Forgot how bad job searching was :(

A good day! Got a call saying successful at second interview. Getting paperwork this afternoon to look through. A little worried they'll aim at around 15k for what will be expected to be a plus 45 hour week. But a job is a job, might try to talk them up as it's a contract job.
 
Got an email inviting me to an interview next friday. The job sounds pretty interesting and its the first interview I have had since job searching again so should be good practice if nothing anything else.

But it does sound good. :)

EDIT: Also headed down to the Job Centre this morning to sort out getting JSA...I figured that seeing as I have been working the past year paying tax and the like I might as well get JSA to help pay for petrol/car/phone/bit of rent. Might be a bit frowned upon on here but it should help me out a bit until I find something. :o
 
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I'v estarted looking properly again, place I work is shutting down as of March 2012 but offering VR.

So it's job hunting time :)

Oh and I have an engineering degree, have engineer in my job title, but no way is it an engineer role :)
 
Was offered and have accepted a new job today, for Everything Everywhere (on the Orange side).
Taking a hefty paycut, but its much closer to home and a great opportunity.
Most important things is work life balance will have some balance, rather than being fully in favour of work!
 
Morba said:
Was offered and have accepted a new job today, for Everything Everywhere (on the Orange side).
Taking a hefty paycut, but its much closer to home and a great opportunity.
Most important things is work life balance will have some balance, rather than being fully in favour of work!
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Ah I know the feeling, I've taken an 8k pay cut lately all together! But i'm now working closer to home, and the job oppurtunity is a decent one, so we'll see how it goes :)

Congrats though!
 
Well I've been 8 months in the contract, they're looking to extend again (I've seen the request) however I've learnt all I can and so it's time to start with the 'big plan'.. so I'll be updating my CV this weekend.

I'll then be spending my evenings putting out 2-3 applications over the next 2-3 months.. time to start pushing for a better job!
 
sh4rk said:
Got a KPMG Assessment Centre on Tuesday, hopefully it will go well :)
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Hey, good luck, the jobs is a good'un if you can get a grad role. I'm guessing the job is for Tax over at their Theale office? They have been having problems getting people and are recruiting really late this year.
 
Delvis said:
Ah I know the feeling, I've taken an 8k pay cut lately all together! But i'm now working closer to home, and the job oppurtunity is a decent one, so we'll see how it goes :)

Congrats though!
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cheers fella :)
I'm hoping that it will be more than worth it, I have high hopes as there are a lot of positive people there (some of them post here, so thanks to myshra)

smokedog said:
In Hatfield?
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Thankfully no. No doubt I'll be up there at some point. Spent plenty of time in those offices before though as used to work for t-mob
 
Telescopi said:
Software Engineer I guess, but tbh I always thought that was a bit cheeky to real engineers.
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I disagree, because it's qualified with the world "Software" :)
Software development actually shares more traits with traditional engineering than many realise in terms of how schools of thought have come about, strategy formation, adoption of qualify frameworks, methodologies (lean etc). Different discipline of course but I think the idea is that software engineers are using their training and expertise to build/maintain something in the same way that a 'normal' engineer would to some kind of tangible asset.

Note: I'm not, and never have been a software engineer/developer.
 
rodo said:
A good day! Got a call saying successful at second interview. Getting paperwork this afternoon to look through. A little worried they'll aim at around 15k for what will be expected to be a plus 45 hour week. But a job is a job, might try to talk them up as it's a contract job.
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£15k isn't that uncommon for an internship (which typically pay less than fullon graduate jobs), if you impress you'll probably be at the front of the queue for any permanent positions that become available.

Also the games industry is notoriously badly paid at the bottom end.
 
Applied for a Sky engineer for my local area, passed the competency test over the phone and was told I will hear back soon about the 2nd assessment. 2 weeks later and sod all, phoned them up and left a message a few days ago and no ones got back to me either, pretty shoddy service for a company that emphasised customer service during the first interview.
 
rodo said:
A good day! Got a call saying successful at second interview. Getting paperwork this afternoon to look through. A little worried they'll aim at around 15k for what will be expected to be a plus 45 hour week. But a job is a job, might try to talk them up as it's a contract job.
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I hate money :(

I was quoted verbally more than i'm on, yet when the contract came through it was less money, and apparently there is no money available to budge it anywhere :(
 
Blackhawk47 said:
EDIT: Also headed down to the Job Centre this morning to sort out getting JSA...I figured that seeing as I have been working the past year paying tax and the like I might as well get JSA to help pay for petrol/car/phone/bit of rent. Might be a bit frowned upon on here but it should help me out a bit until I find something. :o
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Not at all man, if anyone frowns upon it tell them where to go? You've paid taxes, your looking for work and have no income (presumably? :p) So you're more than entitled to it.

I thought people may look at me funny for claiming,yet I had been working full time for 6 years or so, meh, every little helps :)
 
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