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Jun 09, 2006 11:16
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London in the summer

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I love London in the summer. Here are the forecasts just to rub it in:
today 25
tomorrow 26
sunday 27
monday 28
these are temperatures not dates!!!

So, been out in the parks, enjoying the sun!

Also spent alot of time looking for jobs. I have joined a consultancy to help me in the hunt. They are specialist in the IT sector and have been teaching me heaps about how the market works over here. So, heres the rundown:

Clients (the employer) push vacancies out to their 5 perfered agencies - there are over 11,000 agencies.
Agencies advertise the job position.
Thousands of applicants apply online - so the game is to get out of the pool and become as many agents best friend as possible, develop relationships with them and make sure they think of you first!!
Each preferred agents (5 of them) , send the client 3 CVS out of the 1000's of applicants.
Out of the 15 CVs the client receives, they choose 5 to interview
1 person gets the job.

So if you dont know the game - at best you have a 1 in a 1000 chance of getting the job.
So i have been learning the game, and it is quite fun - playing the agents at their own game!

The agents are only there to make a buck, and they have dirty dirty tactics which I wont go into, but one is that they place fake listings on job sites, just to harvest CVs. They then ring you up and ask you where else you have applied, then promptly ring that place and offer another person for the role, effective shooting me in the foot!

So... its fun.

So I had a phone interview today, it went really really well and I have been told that I based on the interview I have the job - the client is just ticking boxes and confirming resources, so all is good. The agent was good to, didnt seem to be a cowboy like some of the others!

Im happy here at the moment.

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British Museum Regents Park in late evening, so warm and relaxing Look at the grass! I didn't know London had it in it! How to tell if a Kiwi has been in the tube Me and Sarah at the British Museum
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