BS: Good luck to interviewees

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 08:58 AM

congratulations on getting back into your field.

sandra

pick a number, any number - 79 - now add a % sign, & that's the score.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: HuwG
Date: 30 Aug 07 - 08:59 PM

Very, very late update. I have landed a Software Engineer job, at a firm which markets a computer booking system for minicab firms. After four years out of the industry, they are offering a comparative pittance of a wage, but will review matters after sixty days.

They threw a technical test at me, and told me I had scored 79%. Quite how they calculated that score from twenty "true or false" questions is rather a mystery. Luckily, they use software which I have used before, and also have on this very PC on which I am composing this message. (I have been attempting to rewrite some "abandonware" games in proper object-oriented, non-spaghetti C++. It is a slow process, but it has kept my hand in.)

I will still keep working behind the bar at weekends, to earn petrol money for the rest of the week.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 04:04 PM

that they are calling references is good!

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Mudlark
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 10:59 PM

Good luck to you both...and HuwG, from one leftie to another, if you managed to not smear everything with the heel of your hand as you wrote I think you did splendidly!

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Amergin
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 09:32 PM

thanks...my interview seemed to go pretty well...they have been calling all my references on my resume....so far it sounds promising...also got a job fair to go to Tuesday.,...

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 29 Aug 03 - 02:49 PM

Good Luck Amergin and HuwG. I will keep my fingers crossed for you!

Best of Luck

Khatt

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: HuwG
Date: 29 Aug 03 - 12:55 PM

I went for one yesterday, and am still a nervous gibbering wreck. Nowhere to park, so I am two minutes late to begin with. Then they threw the dreaded technical questions at me. They told me to write some C++ code on the right-hand side of a white board, which itself was jamed against the right-hand wall. I am left-handed. Interviewers were leaning almost horizontally to read my resulting downward-slanting drunken spider's trail. Aaargh !

"We'll let you know". Early next week sometime.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 29 Aug 03 - 12:36 PM

good luck! got fingers crossed.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Amergin
Date: 29 Aug 03 - 12:14 PM

I got an interview today with a company called Sitel....things are looking good though I already took the tests and passed with flying colours...but I'm still nervous...

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Jul 03 - 04:03 PM

So Khatt, do we start calling you Imelda or Dilbert?

Well done!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Shelley C
Date: 22 Jul 03 - 03:35 PM

Congratulations, Khatt. That 'YIPPEE' feeling is great, isn't it?
Hope all the other interviewees will be feeling it soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 22 Jul 03 - 12:54 PM

Congrats. And still wishing the best to the other intervewee Cats.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 22 Jul 03 - 12:43 PM

!!!!!!!!YEAH!!!!!!!!


I got a phone call today and I got one the jobs I went for the other week!!! As from the 4th August I will be working as an accounts assisstant in a large company in Docklands!! Im handing in my notice for my current job tomorrow!!!

There is light at the end of the tunnel.

Thank you for all your good wishes it helps to know there are people rooting for you!

Good luck to anyone else who is looking for work at the moment. The job for you is only round the corner.

Khatt

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Mudlark
Date: 19 Jul 03 - 03:23 PM

Good luck to all who are looking for work. It can be a difficult time, stressful and time-consuming. Keep your spirits up...make sure you remember that a job that doesn't come thru may be a blessing in disguise...it's about them, as much as it's about you...maybe more so.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Shelley C
Date: 19 Jul 03 - 02:46 PM

Helen - thanks for those encouraging words. Part-time sounds great! In fact that is also part of my plan - if I could find a part time job I'd be well made up.

Continuous good wishes to all job seekers, and I'll be winging special postitve thoughts to Illinois (though it's a hell of a long way from Birmingham, UK)

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 03 - 02:30 PM

Some years back my youngest brother lost his job when the store he'd worked at for 16 years was sold. Off and on after that he'd be unemployed, employed, unemployed. Then, two and half years ago, he was hired as a CADman at a company which makes heating elements (like, for McDonald's and such). Last week he worked overtime -- again.

Yesterday he was laid off.

He has two sons, both in high school now. His youngest boy was struck by a car a year ago last May and had knee surgery in September. After the surgery he started seizing; doctors are baffled, but it's getting better. Fortunately, his wife is a respiratory therapist and has health insurance through the hospital where she works.

He'll be starting his job hunting on Monday -- he's already renewed his substitute teaching documents.

It hits me right in the gut because I was nearly a year unemployed.

If you have a chance, wing some good thoughts over to west central Illinois way. He can use 'em right about now.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Morticia
Date: 18 Jul 03 - 08:04 PM

I'm sorry to hear that Geoff, but I reckon it's their loss.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Helen
Date: 18 Jul 03 - 06:09 PM

Shelley,

I did that - chucked in a job I had had enough of. It's scary but I think I did the right thing. I had a bit of a holiday and then found some part time work and I am still working part time by choice but I could get a full time job if I wanted to. I had a major career change and I am much much happier now than I have ever been in my life. I used the change to totally re-evaluate my life and work out what I really want to do and then started putting the plans into action.

