Another bad day

Today I couldn't find any jobs to which I could apply.

This was despite looking in the afternoon as well as in the morning; I hardly ever look on Friday afternoons.

I also phoned agencies who I had emailed during the week. Some of the responses were:

• you're too senior for this role
• the job has already gone
• it's a company to which I had applied, via another agency, a few months ago.

The last was a bit annoying. I had a very good chat with the recruitment agent. He concluded by telling me the name of the client and was just about to send me the job spec.

Damn. I had gone for a test with them some months ago. It was a mix of a standard test and their own, home-brewed one.

I normally do quite well on the standard test they were using (I've been tested with this by other companies). However, with this company I think I did generally quite badly. I had got up very early (by anyone's standards) and had had a horrendous journey by train. By the time I got there I could hardly write my own name.

Anyway I think these sorts of tests are insulting, especially to an experienced science graduate. That should be enough to show I'm reasonably numerate etc.