A phone call

Despite suffering from near fatal influenza blokus I yesterday called a recruitment consultant who had found me a job in Munich a couple of years ago.

We actually spoke a few months ago when he called me to check my availability. Things were looking up in the recruitment world.

Of course things are now looking "50/50" in the recruitment world. Still, I sent him my c.v. and will call him on Friday.

Slow down

I didn't let the week before get me carried away in a job hunting frenzy.

My efforts last week was limited to attending a Xing dinner.

This is a networking dinner operated by www.xing.com in Munich.

You sit at a different table for each course and meet new people.

Really though, in terms of making useful contacts it's not very beneficial.

But for me it's a chance to practise my German.

And the food's good.

Slept

Yesterday I updated c.v. and then slept on it.

Just as well. I had tailored it quite specifically for my Telepresence experience (that's what's the job for) but didn't think to change the section header. It said "IT Project Management".

Today I changed it to match the contents ... it now says "Telepresence Project Management"

So, today I applied for one job, for which I was contacted on Friday and so that counts as a bite.

A nice start.

Timing

I'm not unemployed but the feeling at work isn't good. There will be redundancies.

Lots.

Must be ready, update my c.v., actively network and survey job sites.

Must, must, must.

Yesterday one of my mobile phones rings. It's an agency in London. They're looking for project and programme managers with experience in Telepresence.

In other words, they're looking for me (I have project and programme management experience in Telepresence).

The timing might be good. Their client isn't ready just yet but may be they will be when I know, by the end of October, if I'm in the first round of redundancies.

I'll leave you now as I must check and maybe up date my c.v.

Local difficulty

Do you realise how difficult it is to job hunt when it's the Munich Oktoberfest?

Very.

Deep joy

I've been listening to Pink Industry's "What I wouldn't give" and Force Majeure's "Out of My Mind" so life is undoubtedly good.

But not that good.

You see I was working as a freelancer for a major company. And it was going so well that they asked me to go permanent. Which I did.

And it is still going well ... for me. For the company generally, not so good. In fact not good at all.

Within six months they've gone from talking about increasing headcount to announcing the need for major redundancies.

Time to get job hunting.