Malvolios Blog

Job hunting that is. Been running for a week now, but a bit limited by having to work, and work in an open plan office, so the time to customise the CV and call the agency is a bit limited. MAde worse by fairly awful coverage for the mobile.

Still if it was easy it wouldn’t be fun, would it.

Already I’ve been bounced for the usual reasons, mainly not enough sector knowledge even when I have it, after all BP is in the O&G industry as far as I can recall from my time there.  But I’ve also been bounced for a programme manager role because they aren’t looking for Service Delivery Managers. Erm, no, you’re not, but that’s merely what I’m doing now, why don’t you read the whole CV you moron?

And of course the usual issue of the standard agent who is a mythical being only to be found away from his desk. I had one tell me he was working at another desk so hadn’t checked his email yet. OK, I think, so why did you answer your direct line then?

Still early days, let’s see how thnings develop.

Hang on – just had a call about a role closer to home. Fingers crossed…

Also I have been castigated (ooh err, missus) about my comment that Broadbean lets agents see your history, so I did a bit more digging.  The source, which I picked up second hand (hey, this is a blog, I do proper research for the one I get paid for!) is a comment from an agent on another board – “Industry standard tool is a product called Broadbean. When you apply through a job board, you go into the pile, and we get a summary of each candidate when we look at the list of applicants. On that summary is the last 3 roles you’ve applied for, and how they were flagged (red, amber, green).”  Think I’ll let the professionals worry about that one

Now where did I put my worry beads…