Best thing I have ever done.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jul 03 - 10:57 AM

Let it roll off your feather Geoff - next one will be better.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 18 Jul 03 - 10:50 AM

Didn't get this one! :-(
Bum!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 18 Jul 03 - 06:51 AM

Well - My interview's done. Just waiting for a phone call about the result!
QUACK!

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Shelley C
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 04:25 PM

Or do I mean 'Good luck'.? I had too much white wine with dinner, I think - won't be able to afford that when I'm unemployed!

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Shelley C
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 04:22 PM

Good luck to you all! I have recently handed in my notice at work without another job to go to. A bit scary, but I just couldn't carry on taking the crap. I leave on 29th August. So (hopefully) I'll be getting some job interviews soon.
Hope everything goes well for all of us, especially Amergin struggling on the dole.
The ridiculous thing is that I am a Careers Adviser by profession, and I would never advise anyone to chuck in their job unless they had something else lined up. But I guess sometimes you just have to 'feel the fear and do it anyway'.

Goog luck, all

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Amergin
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 01:32 PM

As some one who is currently struggling on the dole....I hope you all have great success in your search...

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Tig
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 07:27 AM

Hope you don't cross EVERYTHING - or you won't be able to communicate with the interviewers.

Best of luck!

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Allan C.
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 01:44 PM

Best wishes to you all. Show 'em your good stuff...well...maybe that isn't very good advice, now that I think on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: nutty
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 12:29 PM

Good Luck everybody ...............

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Noreen
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 12:25 PM

How thoughtful! Thank you, Jane, and thank you all for the good wishes.
One interview Weds, and just this afternoon been offered another interview on Thursday, from an application I delivered by hand at lunchtime. Glad I stayed up late to write it!

(Everything crossed for Khatt and Geoff too.)

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 11:52 AM

From one who was unemployed two months ago -- the interview is your chance to brag. Don't fib, though. One of my employment coaches always said, "Absolute intergrity! Always!" Having worked for many years in "Human Resources" for some of the US's biggest companies, he knew what he was talking about.

And be yourself (but wait...you're all 'Catters...maybe this isn't such hot advice).

Another thing: scope out where you're going before the interview so you don't get turned around and can arrive 15 minutes early.

When it's over, thank everyone you talked to, including the receptionist.   In writing. (Tip: try to get cards from everyone so you know who they are and where to write them.)

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 10:35 AM

best of luck to you all!

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Amos
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 10:31 AM

Don't be shy. You already KNOW how good you are.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 09:58 AM

Good luck, folks.

R

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: pixieofdoom
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 08:53 AM

Good luck guys, hope it goes well for all of you

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Morticia
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 07:41 AM

got everything crossed here for you all, let us know how you get on, won't you?

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 13 Jul 03 - 07:20 PM

Thanx for the good wishes and GOOD LUCK to Noreen and Geoff too.

Im currantly employed but due to circumstances I need to find a better paid job....hopefully I will find someting suitable soon.

Good Luck

Khatt

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Helen
Date: 13 Jul 03 - 07:13 PM

Career Development eManual is an excellent site for working out your personal qualities, skills and values and that helps with one of the most common questions in job interviews which are about your strengths. Talking about your own strengths and good points is probably the hardest trick to master because many people tend to undervalue themselves.

(As an aside, by working through this self assessment you will end up with a three letter code called a Holland Occupational Code, and if you want to know what sort of jobs might suit you then
NY State CareerZone has an excellent list of jobs based on that code. Click on the three letters of the code and then "View Jobs" and see a list of a hundred or more, each with links to very detailed info about the jobs.)

I use both these sites in my job seeking skills courses.

The other major piece of advice I give is the trick I use myself: no matter what the question always answer by giving an *example* of where you worked or used a *skill/value/trait/strength*, and what *outcome* you achieved, e.g. "when I work as a vocational trainer I use my analytical and problem solving skills to create better training sessions for the students and many students have told me that I make the courses interesting and very practical and useful for them".

Noreen, CatsPhiddle and Geoff the Duck,

I hope it all goes well for you, and don't get too despondent if you don't get the first job you go for. Remember it is like courtship, it is a two sided affair. Both you and the potential employers need to feel happy that you can make a commitment to each other over the long term so if it doesn't feel right to you then believe that the right job is out there waiting for you and stay positive.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 13 Jul 03 - 07:05 PM

Oh Lordy, I sre do! I haven't had to hit the bricks in a while and I wish everyone well who has to. Remember to follow up on your interviews with a phone call. If you don't get the job, ask why not so as to improve your chances for next time. Send a thank you note when all is said and done.

Best of luck!

Subject: BS: Good luck to interviewees
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 13 Jul 03 - 06:56 PM

Several mudcatters are in the job market at present and at least three of them have interviews this week, Noreen, CatsPhiddle and Geoff the Duck so I'm sure you all wish them, and anyone else who is trying to get a job, the very best of luck.