Job search
Well, spoken to three people from two different agencies.
The first person rang me on Tuesday within hours of me sending off an old version of my CV in response to a job on the jobserve website. Only it turns out it wasn’t his job I applied for (I had applied for one in Welshtown), but the person who looks after my geographical area was on holiday, and this other guy wondered if I’d be interested in looking at jobs in London or the South East…..
He also came up with a ridiculous salary which he thought I was worth - lots of points for effort there, and hell, if he came up with a job paying me that much I’d definitely move to London.
The next night, his ‘friend’ rang me. When I mentioned I had spoken to his colleague, he didn’t sound too pleased. However, he sounded much much happier when we talked about the job in Welshtown, and he mentioned the new Head of Department who had recently taken over. I laughed. “Oh, I know P,” I said. “I used to work with him.”
So, my CV has gone off there, and I will be very surprised if I don’t at least get an interview. And the salary is unlikely to be off the scale as suggested by this guys colleague, but he did think he could get me another £5k. Not that I am moving because of the money, but hey, I’m not going to turn it down.
Then yesterday I spent about an hour on the phone to another agency. I don’t think this agency has any specific jobs, but she is sending my CV off to several companies.
And next week I am off to a seminar run by one of the consultancy firms well known for the software that I use. The consultancy firm who are often looking for people to work for them. People like me, who have passed their exam (as I did at the conference), and having had a paper accepted by the Global conference and been invited to speak then I am sure that will make me even more attractive.
I hope to have handed in my notice by Christmas.