One day at a time

Rosed

Well done! I hope the next interview goes well for you. I would like to suscribe to your diary but need to find out how to do it!

rdchick

Weee that's great news Sparkerly!! See you never know what's around the corner! xxx

monicamj

Fingers crossed! I can relate to the pre-interview nerves - I'm terrible and its also the reason I don't have a driving license! xx

Sparkerly

Thanks all for the good wishes. I am really excited and know that I wouldn't have even gone for the job if it hadn't been for this place, and all the good advice I got here really helped I'm sure.

Stephie - I really hoped that good things are round the corner, but desperately trying not to count me chickens over the job just yet. Keep imagining having the phone call offering me the job, but that is getting way ahead of myself.

Rosed wrote: »

Well done! I hope the next interview goes well for you. I would like to suscribe to your diary but need to find out how to do it!

If you look at the top of the thread there is a green bar with a 'thread opitons' tab - click on this and you get the opition to subscribe.

rdchick

We are one of the same! I do exactly that, work out every situation in my head before it's even happened. I work out pay, holidays what I will do on those holidays etc etc

Let us know as soon as you do!!

Xxx

jwil

Good luck with the second interview!

Sparkerly

My niece phoned me yesterday to ask if I had a plastic plate or bowl as she is going camping as part of a course for the scouts and needs to take them with her. As my DD is doing her Duke of Edinburgh award which involves camping I told her we had some and if she wanted to pop round on her way to work she could pick them up. DD got out the bits she had asked for along with cutlery and a mug. When my niece turned up, we starting talking and she showed me the list of things she needed, as I went through it I ask if she had this, that and the other, all of which she needed, so my poor DD went up and down the stairs many times getting all the bits, along with a few other bits I suggested. So she left with 2 bags of things to borrow that my DD has only used once, although she is likely to use it a couple of times again.

Later on it dawned on me how bad my spending habits had been in the past. I would never have thought to ask family and friends to borrow the items for DD's camping trip, in my mind she had to have new and she had to have every little thing she could possibly need. I think I should join the scouts myself as there motto is to be prepared and anyone who has ever venture into my handbag or gone on holiday with me will know that I have things for every eventuality. My OH gets a bit annoyed as I have to put bits in his suitcase when we go away because of all the extra things I take - of course they are never used but you never know. :rotfl:From now on I will try to borrow things first before going out buying.

Yesterday I also set up another interview for the other job I'd been waiting to hear about. There had been a delay of about a week as the person had been away for the weekend and then went down sick, but they are still interested in seeing me and have scheduled it for Friday. So that means I now have 2 interviews on Friday :j Keeping everything crossed that at least one of them want me.

rdchick

Sparkerly wrote: »

Yesterday I also set up another interview for the other job I'd been waiting to hear about. There had been a delay of about a week as the person had been away for the weekend and then went down sick, but they are still interested in seeing me and have scheduled it for Friday. So that means I now have 2 interviews on Friday :j Keeping everything crossed that at least one of them want me.

Wee that's super news!! Gooood luck!! xxxx

Sparkerly

Morning all.

Felling very sleepy this morning after a disrupted night. First a drunk walking past the house chatting loudly at 2.30 woke me up, then the cat was sick at 4.30 - deciding that the best place to be sick was on our bed! So the bed needed changing and as OH was sleeping in the spare room as he is away today on business so had an early start it was all down to me. Then the dustbin men turned up at 6.30 to collect the rubbish which also woke me up as I suddenly paniced that I had forgotten to put it out. Not long after that the alarm goes off and the night has gone. I am not very good without sleep so I feel very sorry for anyone who gets in my way today.

Just hoping I sleep well for my interviews tomorrow. Had another practce with OH last night and he asked some really tricky questions we hadn't talked about before and I managed to answer them, but didn't feel very confident, but he said I had done well and that they were the sort of questions he was asked on his second interviews. The only one I still struggle with is 'tell me about yourself'. i have practiced and practiced it but still tend to ramble on for far too long and give too much minor detail that isn't necessary. So I am going to spend today concentrating on this question and make sure I know all I can about the businesses.

Sparkerly

Just having a minor panic after re-reading the job description for tomorrows 10am interview. It says that I need to have experience of microsoft office suite, in particular access, excel and word. Well I have used word and excel for many years and am good on them, but have never used access.

I need to blag this to make sure that its not a negative, but at the same time I will not lie, so any ideas how I can word it if I am asked specifically about access?