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lockstock
20th November 2008, 05:32 PM
Having spent the past 5 months in self-inflicted unemployment I now seem to be heading back to the job market - in principle if nothing else. A lovely job has come up at a local high school and they've just phoned to ask me for interview next Tuesday. I need to have my trackie bottoms and t-shirts surgically removed so I can look the biz. Trouble is, I'm not sure if I can cure my jandal feet in time to squeeze into proper shoes. I don't know, is the suit and trainers look ok?
And I think we went unconditional on the house today subject to the other party's cash-out clause (they have five days to come up with the cash)

benandclare
20th November 2008, 05:35 PM
Crikey it's all go up there :clap:clap

Good luck for Tuesday :nice1

Tia Maria
20th November 2008, 05:51 PM
Wow!

Actually I heard that everyone wore suit and trainers to an interview these days, its also customary to greet the interviewer by throwing a custard pie in their face and making a comment about their mother - honest! :D

Good luck.

Cheers

Tia

pinkpiggy
20th November 2008, 06:03 PM
Fingers crossed Gilly. :D Suit and trainers was what I wore today! Trainers being the only footwear I can get on with this air splint! Nice look.... not. :uhoh

Susan&Dennis
20th November 2008, 06:45 PM
Good luck to you! I hope that you--unlike me--won't have become so USED to unemployment that a job offer seems an imposition on an idyllic lifestyle.....I begin my first NZ teaching job in Dargaville, starting in January. Cheers! Susan

JandM
20th November 2008, 08:19 PM
All the best!:nice1

shakyle2906
20th November 2008, 08:54 PM
Fingers crossed Gilly!

Sharon
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loobie
20th November 2008, 10:31 PM
Good luck, hope it all goes well :)

victoria24
20th November 2008, 10:48 PM
:nice1

peebles16
20th November 2008, 11:06 PM
Good luck Gilly am sure you'll blow them away :)

Karenx

catt
20th November 2008, 11:19 PM
Go for it......trainers or no........just bare feet maybe :nice1

Good luck :clap

andrewp
20th November 2008, 11:42 PM
Good luck!
:cheers

Scotty69
21st November 2008, 02:37 AM
good luck :nice1

vimaino
21st November 2008, 02:41 AM
Yey!

Good luck in there!

Ellie&Ris
21st November 2008, 04:18 PM
... Best of luck..after about 10 interviews at this stage.. my feet are allergic to my high heals.. i usually end up driving home from interviews in my bare feet as i cannot take the pain any longer!

....As for the interview.. i have found interviews here to be so relaxed and casual its a joke!... I had an interview yesterday for an Assistant Accountant position- the accountant interviewing me did not have a clue what to ask me- he asked nothing about my previoius experience and i just don't know how he can possibly pick a candidate without knowing their experience!!!..

Anyways best of luck.. and go barefoot!!!!:bluebanana

lockstock
21st November 2008, 05:01 PM
[QUOTE=Ellie&Ris;263151I had an interview yesterday for an Assistant Accountant position- the accountant interviewing me did not have a clue what to ask me- he asked nothing about my previous experience and i just don't know how he can possibly pick a candidate without knowing their experience!!!..

[/QUOTE]

Did you get the job??? It's all right for you accountanty-type people, you can go barefoot because you need the toes to count on. We teachers have to make sure everything is nailed down out of sight!

M-Squared
21st November 2008, 10:19 PM
Suit & trainers? :D Um... no. ;)

Go on, get spivved up! :nice1

thewoodies
22nd November 2008, 06:00 AM
Good luck with the job - i know how you feel - i am a PE teacher and have to go interviews in proper shoes and business dress - i like it though when they observe my lesson as on goes the track suit and trainers and confidence flows !:laugh

- well has done so far

- must admit im a bit nervous of going back to work ive been off since the end of the school year (july).

Good Luck with job and house :bluebanana:clap

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