Last Wednesday, a taxi driver known as ‘Birdy’ calmly took his rifle with him in his car, and went on a rampage around the North West of England. In total, he killed 13 people in and around Whitehaven, a large town in Cumbria. While it is no longer the first item on the news, the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Graduate Talent Pool’
8 Jun
Not something you read everyday.
Posted by graduatecalling in Uncategorized. Tagged: applications, career options, day off, Derrick Bird, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, Honorary Northener, internships, interview, jobcentre fun, looking for a job, looking for a proper job, looking for jobs, Not actually employment related, PGCE, Whitehaven. Leave a Comment
17 May
Job Centre Lowdown
Posted by graduatecalling in Finding a job, list. Tagged: being vulgar, career options, dole, employment, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, interview, job centre, job centre plus, jobcentre fun, looking for a job, looking for a proper job, looking for jobs, on the dole, ooooh! distracting, the economy, unemployment, volunteering, what to do in the job office. 1 Comment
A good friend of mine has become ‘involved’ with the job centre (because any other word gives the impression that she would like to spend time there). Like many of my other friends, and myself, who have had to throw themselves upon the bosom of a faceless bureaucracy, I hated every single moment of the [...]
21 Feb
Me: 1, Boredom: 0
Posted by graduatecalling in Finding a job, Not actually employment related. Tagged: Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, hospital radio, interviewing your MP, mp, Not actually employment related, not employment related, ooooh! distracting, shop assistant, shop work, update, working in a shop. Leave a Comment
It’s always nice when plans. no matter how vague, come together. However, it would have been nice to interview my MP on my hospital radio show, without covering myself in mud 5 minutes beforehand. I had actually gone out of my way to dress like a professional (skirt and all), and just as I went [...]
1 Feb
Interview-tastic shenanigans and getting up on my high horse
Posted by graduatecalling in Uncategorized. Tagged: Andrew Hankinson, career options, Diversion, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, interview, job centre, jobcentre fun, looking for a job, looking for a proper job, shop assistant, shop work, the economy, unemployed, unemployment, volunteering, working in a shop. Leave a Comment
Well, I had the interview on friday and a follow up on monday, and once again I am being all cautious about it. This is out of habit and a semi-superstition that I have. I am scared that if I turn round from the interviews, particularly a second stage interview, and say ’actually, that went [...]
10 Jan
It is an ex-dole folder, it has ceased to be.
Posted by graduatecalling in Finding a job. Tagged: dennis, employment, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, job centre, jobcentre fun, looking for a job, lots of snow, ooooh! distracting, Snow, snow in the UK, snowman, unemployed, unemployment, working, working as a christmas temp. 1 Comment
Today, because my mum finally lost patience with the fact that my stuff was piled up in every room of the house, I was made to do the annual trawl. This largely requires me to argue that ‘it might come in useful’ at my parents, sulk, and then throw t all into bin bags. I [...]
18 Nov
Speaking as a bookseller…
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, Not actually employment related. Tagged: Black Books, books, Bookstore, Christmas job, Diversion, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, The Guardian and Waterstones, unemployed, waterstones, Working over Christmas. Leave a Comment
Okay, I may or may-not be a part-time bookseller for the company described in this article by the Guardian (which should really know better, especially when it sells a lot of its books). I admit it. Therefore, this article explaining why my company is supposedly destroying an industry does not make much sense [...]
2 Oct
New Maths
Posted by graduatecalling in better luck next time, Finding a job. Tagged: applications, being vulgar, career options, driving test, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, internships, interview, job centre, jobcentre fun, looking for jobs, ooooh! distracting, the economy, unemployed, unemployment, volunteering. Leave a Comment
This is a calculation I have had swimming round my head for the past month or so, that I feel I want to share with you all. Since about May, I have not counted how many jobs I have applied for. However, rough calculations based on at least 2-3 applications completed every week, alongside the [...]
13 Sep
Fatherly advice
Posted by graduatecalling in better luck next time. Tagged: application forms, Checkout, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, job centre, jobcentre fun, ooooh! distracting, unemployed, unemployment, volunteering. Leave a Comment
I had two rejections today-one for an application form I had just filled in, plus another for an internship I applied to a couple of weeks ago (I am particularly impressed by that one, where it is rather obvious that they copied and pasted rejections, and then just checked the name at the end to make [...]
7 Aug
If
Posted by graduatecalling in better luck next time, Finding a job. Tagged: Anna Sam, career options, Checkout, Finding a job, finding a proper, finding a proper job, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, guitar hero, job centre, jobcentre fun, looking for jobs, Morcombe and Wise, New Deal, retail, shop assistant, stuff, stuff'n'things, the economy, Victoria Wood. Leave a Comment
I know that there is something sad about dragging out computer equipment in order to type in the sunshine, but I can’t quite figure out why others think that is. After all, I’m actually getting work done, and my body is so sun starved thanks to the biblical proportions of rain that have been falling, [...]
1 Aug
Blast Lab!
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, Finding a job. Tagged: Blast Lab, career options, finding a proper job, Gap Year, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, internships, Richard Hammond, unemployed, unemployment. 2 Comments
I’ve just discovered Richard Hammond’s Blast Lab. It features his car, Oliver, in the opening titles. All I can say is ’Bloody hell, I wish this show was on when I was younger’. It is perfect kids, students, and people who should know better tv. I’ve been reading about the whole ‘send-the-yoof-away-to-get-experience-for-the-CV-but-also-to-stop-them-signing-on-if-it-all-turns-to-worms’ (stand up every newspaper [...]
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