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My boss took me away for a meeting yesterday morning. The business isn't doing so well so they've cut my hours back. And if they don't win a big huge tender that is the lifeblood of the company, I'm out of a job. I might be kept on part-time, but as I said to my boss the wages are bad enough without having to drop to three days a week. He did have the decency to look embarassed, at least.

I called my man at the agency at half four yesterday. So much for the phonecall from him at one! I didn't get the job because at the interview I seemed "under motivated". What the zark does that mean?? There weren't many questions, but I felt I answered them fully - in fact, I gave them more information than they asked for! They also said I was over qualified (so what? It means I can do the job better) and they gave it to someone the felt needed it more...I don't know why I bothered now!

So now I am practically out of a job with nothing in the pipeline. Any job I apply for these days I seem to be knocked back straight away. Why am I so unemployable all of a sudden?

Stomping foot in sympathy and syncopy...



Milla

'Under motivated' and 'over qualified' ie you are too smart for them and will realise the job is for dorks and quit too soon for them to actually acheive anything. It's a reverse compliment telling yuo to set your sights higher.

Either that or the bosses girlfriend/mistress/daughter/neice was up against you for the job and they had to interview other candidates to look fair.

If I get elected I will need someone to run my local office.

If you need a talented secretary/PA/all round good 'un you know where I am

Sorry Fords.

Out of interest- do you subscribe to the these e-mail alert job site thingies?

I am subscribed to Jobsite (not gobshite as it always looks like to me and S1Jobs.com

Every day I have jobs in my in-box to look through, and I can apply on-line if I'm interested in anything..

In short, a really cool, lazy way to job hunt

Or is it more the interview stage that's your problem?

Something will turn up, I'm sure it will.

Have you thought about sending some of the tapes from your radio shows to some of the local radio stations round where you are? You never know you might get lucky

Oh dear, now I'm getting worried about my interview 'undermotivated' Oh heck Hope somethign else comes up soon

I'm subscribed to Scotcareers and Monster, Winnoch. Just applied for a load of jobs . I'm also registered with about four agencies. I'm not actually getting a lot of interviews though - so far I've had about three. The feedback from one legal firm was excellent but they were being really fussy and my lack of legal experience was the biggie in that one.

Croz - it'd be a bloody miracle if someone liked my demo tape, but that is also a plan for the future. I know a guy who's on a local station and works with the BBC too and he's keen to help, but I wouldn't like to get a job in radio simply through him!