Shady Goings On

I was supposed to have a job interview today, but it didn’t really work out (not my fault). Hopefully I’ll have it later in the week.

Keep you posted.

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Amzanig huh? And I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!

Every now and then we have one, and we had one this weekend.
On the Friday night we went out in Nottingham on the pop, as it was Pauls’ birthday, so we met with him and had a few beers too. Despite this, the Saturday was an early morning as we had to get to Loughborough to meet our friends Giv and Derek. We helped chop down (or was it dig up?) an old tree from Givs’ garden and uproot the remains of a shrub or something like that. Derek was extremely enthusiastic with the saw, particularly when it came to climbing up the tree and swinging about in it to break the branches off!
Our hard work was rewarded with excellent company and great food for lunch.
We then disappeared off to do the weekly shopping and then back home as Alison had an interested buyer for her car at long last. As it happens they weren’t interested in the car, but instead left us to watch the TV and slob out for the night.
On the Sunday Alisons sisters came across for a while, they were down in Nottingham for Pauls birthday and came to see us too. Jennifer mainly slept on the sofa and Sam went on the internet. Sam took her printer back that we’d borrowed for the wedding invites, it was really handy to have but it’s nice to have some space back again.

OK, just had the interview and things did not go as well I had hoped.

For starters they are not looking for a Field Applications Engineer at all, they are looking for a Salesman. This was quite a problem for me. Although I have quite a bit of customer facing experience and dealt with some blue chips on a daily basis it was not in a sales capacity. So when they said “tell me about your sales experience” I was a bit short of words. Needless to say the interview went downhill from my point of view from that point onwards.
They went on to tell me about another role they might have, and I suspect this may have been the role they were really interviewing me for all along. It’s a software development role that they have had trouble filling. The role actually sounds really good so I gave it my all, even though this would mean five days in the office. Oh yes, and it’s not a one hour drive as I supposed, more like two (but I wasn’t late).
Well they interviewed me for both roles and I wait to hear the result. To be honest I’m not holding my breath, don’t get me wrong, neither of the roles are to be sneezed at but I’m not confident I’ll get the call.
I’m really disappointed that the role wasn’t what it was advertised to be, in fact, for from it.

Lucky for me I have more in the pipeline.

Tomorrow I have a job interview. “At last” I’m thinking. It only took a year.

This is a very positive sign. The company in question (Intrinsyc) is based in Halesowen, to the West of Birmingham. They design and manufacture PDA’s and other single board computers for development purposes, so that a PDA software developer (for instance) can try out the latest hardware and have debugging facilities. This helps hardware and software developers get their product to market much quicker than before.
So they are looking for a Field Applications Engineer, the role involves consulting with a potential customer and trying to convince them that your solution is the answer to their problem, of course with all the technical information to go with it. The role is quite technically involved and will need demos setting up, test applications writing etc.
It all looks really good and I have to say the salary is quite attractive.
The only real downside is that it’s at least an hours drive away. This is not so bad though, as only two days would be in the office, the rest on customers sites.

Wish me luck!

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