Woohoo! That is fantastic news. Good luck! (I may not be able to cheer you on next week, I will be out of the country and don’t know how much internet access I’ll have.)
Wohooo! Congrats!
Congratulations! Good luck!
Yay Quartz!
crosses fingers
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Grrrr, the only thing worse than interviewing for a job is waiting to hear the results.
Tick…tock…tick…tock…
Still waiting.
At least there is some good negative news. One of the people who is supposed to be participating in the next round as an interviewer told me she hasn’t been asked to schedule anything either. Which means the process is not simply proceding along after dumping me off the short list.
I was laid off on January 29, 2009
I have had little luck up until now in the job search
Yesterday, I had an interview at my favorite sporting goods store, a store I worked at when I was back in high school as a summer job, a place I always loved, the store is currently under a pay and full-time hiring freeze, I was interviewed for a Temporary Part Time position (33 hours/week, 6 months start, possibility of permanent full-time) there, for a Shooting Sports position, dealing with the Federal 4417 forms for firearm purchases, the gun floor is always busy, and at the moment, the salespeople have to walk the customer through each 4417, then enter the paperwork into the database, the average wait time to be waited on is around 30 minutes+, longer when it’s really busy
with this new position, the salesperson would bring the customer and the firearm to me, and I’d walk them through the filling out of the 4417 and the background check, allowing the salesperson to help another customer
the gun floor is incredibly busy, and has been for a while, they think it should continue on for the forseeable future, and this job could easily transition to full-time
the store is a mere 5 minute drive from home, and they have been in busines since 1934, so it’s a stable company
the other interview, today, was for the “brain-dead-easy” job I referenced a few posts back, it’s not in my field at all, but it too is 5 minutes from home, full time 40 hours, full benefits, and flexible scheduling (they’re open 24/7), it’s not something I would make a carrer of, but it would keep a steady paycheck coming in while I keep up the search for something better
I’ve basically been offered this job, and can start whenever I’m ready, I’m going to wait to hear from the sporting goods store first though, as I like that store better, I told them I have another interview result pending and the interviewer said “okay, just let me know when you’re ready”
I would really have preferred to stay in the computer repair field, but that industry is getting hit hard in my area
at this point, any job is welcome
Good luck with the new gig MacTech.
Yes, good luck. Nice to have some choices. And good to hear that your unemployment period hasn’t been too long.
Glad some stuff is coming through for you – I’ve been worrying about you, I know how gobsmacked you were by the layoff. As Boyo Jim says, nice to have some choices!
A choice of two jobs? And one is willing to wait? Excellent news!
And the wait goes on. And the wait goes on. And the wait goes on.
I’m away now on business for a week. I may or may not have web access, so for all those waiting for a call: sending out good luck thoughts!
Absolutely no movement for me whatsoever. The selection (online, anyway) has gone down drastically, as one might expect. I don’t see myself employed any time soon.
Of course, most of this is of my own making. I was laid off years ago, and I’ve been supporting myself since through freelance work and savings. But obviously, I was/am doing SOMETHING wrong, not having gotten another steady job in all that time (except for a couple of contract assignments). I’ve taken some technical writing training, and am doing some Web design training at the moment, but who knows if that’ll help at all.
We’ll see what happens, I guess.
Whoo hoo, good news that I have made it through to the final round!
HR didn’t call me – I passed my stress limit and called them. “Oh yes, you’re in the final group. We have to get an interview panel of 3 physicians together at the same place and time, and we’re having some trouble with that, but we’ll call you soon.”
That’s doubly good news for me. I know most of the physicians and AFAIK none of them have any issues with me and most of them think I’m a pretty smart and handy guy to have around. Everyone on that panel will either have a positive impression of me already, or won’t know me at all.
Yay!
Well, it’d good to hear some of us are having good luck.
I never got a call back from the potential job that has now dicked me around twice. First last fall, and now last month. The woman I interviewed with both times seemed so happy to talk with me, and said I was great and that I should get a call from someone else after she made her recommendation…and then nothing both times. Seeing as the last time we spoke she said I would have started in late April, and it’s now mid-April and there would have to be two more interviews, I’m very doubtful it will go anywhere.
:mad:
I really have no chance. EVERYONE else out there has more experience and/or education than me. Every time I got my spirits and hopes up about a job, they get crushed. I’m sick of sending out dozens of applications a week, not getting any response on over half, and getting rejection emails for the other half.
Interview tomorrow. I’m excited!
To expound on this…I am tired of sending out my resume over the internet, and not getting ANY response.
I even E-mail them…and I get nothing. At least have the decency to TELL me to crush my dreams instead of making me cling to a pathetic glimmer of hope.
Oh, I dunno. I contacted several companies weeks after sending them appplication cause I couldn’t stand the wait any more, and 3 in one day told me they weren’t interested in me. I concluded that an ongoing mystery was better.
A few months ago I applied for a job at the University Hospital here. They had started making all new applicants take an online personality test – well, they don’t call it that, they call it some kind of assessment. Anyway, not only did I not get the job, I got an email from their HR telling me I wasn’t eligible to apply for ANY job there for the next 12 months, when I could re-test. Presumably I could use the intervening time to seek counseling.
Quartz, good luck!
And my second interview is now tentatively scheduled for next Tuesday, in a way that tells me the HR person I spoke to the other day (see post #814) lied to me.
At the time she told me they hadn’t called me (I called her and asked) because they were having difficulty scheduling a 3 doctor interview panel for me, and they would call me when that was arranged. Today, the woman who called me to schedule, asked me to pick an early morning time next week, then said she would contact the doctors to see if that would work for them. So the woman yesterday just couldn’t bring herself to tell me the simple truth, which was either of two things. Either she had no idea why I hadn’t been called yet, or the scheduling person just hadn’t gotten around to calling me yet. Both answers would have been perfectly acceptable, in that at least she was able tell me I had made the cut. But these dumb little lies which are so easily disproven…
I was supposed to know the result today. I still don’t. Clearly, I didn’t ace the interview, but I don’t think I bombed it. I’ll chase on Monday.