We found ourselves back in Edinburgh, in no small part because even those places looking to hire people “immediately” in Inverness actually meant “we’ll take a look at CVs over a week or so, then do interviews a week or so after that”, which … Was sub-optimal.
I did start the job-applying process in Inverness; At least, that portion which involved sitting inside, in the approximate warmth, updating my CV¹ & signing up with a recruitment site, then flinging applications out into the void, never to be heard from again.
¹ It needed a fair bit of updating, and a certain amount of reconciliation between different versions.
WINZ had me do at least one, maybe two, and a career guidance firm who I was pointed at after the redundancy also had a go at one.
I’m not sure who did the version with the left and right aligned text on the same line; It looks nice, with the dates off on the other side of the page, but it turns out that right tabs are a thing that exist in Word, and that you don’t need to get the effect by hitting ‘space’ a lot. Equally, there’s a difference between a section and a page break, in that one of them doesn’t mean I spend ten minutes trying to work out why I can’t change the headers & footers across the document all at once.
I’m staying in a hostel where, rather than numbering the rooms, they’ve named them, along with the assigned beds; I’m in the Lord of the Rings room, bed & locker Samwise.
Other rooms on this floor include “Will & Kate” and “Batman and Robin”.
Merry and Pippin were already moved in, though not in evidence when I got there; They turned up later. Frodo has yet to make an appearance.
The hostel is a bit historic;
High Street Hostel operates inside a historical 470 year old building formally known as Morton House. The resident, Earl of Morton, was beheaded in 1581, a consequence of his involvement in the murder of Mary Queen of Scots’ husband.
Tried to get a decent shot of the exterior wall in the room, but … I’d need a wide angle lens or something. Near as I can tell it’s the real thing.
There’s not a huge amount to report at this stage.
I inadvertently applied for a permanent job with ESRI UK while in Inverness (It seems that the job search site regards those settings as guidelines, rather than what you actually wanted), but decided that, if it were to come up, I’d be fine with that.
They contacted me a day or so ago to ask about salary expectations, and I’ve heard nothing since. Hopefully I didn’t scare them off by pitching too high.
I’ve also had a string of emails as my CV was passed from recruiter to recruiter on it’s way to Bangkok.
Last I heard on that one, it was with the actual client.
No idea why a hotel aggregation site want a temporary GIS bod, but I’m keen to find out.
Caught up with some Edinburgh folks last night.