job
blargh
location would be a slightly easier commute from here (and much easier if i do manage to move back to SE London)
slightly less money than current job to start with, but pay is a bit more structured and generally would be back to where I am now after a year or two, and offers at least the opportunity of future progress rather than just counting down the years to retirement.
main worry is getting a crappy reference (following crummy health earlier this year) and not getting it - and then being in an even more difficult position with current job
blargh
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
over the phone or face to face?Got back from a festival yesterday. Email inviting me to interview for this job was waiting for me!
10 minute presentation and interview questions format.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
A group of people only slightly higher in the scheme of things than child murderers, the thing I hate about recruitment agencies is the number of times that you send your CV and never hear a peep after that.I am looking again for something new and am enduring the pain of recruitcunts
Treacle Toes
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Threadddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd!!!
I have finally completed and sent off an application after over two months and 2 weeks of unemployment.
I have taken my sweet time over the personal statement and it is the fucking bomb.
This job is mine if I want it...I could do it standing on my head although it also opens up areas of challenge and learning for me.
Fingers crossed!
Got back from a festival yesterday. Email inviting me to interview for this job was waiting for me!
10 minute presentation and interview questions format.
Update: This intervew was vile.
I really didn't like the people interviewing me...manager and CEO. I didn't like the place. I didn't like the way the receptionists were rolling their eyes about the volunteer whilst I was waiting to go in to the interview. It just wouldn't have been a good fit. I answered all the questions, did the presentation. Felt that my responses were good enough etc but the interaction with the interviewers was like treacle. At first I thought it may have been because it was really hot, late n the day etc but in hindsight I think it was more than that. They were uninterested in my answers, 3 times mishearing or not hearing what I said and questioning it. They didn't smile once, poker faced and dead behind the eyes. I reckon they had already interviewed someone they liked earlier in the day and were just going through the motions/honouring the appointments they had made.
I spoke to my other half as soon as I was out of there and said I didn't think I would get it nor would I take it if they did offer.
ION...my second application directly after the above was also successful and I was offered the job last week subject to funding. I've had a confirmation email from the plus a phone conversation but am now in an email discussion with the CEO to get a clear sense of whether or not I should keep on job hunting/how secure that funding is.
The interview was a dream. I arrived, was welcomed warmly and given the interview questions and a quiet room to sit in whilst I thought about my answers. The preamble above the questions set a very relaxed and adult tone which was continued during the interview with both the panel being warm/smiley/interested/open etc. A breath of fresh air.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Whilst I enjoy my current job, I don't feel it fully stretches me as much as it could and I am looking for new challenges?
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
yes, something like that...
i am having difficulty expressing it without the word 'cockwombles' though
Treacle Toes
Time
Trick is to talk about your hopes for the new place and not focus on the current one.
Treacle Toes
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yes, something like that...
i am having difficulty expressing it without the word 'cockwombles' though
'Am really excited about the possibilities for professional growth and learning in this role as well as hoping there are no cockwombles about to spoil things'
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
cockwombles would not be a good word to use no matter how accurate it may actually beyes, something like that...
i am having difficulty expressing it without the word 'cockwombles' though
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
i know...
i suppose not, although
'Am really excited about the possibilities for professional growth and learning in this role as well as hoping there are no cockwombles about to spoil things'
Riklet
procrastinación
So now Im unemployed, back living at home, just focusing on getting my driving license sorted and doing something new rather than PGCE and straight into more teaching. Been thinking about learning to code python and look into data analysis tools or do an IT course. Or copywriting online.
Really dont want to be stuck on computers all day though, I need something more physical. Got this sudden recent idea of doing an electronic/electrical engineering course perhaps, or getting trained up, but job hunting and so on... I dont even know where to start.
In the mean time can do EFL or even tutoring jobs - might not be a bad idea to get my GCSE maths and physics up to scratch!
Really dont want to be stuck on computers all day though, I need something more physical. Got this sudden recent idea of doing an electronic/electrical engineering course perhaps, or getting trained up, but job hunting and so on... I dont even know where to start.
In the mean time can do EFL or even tutoring jobs - might not be a bad idea to get my GCSE maths and physics up to scratch!
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Interviews are a 2 way street right?
I had my first interview today since being back in London and I feel privileged to have got an interview but, and it's a big but...the whole thing felt very rushed, very odd, perfunctory and impersonal. 15 minutes. When I've interviewed people, 15 minutes was basically a big fat no but I had to choose my interview slot online and they were all 15 minute slots.
I think I performed well and I have no idea whether they will make me an offer.
This is my first interview with the NHS so I have no idea whether this is normal or whether it is this team in particular. There was just no love in the room.
Hmmm
I had my first interview today since being back in London and I feel privileged to have got an interview but, and it's a big but...the whole thing felt very rushed, very odd, perfunctory and impersonal. 15 minutes. When I've interviewed people, 15 minutes was basically a big fat no but I had to choose my interview slot online and they were all 15 minute slots.
I think I performed well and I have no idea whether they will make me an offer.
This is my first interview with the NHS so I have no idea whether this is normal or whether it is this team in particular. There was just no love in the room.
Hmmm
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Application in, online test thing (pretty much primary school level maths) done.
Noticed today that closing date has been extended a month (was today, now mid September)
And seen something else, except it is in milton keynes
again.indeed.
i have had a few interviews where i have come to the conclusion at some point during the interview that i don't want to work for that organisation / those people / both
Treacle Toes
Time
That's exactly what happened in the vile interview I mentioned above.
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Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Yeah the more I think about it the more I think it is not the right job for me. At this stage I have no idea whether they will even offer it to me but I just have an all round bad feeling about it and I really don't have to jump at the first thing that comes up as I can continue temping and wait for the right job.
There was just so little care that they were either going through the motions to make up the numbers or they really just didn't care which makes me think they are not going to care about whoever is actually in the job. One of them gave me the proper head to toe look up and down with a slightly disdainful face which made me think hmmmm....who does that to a candidate?
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
I did the application for the job in milton keynes - they want me to go for what sounds like an assessment thing next week.
the other job (the one that's had closing date extended) of course appeals more and is london based.
do i want to go through an assessment thing then (hopefully) have to try and get another day off for an interview - which may or may not be the end of it?
do i want to go through it all and then have mum-tat go through the roof if i talk about moving a bit further away? (although if i had a job i could afford to live local to, i could get to her place a bit more often rather than being too bloody knackered come the weekend) or do i try and talk to her first (which is rarely constructive)
blargh
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
thing in milton keynes is initial assessment to be (if successful) followed by group exercise and interview (not clear whether that would be same day or 3 days out to do it all)
isn't a group exercise the kind of thing dreamed up by HR nitwits to select the loudest and most obnoxious people?
my urge to tell them to stuff it (or at least regret i can't get there on the day so regret i will have to withdraw) is growing...
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Usually yes, but I thought they were kind of thing that was inflicted on people unlucky enough to already work there, If its applying for the job it sounds like something off the Apprentice
isn't a group exercise the kind of thing dreamed up by HR nitwits to select the loudest and most obnoxious people?
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