Here's an exciting combination of circumstances leading up to an interview I have tomorrow: My kids have come home covered in nits I...

My sister said to me the other day that I should be careful about posting negative sounding messages on here in the jobsearch chain: and she...

I've been applying for around 6 - 10 positions a day and have had some interest since my last posting. Had a call yesterday about a po...

After a period of radio silence I got in touch with the agent who was talking about the job in London at the financial firm.  It turns out t...

I went over to Norwich yesterday for an interview with a small IT firm there.  The interview itself went OK in as much as I got on well wi...

I'm just off the phone to a more than helpful agent who is representing an equity firm who require an IT manager/SysAdmin. I really li...

After the misery of my last posting (apologies) some good news to report at last. I have an interview in Norwich next Wednesday: so finger...

I had hoped that the end of August would bring about a change in fortunes,  but no. Either there's nothing out there or I just can...

Now the bank holiday weekend is over again it does seem that the jobs market is waking up again a bit. For the last few weeks I have been ...

I've done well considering its August,  probably the worst month to try and get a new job. I've had a couple of interviews. The ...

First one went very well yesterday,  at Surrey CCC.  Its always hard to tell what the "other side" thought of you but it was all v...

Great news: looks like the new CV is paying off as I have my first interview now booked. Next week I'm up for what looks like a great ...

I look more like the chap in my signature photo now  (OK: still quite a lot older but not that different),  the wookie look has gone. Who...

Sad to say I no longer look anything like "The Master" from Dr Who (for those of you with long memories).  The beard just did not ...

It was the last day of my monthly railcard today so I decided to make use of it and go down "to the smoke" to see an agent. Here...

I came to an agreement with my former employers today: so financially all the details are now sorted. Yikes: that means that at 5 today I ...

Freemind My wife suggested to me that I organise my thoughts using a diagram. This got me thinking about geeky ways to achieve the above....

A whole bunch of people have suggested I use LinkedIn as a job-seeking resource. Several have done LinkedIn job searches for me and poste...

Well,  a pretty awful thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. My company (I'm still officially working for them as I type, but I a...