*** The official good luck Richard Cranium thread ***

[suityou01]

I'm really going to miss the late night beer reviews if he gets it ...

(when do you start SY01?)

The beer reviews?

[DS23]

Tie, God I hope not - They'll flunk him if he wears a tie. May as well turn up with a bowler hat and brolly.

The last two interviews I've had, wearing no tie, I've been accepted, and the last one I had *with* a tie I flunked.

Next time, if my required skills are borderline, I may try turning up with no trousers.

no way i would turn up not suited and booted. ever.

well maybe not ever.

the agent or interviewer advised me up-front not to.

or if it is on the phone.

[voodooflux]

The beer reviews?

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...-drinking.html

[Zippy]

The beer reviews?

[eliquant]

Yeah good luck Richard, I was out for 1 year back in 2001 after Sep 11th and it sucked and so did those interviewing. Still I bounced back and so will you; you just have to be tenacious and devious.

[OwlHoot]

Its not simply question of which Tie ?

These days an employer looks for a Matching Tie - and Handkerchief.

Ah, well that explains it. As I had no tie *or* hankerchief, they matched vacuously.

[suityou01]

I'm really going to miss the late night beer reviews if he gets it ...

(when do you start SY01?)

Monday.

[RichardCranium]

That's a long time to spend in an interview, non stop, without even a drink of water.

[RichardCranium]

I'm no longer looking for luck - I've realised I'll never work again.

I have thought that in the past. Once I was approaching 40 as a washed-up programmer with no up-to-date skills, no decent references, no degree and no formal qualifications I thought the same.

You may never work again doing the jobs you have done; but why would you want to? There's 1001 different things out there and there might be another one you can do.

Default on the cards next month (serves the banks right for causing this depression).

Impressed? No. I did that and we sold the house somewhere in 2001/2/3. Still paying them off. tulip happens. You don't die unless you kill yourself.

Hand in my cards to the contractors' forum,

Why? Zeity occasionally posts here. Cyberman retired in 1973 and he still posts on here.

perhaps join the Dolescum forum

Can you quote you NI number without thinking? When you can, you'll be entitled. Those of us that've been there can.

(or suicides anonymous forum)

Wo said that?

Having said that, may look into hacking websites - not my skillset, but seems quite interesting. May achieve fame and notoriety that way!

Well, do that then. It is a valid kind of work: white hat security work.

[RichardCranium]

good luck laddy. The bench will be a lot less smelly without you.

Don't you believe it. Bleach won't shift those stains.

cheesed off having applied for jobs I can do in my sleep (to be fair probably 100s on the market who can do the same) and getting no response.

Top Tip: you haven't failed until you've stopped trying. I have made 295 applications to get this first face-to-face interview. And there's nothing actually wrong as such with my CV (too many years experience, no up to date techie skills). That's how tulip it is out there at the moment for PMs.

Good Luck RC!

Yes, I know I'm a bit late and you've already left

It's OK, I felt your presence.

He's probably still deciding what tie he should wear...

The gold one had a curry stain. The silver one doesn't go with the suit. I wore the RN one I obtained and save for formal occasions.

Tie, God I hope not - They'll flunk him if he wears a tie. May as well turn up with a bowler hat and brolly.

It is a PM role for an IT services Co servicing central government; you couldn't be more wrong! A bowler and pin stripes would be spot on. I went for the pin stripes...

These days an employer looks for a Matching Tie - and Handkerchief.

Sure do.

Today, 15:37
Must be out of the interview by now. RC, get your iPhone out and post how you did.

At 97 minutes in, we were only just getting started.

I'm really going to miss the late night beer reviews if he gets it ...

You overestimate me.

Yeah good luck Richard, I was out for 1 year back in 2001 after Sep 11th and it sucked and so did those interviewing. Still I bounced back and so will you; you just have to be tenacious and devious.

What You Said.