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Whisky Priestess
14:39 / 11.01.07
Right. A fat envelope, which can surely be nothing other than my full results, has reportedly arrived in the post this morning, and of course I am not due home tonight so will have to wait until Friday to open it.

But I shall be strong. And hopefully a bit drunk. But mostly strong.

If this is another false alarm I shall personally travel down to Norwich in order to administer some punchings.
 
 
Spaniel
13:02 / 12.01.07
LUCK!
 
 
COG
09:54 / 24.01.07
Luck please, for an interview that I have tomorrow. Only part time, but it will pay the rent + beers so it would be perfect.

I am nervous on 2 fronts.
1. I have no real office world experience although they say they train you up etc. Not the type of work that I'm used to doing at all.
2. It may be in foreign again and that will be horrible. When the guy called me to arrange an interview, it took about a minute on the phone before I could decipher what it was all about. Pray for an English interview (the job uses English so there's a 50/50 chance.
 
 
Triplets
10:44 / 24.01.07
It may be in foreign again

Um. Please to be explaining?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:46 / 24.01.07
If I recall correctly, cog lives in Barcelona, so presumably is hoping that the interview will be in English, rather than Spanish or Catalan.
 
 
COG
10:55 / 24.01.07
correctamundo. (that´s Spanish or Fonzi for correct)

It will either be Spanish or English. My Catalan is non-existent, so that won't work.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
12:30 / 24.01.07
Buen suerte, coq!
 
 
COG
16:25 / 24.01.07
Thanks. They've changed the date now. To my birthday. Gaah. At least it wasn't the day after my birthday. And I've found out that the interview can be in English. Hooray. Now I just have to scrape up some mart clothes.
 
 
Katherine
17:04 / 24.01.07
Good Luck!

And best wishes it is in english as well!
 
 
Spaniel
17:10 / 24.01.07
Luck is wished
 
 
COG
09:26 / 26.01.07
Well, thanks for the lucks. The interview was good and I think I have the job if I want it. I have to decide by Wednesday. Iunderstood everything, and when it was time to discuss my experience they brought in a translator for me. How cool. I even had to do 2 ridiculous fake sales excercises, to the person translating. So I'm not sure how much the person conducting the intrview got out of that. There is only one quandry. I've been offered 3 weeks of lucrative work back in England, that I wouldn't be able to do if I took this one. But this one is regular, if poorly paid, and I need regular right now. Darn it.

Anyway, I bought a big Spanish bun to have with my tea to celebrate, and today is my birthday so I'm off to a Catalan restaurant with a bunch of friends, and I may even get pissed.

Last thing, more luck needed please in relation to a special someone who has very recently come into my world. Going well so far, but you can never have enough luck.
 
 
Olulabelle
21:16 / 28.01.07
Me, me, wish luck please?

I have a job interview tomorrow at 11 am and it's for a job working two days a week for a sustainable development charity who promote recycling and sustainable living.

I so, so want the job. It's rubbish money but I don't care because it's a subject I really care about and it would fit in with my jewellery design and everything.

Excited.
 
 
sorenson
00:15 / 29.01.07
firstly, good luck ling-ling! it is exciting to find that perfect job - i really hope they see you are perfect for it.

now my turn - i have an interview this afternoon for a promotion to the next level in a part of my organisation (public service) that does really interesting work. i really want the job. but i am outrageously nervous (um, excited) because i have a strong hunch that they are really looking for external candidates rather than internal. and because they know me, they know all the bad things about me as well as the good. so i need lots of luck and a fair whack of false self-confidence...
 
 
Spaniel
07:42 / 29.01.07
Ling, luck from me to you!
 
 
COG
09:30 / 29.01.07
Good luck to everyone.
 
 
Tabitha Tickletooth
10:40 / 29.01.07
Luck with that job Ling - the tension's always worse when you really want it.

Sorenson - best of luck to you also. Is this the public service in the UK or elswhere? If in the UK, a positive note might be that many, if not most, civil service departments are under extreme headcount pressure at the moment and thus are being encouraged* to fill vacancies through internal recruitment. While they might be trying to run an internal process just in order to demonstrate that they can't find a suitable candidate that way, they will have to work very hard to build the business case for going external, AND unless all of the internal candidates couldn't sharpen a pencil they should be under pressure to pick one. As you are clearly a vastly skilled and experienced person, I believe this makes you much more likely to get the job.

Of course, if you're in the public service somewhere else, none of this might be true for you. But it might be.


*forced
 
 
Spaniel
12:56 / 29.01.07
Lots of luck to Sorenson too!
 
 
sorenson
22:09 / 29.01.07
Thanks!! I think the interview went ok, apart from my awful tendency when nervous to talk too fast and stumble over my words and have brain farts where I can't think of what it is I want to say. I'll let you know how I go.

Lula - any news yet?

Tabitha - I work for the Victorian Public Service in Australia. Usually here as well you have a definite head start if you are an internal applicant, but the branch I applied to is a little different, and I heard a rumour they are looking for 'new blood' - they seem to prefer ex-lawyers and consultants, of which I am neither. Needless to day, if they don't employ me, it will be their loss! I want the job because the work is varied and interesting - they are based on the Strategy Unit in the UK, if that gives you some idea. Which bit of the UK public service are you in?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
15:10 / 05.02.07
Catching bus in 10 min. for a certification hearing for my official translators' seal. Scared as hell. Wish me luck and set karma transfer to full at 5:25 p.m. EST, please.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
23:24 / 05.02.07
Well, that went terribly.
 
