Wk8 - I Got an Interview. Cool!

I have had a rather busy week!..and, A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW!!!!!

I have no idea how it went (I put the phone down and instantly forgot everything I had said), but I'll tell you about how it came about...

So I got in from Football training on Monday evening and checked my emails to find one from Centrica. I had submitted an application and completed the online assessments about 10 days ago and thought it would just be another ‘sorry, we’ve had better applicant so we’re not bothering with you for now’ type of email…but it wasn’t. They invited me to take part in a telephone interview! I had a choice of three dates/times and booked the 2pm Friday slot. It lasted 45 minutes. Now, as a lot of people will know, get me on the phone, chatting about anything and everything – I can talk for hours!!...but this was one of the longest 45 minutes of my life.

Anyway, the very pleasant Malgorzata said that I’d hear from them by email by the close of business on Tuesday. So we wait.

Other than preparing for (read, panicking about) the interview, this week I handed in my HRM coursework. I’m glad that one is over; I could have kept tweaking it forever otherwise. I also submitted my application for the Professional Passport. I’ll hear back about both of those in January. So with those both finished, it was on to the other pieces of work due in the next couple of weeks. I did a bit more of my LPD profile by completing Items 8 and 9 and starting on 11 (out of 12). Over this weekend I’ve done the beginning of my 3000 word Library Resource Management essay,

‘The development and maintenance of an academic library collection and the importance of collection development policies’

(a working title!)

and done some prep work for my Managing Contemporary Organisations class this week.

Other things I’ve been up to this week include a bit of peaceful protesting against the education cuts and rising tuition fees.

There are lots of events taking place across the country. Facebook is probably the best way to find out where the nearest demonstration to you is.

In Manchester, the next event organised by MEAN (Manchester Education Activists Network) will take place on Tuesday next week (30th November). Pickets lines beginning at 8/9am in schools, colleges and universities, a walkout at 12 noon and an assembly at 1pm at Catherdral Gardens.




All the information is available by clicking here (for Manchester) or here (for details of over 35 other events around the UK).




With temperature dropping to a ridiculously cold -4C (during the night) in Manchester this week, my other main activity has been trying to keep warm with a mulled wine or two at the Manchester Christmas Markets:

...and a Bratwurst, and perhaps a crepe, oh, and a whisky hot chocolate too...

Over the next week i'll be carrying on with coursework and trying to at least organising the filming of part 12 of my LPD portfolio, a 5 minute mock-interview.

Oh, and i'll hear from Centrica too... I won't be holding my breath but I'll probably cross my fingers quite tightly every now and again.

Until next week,

peace out.