Yet another interview

It seems that I've successfully jumped all the hoops so far, and so Thursday week will see my first face to face interview. It's starting to get serious, now.

This one will be in Sydney, but if I get past this hurdle, the next one could be really "onsite"! That would be exciting in itself, even if I didn't get the position, but I would have to think that if they were willing to fund travel and accommodation to the tune of several thousand dollars, that they were pretty keen, and that I would really have to fuck up from that point on not to get it.

That's my rationale for thinking that this coming interview will be the last real hoop to jump. It's been a long process, and a bit draining, mostly on account of the waiting. It's been over two months since they first contacted me; and I would expect the whole process to take at least another month, if it goes to completion.

So that's where that's at.

This post brought to you at Autumnheart's urging :)

New: Comment Feed

Well, I've finally figured out how to add comment feeds for all you guys' blogs to Google Reader. I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to find the address, so I'm not going to own up to that.

For your convenience, I've added a link my comments feed in the sidebar, just to the left of this post. For those of you reading via a news reader, here's a link.

I added it manually, as the tantalising <$BlogFeedsVertical$> macro didn't quite do what they said it would, so it might break if the address changes.

Happy reading!

Well, I'll be googled

I just googled myself, and got 15 pages of results, including supplmentals. And, God help me, they're all me.

I am, in fact, all over the internet.

*shudder*

To Interview!

We finally managed to get the interview done.

Autumnheart pointed out this article to me yesterday, which almost had me withdrawing my application in light of the embarrassment that was about to befall me. However, I stuck it out, and actually found this interview easier than the first one. It helps that I had a bit of an idea of what to expect.

In reference to the "intractable brain teasers" mentioned in the article, I would have to say that I haven't seen any of them yet. You wouldn't be able to answer the questions if you didn't know what you were talking about, but I'd hardly call them intractable.

In any case, it's not over yet, I would say.

One of the really great things about the new Blogger is RSS feeds for comments. I'll be adding comments feeds to my reader for all the usual suspects, so I'll be better able to track your comments.

If you guys all do the same, you'll see when I reply to one of your comments, without having to look down the list of posts and say "hmm, I think there were only 4 comments last time, and now there's 5. I wonder if he's replied to something I said. Better check."

You get the idea.

To Interview, or not to Interview

Naughtily, I'm writing this blog entry from work. But since it's Saturday, I don't feel too guilty about it. Actually, I'm not here for work purposes, but waiting for a phone interview. It's 20 minutes past the hour, and there's been no call yet. The last time this interview was scheduled, there was no call either. And the one before that, which did eventually happen, at least, had a false start as well. I'm starting to get a complex about this.

There're any number of things that could have gone wrong. Our phone system is down this morning, and although it was supposed to be back up again at 9:30, half an hour before my interview, it still isn't working. But I did warn the recruitment coordinator that that might happen, and she made a note of my mobile number in case the interviewer couldn't get through.

Or we could have had another scheduling issue. It's hard, organising an phone conversation between two people in different time zones, when neither of those times zones are the one that you're in.

Or it could be that the interviewer isn't in the time zone that we thought, and s/he'll call just as soon as I give up and walk out the door. Assuming that the interviewer isn't in Hawaii, I should be right to give up on it in about an hour and a half.

So here I am, seemingly in the middle of a second failed attempt at a second interview.

I really am starting to get a complex about this.