Despite leaving for a short trip to an interview, I forgot that not all S-bahns go straight through the city and the one that I was on suddenly veered south.
I got off and walked to the interview getting there bang on time.
The interviewer, of course, was late by about five minutes - not unusual in Germany.
He was friendly enough although he explained the rather strange structure of the company - it was though, a recruitment company and I thought I had applied for a particular position with a certain (named) company. So I wondered why I needed to be bothered by a recruitment agency's structure.
Although I had applied to an English man, in English as requested this interview was in Foreign so I may have missed a few things.
Anyway it turned out to be a non-specific interview and went on for about an hour. In Foreign. Quite exhausting.
A diary based on my latest attempts to get a job; this time in Munich. I'm an engineering graduate (and chartered engineer) with more than 10 years' experience in IT. Over five of these years have been spent in team leading and project management roles both in the UK and abroad.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Online jobs fair
Just now I logged into an online jobs fair.
I had tried to complete my registration last night but there was a glitch: either in their system or in me.
Anyway today it all went smoothly and I was able to peruse the fair. It was a website which rather accurately mimicked the layout of a real jobs fair.
Rather good.
The only thing was I couldn't find any suitable jobs not least as it was in German - ein IT Jobmesse run by ubivent.com who do these virtual events.
I had tried to complete my registration last night but there was a glitch: either in their system or in me.
Anyway today it all went smoothly and I was able to peruse the fair. It was a website which rather accurately mimicked the layout of a real jobs fair.
Rather good.
The only thing was I couldn't find any suitable jobs not least as it was in German - ein IT Jobmesse run by ubivent.com who do these virtual events.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Just
The local unemployment agency obliges me to apply for one to three jobs per week.
Right now this seems to be getting a bit harder. This morning I went through 13 pages of job but could apply to none (except the ones to which I had already applied a week or so ago).
Having just closed down the web site I received an email from an agency with an urgent requirement for someone in the PMO field - which I guess I could do.
It's not exactly down my street - in fact it is in a part of Germany I haven't heard of - and it is not exactly what I do - but often I get appropriate jobs from the initial contact anyway - but it still counts as an applications.
Right now this seems to be getting a bit harder. This morning I went through 13 pages of job but could apply to none (except the ones to which I had already applied a week or so ago).
Having just closed down the web site I received an email from an agency with an urgent requirement for someone in the PMO field - which I guess I could do.
It's not exactly down my street - in fact it is in a part of Germany I haven't heard of - and it is not exactly what I do - but often I get appropriate jobs from the initial contact anyway - but it still counts as an applications.
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