Day 730

Aka Wednesday 30th January 2019

Today I had three job interviews today…the first seemed to go pretty well, it was at a job agency for a post at DEFRA, they were happy with my post work experience and really just wanted to get a better understanding of how I would fit in with the rest of the team…so it mostly felt like an informal chat (and later in the day I got a call back saying that they wanted me in the team, but that they were waiting to confirm with DEFRA exactly want they wanted in terms of personnel…although as I write this, 26^th February I’m still waiting to have the offer officially made!)…

…the second interview was at the Ministry of Justice and I felt that it went pretty good (narrator voice: it didn’t go that well and he didn’t make it past the interview stage)…and I felt warmed up from the first interview…but they asked me a question I hadn’t prepared for, ‘Why did I want the post’…a pretty obvious question, buy since I’ve been on Universal Credit my first criteria for applying for jobs has changed from how interesting the job is, is it something that will engage and challenge and be something meaty, too do I meet the job criteria, could I make it an interview and do the job…it’s a subtle difference, but also a massive difference…

…the last interview was at the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Housing…and at the time I thought that it went somewhere between middling and fair…but I wasn’t asked for any proof of i.d.  documentation, which makes me slightly suspicious that the interview went pretty poorly or that they already picked out who they want for the post and were just going through the motions…I guess we’ll see soon enough…also I was feeling a little tired of talking about myself and I don’t think that I was representing myself at my best…there was also a weird section of the interview, where I was basically asked word association style questions…

…and here’s some pictures I took while traveling to/waiting for my first interview:

…and I picked up today’s New Comic Book Day gems:

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…and the quality shoots back up for today’s crossword as I only needed to cheat on one twenty-third of the clues (one out of 23), I just couldn’t get from ‘nous’ to ‘gumption’, but a near clean sweep is still pretty good. I think having been through three interviews sharpened me up for the crossword as it was as if the little grey cells were firing on all cylinders.

…and some other crosswords/puzzles: