Ive got a new job

strawberry floating comet are finished. Im just hoping that they finish in the next month before I leave as Id get redundancy pay

I was a bag of nerves in my interview, but my reply to "what does it mean to get a job here at nationwide" got me the job

I answered " I'd get my first season ticket"

At which point one of the interviewers revealed themselves as a villa fan

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Finally decided to work on making a website. Going to use it as a portfolio for my web/photo stuff & it's a good way to get myself out there & show off what I can do.

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Congrats fella !

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There is this one job vacancy where I've basically done everything wrong and yet they keep progressing my application further.
First they emailed me about the job after seeing my CV and I completely ignored their email. So a week later they phone me up and offer me an interview. I go to the interview but I don't prepare and they stump me on the simplest questions ("what are your strengths"). I also do a test at the interview and I didn't know any of it so pretty much guessed every answer, so I know I did terrible at that.

Today they call me up and offer me a 2nd interview. I'm going to go to the interview despite starting a new job as it is much better in almost every way (better pay, easier to get to, more opportunity to progress) than where I'm currently working.

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Does anyone know where to look for summer placements, I'm looking to do somthing fairly academic so would it be best just emailing university professors around where I live?

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I guess they don't get many applicants for cat food taster.

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Yes?

I'm going to be eating lots of cat food then, as I got the job!

It was a bit awkward resigning from my current job after onky two weeks, but onto bigger and better things I go.

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Nationwide eh, Branch?

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Really need to start making money for myself properly but don't know what to do. Something I need to think about.

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eat gooseberry fool glowy

My friend did that, although he had worked for the previous company before.

I left my first job after 8 months. I found that pretty awkward too as I'd settled in and everyone knew me, but if a better offer comes along, what can you do?

You don't owe them anything.

Unless like me where your employer is paying for all university fees so I have to work a year after graduation.

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Yeah, it's just that these two weeks I've been mainly shadowing the experienced engineers so I've not really contributed a lot to the company yet. They seemed to take it well anyway, although it was strange that my car park pass didn't work later on when I was leaving. They better not have cancelled that already.

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I strawberry floating hate my job right now. Been waiting around for the move to the next position for over a year now and keep getting told " keep yourself ready, there might be something coming up soon". It's really demotivating and for the first time in years I wake up every morning fighting that fight of phoning in sick or not....

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Cannock

I start April 16th

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Mo' money

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Very similar to what I get now actually.

Instead though I get, normal hours, no weekends, no bank holidays, no late nights, no one day off at xmas. Its still 3 weekes away but I reckon I'll start to get more excited the closer it comes

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I've decided to pull my finger out and get myself retrained and get myself a new job. I've been prompted by a couple of things. I'm sick of how negative my current job makes me (even with the upsides of working there) and how it makes me feel working there. I also want out before the axe falls and jobs are lost in the upcoming cuts. The future for libraries over the next few years isn't a bright one.

So basically these are my aims:

Ideally I want to work in either the public sector or the voluntary sector. I know jobs in these sectors are few and far between right now but these are the sectors where I can see myself working. I've done the private sector and wouldn't want to go back if I can help it (the exception being working for a zoo, wildlife boarding kennel etc).

I need to get myself retrained. I have a two pronged plan here. With my library experience I'm in a good position to go into an information provision job (either public or voluntary sector) but I need to update my office skills experience (I have a little between the job I did between library jobs and some from the private sector job I did but nothing current) so I'm looking at doing half a day a week in the office of a local charity.

I'm also looking at doing some volunteer work one day a week at the RSPCA. Here I can do something I enjoy while working towards an NVQ in Animal Care. This eases me back into education, lets my decide if I want to take it further and get a degree. It'll get me much closer to something I really want to do and something I could see myself doing for the rest of my working career. I'd be happy doing almost any job working with animals from RSPCA, pet boarding (even considering setting up my own business) to conservation.

I'm going to get a hammering with my wages doing so much volunteer work rather than relief hours at work but I'm willing to take the hit if it means making a change in the long-term. So heading off now to hand in my volnteers application to the RSPCA.

I recently earned myself a fixed contract within the company for which I currently work. The upsides include a large increase in salary, more responsibilities and the chance to gain valuable experience in management. The downside is that the contract only runs until the 31st August, with no plans of an extension. I am extremely concerned that I could be back on the dole come September. It seems that permanent contracts are so difficult to come by and that the best I can hope for is to apply for another fixed term position when this one is coming to an end. I am just letting you all know this so that you will understand if I seem suicidal come autumn.

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Yes, students should absolutely aim to do a placement year. I didn't even apply to Unis where it wasn't part of the course.

Those who do business related courses usually have to do a placement, so NOT doing one is a massive disadvantage.

As it happens I (thought I) didn't enjoy my placement year and ended up staying an extra year at Uni... In the meantime I still applied for summer internships in summer 2011 at the investment banks and got a graduate job starting in September on an unbelievable starting salary. No way would I have got that without the year I spent on placement.

To add to the discussion about CV length, the investment banks won't usually accept a CV longer than one side of A4 which at least forces you to be concise!

My placement year is the best thing I've ever done.

It's set me up for life .... well thus far anyway. I'm now in a very well paid job at the age of 24 and in a very good position within a stable, well performing company. Fingers crossed my situation doesn't change. I'm 5 months in to my initial 6 month probation period ... if I pass I really am sorted - this time next month I guess I will know for sure!

The fact I've recently just been comissioned a project looking at the company strategy for 2017 would suggest I'm doing ok .. I wouldn't of thought they would be chucking me out the door if they got me working on that sort of thing.

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