 
Tsuga
23:30 / 05.02.07
Shit, really? Is it one of those times where you really are sure it went bad?
 
 
COG
12:00 / 06.02.07
Hey, bad luck.

My luck that some of you wished me, seems to have been some weird Barbluck, in that I got rejected for the job, then yesterday they called again to offer it to me because the first person had dropped out. I knew all this already, as the original successful applicant was the friend of mine who got me the interview in the first place and she had called to warn me what was about to happen.

In addition, your Barbluck has also brought us together as a tentative couple, so double dose of YAY all round.

I will now join the ranks of the phone monkeys, but for only 4 hours per day, with the rest of my time free to study and sit on the beach. ha ha and ha.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
12:12 / 06.02.07
Wow. That's pretty cool, coq. Don't tell Matt Shepherd though, he'll think you stole his luck.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
12:27 / 06.02.07
No, I just think nobody wished me luck and everything went horribly. Which proves that (a) the luck thread works, and (b) ask for luck wishes early, because if you think of it too late you actually end up with a luck deficit and your life falls to tattered ruins around you.

Luck thread = dangerous. Use judiciously.
 
 
COG
12:48 / 06.02.07
Yeah, I feel pretty lucky. And p.s. it's Cog not Coq. ta.

Matt - I notice your luck request, but only after you would have been in the interview, hence no good wishes. Sorry. Surely being Bilingual there are lots of opportunities for interesting jobs etc. Hey, you could move to France and clean up with perfect English.(I'm presuming you have French as the other language)

To complement the weird Barbluck idea, upthread I asked for luck for an interview with an agency. No one replied, but I got some work through them. BUT it dried up after 6 weeks or so. My own luck could only take me so far I guess.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
12:49 / 06.02.07
Good luck all you folks.
 
 
doozy floop
07:49 / 15.02.07
I have a covert lunch today with people that might want to employ me, so I have to casually sneak out of the current workplace hoping that nobody here notices there's obviously something fishy going on because I'm wearing proper smart-type trousers and I've done a flicky thing with my hair to try and look a bit older and cleverer than I really am, and leg it across London for this odd thing that's not an interview because it's just having lunch, or is it an interview disguised as a lunch? And then I have to get back across London and resume a completely normal day in the current workplace, and all that theoretically within the space of an hour. O this is all some sort of horrible test isn't it?

If you wish me luck I might manage to not spill anything down myself, drop any food or be forced to eat something evil, like yoghurt.
 
 
Tabitha Tickletooth
08:55 / 15.02.07
Ooooo Doozy, that sounds so much more exciting than a normal job interview - and therefore, no doubt, so much more gut churningly terrifying. Still, I'm sure you'll be super and you do get a free lunch, after all.

Best of luck.
 
 
sorenson
10:35 / 15.02.07
To doozy - Good luck good luck good luck! it all sounds a bit sneaky and fun, actually. i hope it goes well.

i still haven't heard about the job, so nothing to report on the efficacy of the barbeluck phenomenon.
 
 
Tabitha Tickletooth
11:06 / 15.02.07
Ah Sorenson, the wheels of government do turn sooooo slowly. Any idea when you will find out? Sorry for not responding to your question up there. I somehow completely missed it. I currently work for the Dept for Work and Pensions as a propagandist (aka press officer/feature writer). When you see one of our minister's waxing lyrical in the Sunday papers, that's probably me. I did just return from a rather fun six month spell as a journalist at the Dept for Trade & Industry so I'm all for department hopping. Hope you get the job - although, if it's modelled on the PM's Strategy Unit over here, it does have a rather evil reputation as a SpAd-infested den of bullies amongst us lesser civil service types. It would probably be a great deal of fun, though.
 
 
doozy floop
13:43 / 15.02.07
Barbeluck works! We had lunch in a pub and at the end they invited me to join their merry band.

Now I just need to decide if I really want a job that would demand work, and if I can cope in an environment where you can't shriek along to the radio, have biscuit fights and occasionally lie on the floor for a bit just to see what the view's like.

sorenson, I hate that. I am bad with suspense. but no doubt the promotion offer is just being triple-stamped and photocopied somewhere in the wheels of bureaucracy...
 
 
sorenson
17:40 / 15.02.07
if it's modelled on the PM's Strategy Unit over here, it does have a rather evil reputation as a SpAd-infested den of bullies amongst us lesser civil service types. It would probably be a great deal of fun, though.

You nailed it. Well, I am not completely sure about the rest of the service's opinion of the branch I applied to (PSP), but I am 98 per cent sure that most of them think they are uppity know-it-all types (but have a secret grudging admiration for them). Does SpAd stand for special adviser? They've got a few ex-advisers running about in amongst the lawyers and ex Boston Consulting Group types (including the Director). But I currently belong to the equivalent of the Delivery Unit - so a move to PSP can only improve my chances of being liked by the broader service!

Your job sounds kinda fun. But do you often find yourself having to write stuff that you cringe at?
 
 
sorenson
17:41 / 15.02.07
and doozy, that is wonderful! i am very glad that i quickly got in with some good luck wishing for you.
 
 
sorenson
21:09 / 20.02.07
I didn't get the job. As I thought, they've hired external people (don't know anything other than that at this stage).

Back to the drawing board!
 
 
Spaniel
07:20 / 27.02.07
I want to send - not luck exactly, 'cause they won't need it - but good vibes to a some very good friends of mine this morning.

Some of you might well know who I'm talking about, so this seemed like an appropriate place.
 
  

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