I've made the correct decision, I gave notice and did not go back in.
The job they advertised was quite a good role on paper, it was filling a vacant Government job temporarily as their member of staff was unavailable.
The fact it had no PRINCE2 involved (which was the sole reason I took the job as I'm just qualified with a little bit of experience already) really was the nail in the coffin.
Analysing what happened yesterday, basically the job was a management job but the people on the next rung up have taken over the management responsibilities of the post to plug the gap (the project running, the quality controls, etc (with no methodologies - just go do it approach)) and when I went in there, they basically needed an indian who was going to do the 'work' required. In reality on the job spec it should have been me managing and planning the task, and telling the resources what and when to do it.
It had nothing to do with IT, nothing to do with project management (sadly), sure I could have twisted some parts of it on my CV, but ultimately I'm not prepared to either lie about stuff on my CV or try and do a job I have very little knowledge about as it's not my area or my future. I was actually concerned about it going on my CV as it was pulling me so far out my area I think it may have done bad rather than good on there.
The rate began with a £1xx .... it was essentially a temp/agency job (it was essentially the equivalent to a middle management public sector graded perm post), although I did have a business to business contract for it, from the clients perspective I was just 'agency staff' there to plug a gap. I took the low rate purely for what I thought I would gain experience wise which would have made up for it (run a PRINEC2 project from start to finish) and once it was apparent this did not exist and there was no opportunity, my plan B became more important.
The job they advertised was quite a good role on paper, it was filling a vacant Government job temporarily as their member of staff was unavailable.
The fact it had no PRINCE2 involved (which was the sole reason I took the job as I'm just qualified with a little bit of experience already) really was the nail in the coffin.
Analysing what happened yesterday, basically the job was a management job but the people on the next rung up have taken over the management responsibilities of the post to plug the gap (the project running, the quality controls, etc (with no methodologies - just go do it approach)) and when I went in there, they basically needed an indian who was going to do the 'work' required. In reality on the job spec it should have been me managing and planning the task, and telling the resources what and when to do it.
It had nothing to do with IT, nothing to do with project management (sadly), sure I could have twisted some parts of it on my CV, but ultimately I'm not prepared to either lie about stuff on my CV or try and do a job I have very little knowledge about as it's not my area or my future. I was actually concerned about it going on my CV as it was pulling me so far out my area I think it may have done bad rather than good on there.
The rate began with a £1xx .... it was essentially a temp/agency job (it was essentially the equivalent to a middle management public sector graded perm post), although I did have a business to business contract for it, from the clients perspective I was just 'agency staff' there to plug a gap. I took the low rate purely for what I thought I would gain experience wise which would have made up for it (run a PRINEC2 project from start to finish) and once it was apparent this did not exist and there was no opportunity, my plan B became more important.
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