So I am in the midst of getting a new job within the place I'm working at, I am probably jinxing the whole deal by blogging about it but whatev. I'm moving out of the 'online' area and moving right into a job that has more to do with what I studied at uni, and less to do with what I already know IT wise. It is a scary move, purely because I've never done a job like this before, well in this area, a job is a job, this isn't strictly technical or requires a lot of specialist skills, but knowing what I know and having studying this stuff at uni means I should be able to pick it all up pretty quickly.
Everything is still up in the air, I'm waiting for a 'formal offer' which our internal recruiter that I'm dealing with is 100% coming, the annoying thing about this all is that it is work protocol to have to tell your boss that you have another role lined up before you actually have the job. On top of that you have to find out when you can leave, which is always ASAP in the other people's minds. So I've been having difficult conversations with my bosses the last 2 days trying to tell them that yes, I am actually keen to go, no it isn't their fault, no there is nothing you can do to make me stay (unless you give me a TON of cash or something very interesting to work on, but that just doesn't happen in the area I'm in at the moment) and yes, it is really what I want. This is all a hard act to swallow when I'm not actually sure if this is really going to be for me, I've never done it before, so how can I possibly know?
Anyway my boss(es) are taking their sweet time to give me a date for when I can leave, which sucks cause it means I can't get my offer until they do, hell I might not even take it if there is something in it that is serverely disadvantaging, its driving me crazy! I just want to have it all over and done with.
Applying for this job was a bit of a pain in the arse too, it sort of found me through a work friend of mine that works in that general area, I went and had a coffee with the people just to suss it out, it seemed interesting, but I was unsure I wanted to take the plunge and I can assure you I came off looking like I didn't know what I wanted too. So I left that and organised to talk to some more people in that area that do a similar job to what I'll be doing, they sort of sold me on it a bit more, then I was strongly urged to apply by the recruiter who was being a proxy for one of the first ladies I met, anyway, after slacking off on doing that I get it inm they immediately set up an interview time, I do a STAR behavourial type interview with some other people, I was stressing hard about it, but because of all my grad interview experiences that do all that same sort of stuff, I did well, it just sort of comes automatically for me now, I can just turn it on at those type of interviews, probably the best lesson I learnt from doing all that grad stuff!
Anyway, then I had to do a second interview with the head honcho and the other senior woman who i happen to meet way back in the second interview, it was pretty much "get to know me" interview, with a few curly questions, no biggie, still stressy though. And now I am here.
Ok time to end this rambly crap cause the last two weeks have just tired the hell out of me!
I need to blog moar.
Everything is still up in the air, I'm waiting for a 'formal offer' which our internal recruiter that I'm dealing with is 100% coming, the annoying thing about this all is that it is work protocol to have to tell your boss that you have another role lined up before you actually have the job. On top of that you have to find out when you can leave, which is always ASAP in the other people's minds. So I've been having difficult conversations with my bosses the last 2 days trying to tell them that yes, I am actually keen to go, no it isn't their fault, no there is nothing you can do to make me stay (unless you give me a TON of cash or something very interesting to work on, but that just doesn't happen in the area I'm in at the moment) and yes, it is really what I want. This is all a hard act to swallow when I'm not actually sure if this is really going to be for me, I've never done it before, so how can I possibly know?
Anyway my boss(es) are taking their sweet time to give me a date for when I can leave, which sucks cause it means I can't get my offer until they do, hell I might not even take it if there is something in it that is serverely disadvantaging, its driving me crazy! I just want to have it all over and done with.
Applying for this job was a bit of a pain in the arse too, it sort of found me through a work friend of mine that works in that general area, I went and had a coffee with the people just to suss it out, it seemed interesting, but I was unsure I wanted to take the plunge and I can assure you I came off looking like I didn't know what I wanted too. So I left that and organised to talk to some more people in that area that do a similar job to what I'll be doing, they sort of sold me on it a bit more, then I was strongly urged to apply by the recruiter who was being a proxy for one of the first ladies I met, anyway, after slacking off on doing that I get it inm they immediately set up an interview time, I do a STAR behavourial type interview with some other people, I was stressing hard about it, but because of all my grad interview experiences that do all that same sort of stuff, I did well, it just sort of comes automatically for me now, I can just turn it on at those type of interviews, probably the best lesson I learnt from doing all that grad stuff!
Anyway, then I had to do a second interview with the head honcho and the other senior woman who i happen to meet way back in the second interview, it was pretty much "get to know me" interview, with a few curly questions, no biggie, still stressy though. And now I am here.
Ok time to end this rambly crap cause the last two weeks have just tired the hell out of me!
I need to blog moar.
posted by serp at 9:06 PM
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