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A Ramble through Smilie Land

To Whine and not dine- or maybe not.

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Nightshade
, 08-01-2009 at 02:18 AM (1582 Views)
You know what? I was going to write this whole long post whining about how being on the dole stinkas and is so freaking time consuming but complaing get a bit tedious and its the start of a new week today! So instead:
I applied for 1 job on wedensday, 4 on thursday and I still have a couple more to do by monday.
I had an interview yesterday for a caretakers post at the librtary I already work at, only causel but at peak time thats an extra 10 hours a week! and Ive already had all the traing and IVE DONE IT BEFORE!
But before my interview I had my first crafts session. Originally it was going to be just me and 15 6-11 year olds, fortunatly for me someone messed up and I ened up with 4 under 6s whihc meant I had to have a helper ( health and saftey regs and all that) It was rather good if I do say so myself, but I had barley got the room cleared ( after an hour of making up stories and making maps and such) and set up for the interviews and I got called in for my interview.
The bosslady goes I haved to tell you tyour interview technique has improved SO much since last time I interviewd you. Frankly, I should hope so since last time she interviewed me I had a panic 'episode' and started to list the ways I sholud NOT be hired for the job.
Sadly I didnt get it. Anyway so our new librarian rings up and I think it might have been his first time on an interview panel, but you could tell he felt really ackward about saying yes Im sorry we havent given you the job, see you bright and early for work tomorrow. so me like the great idiot I am say : OH thats not really a bad thing really, now if I get a job somewher else in the country I won't have to feel guilty leaving you in the lurch.
And because I was trying to make hime not feel akward I did get mad about it until and hour or so later, and thats always the way. whenever someone rings up to say look you havent got the job nightie comes out full force and I start saying stupid things like it doesnt really matter, or thats ok I wan't really sure I wanted the job.
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Well except the time I spent over £100 on the interview didnt get any reinburcment for costs and was told I obviously didnt like reading or books... That time I was just too mad to speak!

One good thing though I now ghave a new complete life plan for the next year.
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  1. Virgil's Avatar
    Best of luck on your intervewing Nightie. I hope you gert a great job. Spending a 100 pounds is quite an expense on your part. I think where I work stopped reimbursing people for their expense for interviews. I don't think we do that either any more. Somewhat unfair, but there are a large number that come for interviews and that would be a lot to put out.
  2. TheFifthElement's Avatar
    So what's the life plan Nightie? Wow, you've applied for a lot of jobs, I hope one of them works out for you.

    Interviews suck (I speak as both an interviewee and interviewer) but often in reasonably sized organisations there's a trick to them. They generally follow some kind of formula and often are more based around attitude and approach than actual skills - skill, or lack of, is usually weeded out before you get to interview stage. Interviewers are generally looking for examples, so if you get asked a question like: 'how do you know when you've met a customer's needs', they'll be looking for an answer which shows that you've understood the question and an example of how you've done it in practice. So you might say: 'well, a lady came into the library once looking for this kind of book, so I did X and X and we found what she was looking for and she thanked me, so I knew I'd done a good job.'. And so on.

    Saying strange random things might not be the best idea though
  3. pussnboots's Avatar
    good luck on the job interviews!!
  4. applepie's Avatar
    Good luck with the searching. I hate looking for jobs as a whole, and I hope you find something that will suit soon. Take Care, Meg