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Lots of job offers

Jim — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:34:32 +0000

A few days later and I seem to have converted two job interviews into two job offers. So my current interview to offer rate is around 71% Not bad! I’ve practically handed in my notice (basically I just mentioned that I have offers and will be accepting one.)

Not 100% on which offer I’ll take. One is programming, which is what I want to do; however, it doesn’t pay that much (for a programming job) and would require me to relocate (and pay rent!) I was told on the phone that I had a very well on the interview and had exceptional assessment marks and that they really wanted me; so perhaps there is potential for a quick ascent within the company. To be fair, after a year with them I could be applying and getting jobs that pay £5-10k more; and they probably know this too!

The other is local so I can continue to sponge a free room for a while and get rich. The downside being it’s not an IT job, so I don’t get the magic of ‘experience’.

I am still at my current borefest for a few more days, so I can continue to post somewhat frequently. I then will have some days off, which probably means I won’t post here… I am still working on my ArrayList implementation, so I can get that finished soon (or not!) At the moment it is just a dynamic array, but I feel like using index list; which should give it some more speed… Or I could even make it use a tree architecture…

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Friday Interview Fun

Jim — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:47:02 +0000

Had an interview in Stockport today, which I found went rather well. So hopefully I now have my foot in the door… The job doesn’t really pay that well, but hopefully it will later down the line!

I had another interview on Thursday, which didn’t go as well as my preparation wasn’t as thorough. I made myself a 2 page ‘interview cheat sheet’ based on the most popular interview questions. I felt this really helped and will probably come in handy another day. I’ll be really happy to get out of the POS boring job I currently have. I can’t believe how crummy it is working in a call centre! It does help with the ‘give an example where you used your customer service/communication skills’ style of question though!

Got to drop off my dad at the airport at 6/7 am on Monday, not really happy about that. I don’t know my schedule until tomorrow, so for all I know I might be expected at 8am!!!

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Tempting fate can be good…

Jim — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:19:17 +0000

Quite funny how I said I have nothing to do. I just got a job today…

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