... when a HR manager at work discretely gives you the name of a good recruitment agency?
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.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Monday, July 27, 2015
Another week at work
On Thursday I flew to Berlin and then on to Helsinki.
I landed at Vantaa's terminal 1 and was picked up by friends.
Yesterday I flew from Vantaa's terminal 2 to Vienna and then back to Munich. Both Vantaa Terminal 2 and the terminal in Vienna were new and very impressive.
Although this was a private trip it reminded me of my days, just a few years ago, when I was a global project manager flying inter-continental and intra-continental almost every two weeks.
This upcoming week, however, I will go to the office (near to a whore house - not joking, they are legal in Germany) and be treated like a copulating idiot.
Something has to change.
I landed at Vantaa's terminal 1 and was picked up by friends.
Yesterday I flew from Vantaa's terminal 2 to Vienna and then back to Munich. Both Vantaa Terminal 2 and the terminal in Vienna were new and very impressive.
Although this was a private trip it reminded me of my days, just a few years ago, when I was a global project manager flying inter-continental and intra-continental almost every two weeks.
This upcoming week, however, I will go to the office (near to a whore house - not joking, they are legal in Germany) and be treated like a copulating idiot.
Something has to change.
Wednesday, July 08, 2015
Another contact
I was looking forward to my call yesterday morning with a headhunter.
At first she started off in German and I thought I was doing pretty well but she then asked if it would be easier if we spoke in English.
I conceded that being English, it would be easier for me.
She told me the name of the company for whom she was recruiting and that more or less killed the discussion.
I had worked with their English branch many years ago. When I told my boss there that I had finally resigned (they all knew I was unhappy there) he called me a "bastard".
Of course companies change over time and, in any case, this branch is in Germany. But a few months ago I bumped into someone who my company had had to sack over a year ago. And he was now working there.
The headhunter and I nevertheless ended the conversation very pleasantly.
At first she started off in German and I thought I was doing pretty well but she then asked if it would be easier if we spoke in English.
I conceded that being English, it would be easier for me.
She told me the name of the company for whom she was recruiting and that more or less killed the discussion.
I had worked with their English branch many years ago. When I told my boss there that I had finally resigned (they all knew I was unhappy there) he called me a "bastard".
Of course companies change over time and, in any case, this branch is in Germany. But a few months ago I bumped into someone who my company had had to sack over a year ago. And he was now working there.
The headhunter and I nevertheless ended the conversation very pleasantly.
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