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I found out, when I went in to work on Tuesday, that all of those being made redundant were being offered gardening leave to conduct their job hunting. I accepted and I've been at home all this week. I've made a few applications.
I made a discovery at the start of my job search: the monster site doesn't work on Apple Macs. It does, however, work on Windows so I applied for a couple of jobs via that site last night.
I'm now going to create some Excel spreadsheets and put those scripts I wrote into them. I bought a laptop this week to help me with applications. The main reason being that I could create spreadsheets with my VBA scripts (aka macros) and show them in action to employment agencies and, if permitted, employers (at interview). Next week I'll go around the employment agencies.
There are other reasons as well. Some employers have their application forms in Word format. Using a Windows machine (my mac has trouble reading tables in Word documents and application forms usually have a lot of tables in them) I can do that instead of having to write the form out long hand (my typing is a lot faster than my writing).
I apologise for not sticking around today to join in with the discussions.
I made a discovery at the start of my job search: the monster site doesn't work on Apple Macs. It does, however, work on Windows so I applied for a couple of jobs via that site last night.
I'm now going to create some Excel spreadsheets and put those scripts I wrote into them. I bought a laptop this week to help me with applications. The main reason being that I could create spreadsheets with my VBA scripts (aka macros) and show them in action to employment agencies and, if permitted, employers (at interview). Next week I'll go around the employment agencies.
There are other reasons as well. Some employers have their application forms in Word format. Using a Windows machine (my mac has trouble reading tables in Word documents and application forms usually have a lot of tables in them) I can do that instead of having to write the form out long hand (my typing is a lot faster than my writing).
I apologise for not sticking around today to join in with the discussions.
Tags: agency, apple, application, e-mail, employment, form, gardening, hunting, job, laptop
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Comment by Sar-fitb on June 22, 2009 at 8:04am - Good luck with the job hunting!
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Comment by Francisco on July 8, 2009 at 8:08am - Thank you.
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