Reply to: Activitiy which may lead to Boom for me!

[Liability]

Have no idea how it can help or determine - probably HR driven drivel!

Had my 2nd interview last night - should know today or tomorrow if the gig is mine. Pretty confident.....[he says]. 12 monther as well - so would be right up my street.

[tim123]

Hmm not sure could be - Id assume as its a potential long term Project they want the right people? .

And just how will a silly test tell them this?

tim

[norrahe]

i've never really liked those tests.

a lot of the time the answers they ask you to tick are nowhere near where you would normally answer in the situations provided in the test.

[Liability]

They will be wanting to slot you somewhere in here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belbin_Team_Inventory. It will pretty much give them an idea of the type of work character you are, and whether it will fit with a team or organisation.. interesting they are doing this on you as a contractor though, I wonder if the results can be different depending on whether you do the test with a contractor hat on, or with an employee hat on.. if you see what I mean?

Good luck anyway! I've got a big week this week too, 2 interviews lined up.. fingers crossed.

Hmm not sure could be - Id assume as its a potential long term Project they want the right people? Who knows! I just did two of them online which were 25 mins each - the 1.5 hour one is left and that's it. Very odd in deed.

[chris79]

Ok - got my second interview coming week - but get this! Have to sit a 1.5 hour Psychometric test. Never done one before - whilst I can appreciate the contract is 9 months+ this is the first time Im having to do these. Anyway - all good for a laugh.

They will be wanting to slot you somewhere in here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belbin_Team_Inventory. It will pretty much give them an idea of the type of work character you are, and whether it will fit with a team or organisation.. interesting they are doing this on you as a contractor though, I wonder if the results can be different depending on whether you do the test with a contractor hat on, or with an employee hat on.. if you see what I mean?

Good luck anyway! I've got a big week this week too, 2 interviews lined up.. fingers crossed.

[Liability]

Ok - got my second interview coming week - but get this! Have to sit a 1.5 hour Psychometric test. Never done one before - whilst I can appreciate the contract is 9 months+ this is the first time Im having to do these. Anyway - all good for a laugh.

[VladimirPutin]

Architecture space???

Architecture space

I thought it was something to building site

[portseven]

Which, those of us who speak English & not "bullsh*t bingo" language means exactly what?

It means he strokes his beard alot

[Liability]

Had first of 2 interviews today - went really well - got feedback within the hour and through to second interview with CIO on Tuesday morning.

Looking good though from the feedback I got....so all well so far!

[tim123]

than they probably arent architects maybe? Its pretty broad.

The point is that seem to "work in Infrastructure"

And they don't.

Not all things that need architecting (does that word exist?) are physical entities.

tim

[moorfield]

I had one interview last night and another one tonight.

That's quick work BP - good stuff.

[moorfield]

Which, those of us who speak English & not "bullsh*t bingo" language means exactly what?

I think it's plonking boxes and arrows on a Visio page. Maybe some dotted lines too. Maybe stretching to a little bit of Powerpoint (only three bullets per page though mind).

[Liability]

Which negates what you said earlier.

I know people in "the Architecture space" and they don't have any of those skills.

tim

than they probably arent architects maybe? Its pretty broad.

[NotAllThere]

if you dont know what it means - you aren't at the level at which you need to know.

Move along.

Which in translation means "If I told you, I'd have to use apostrophes, and that key is broken on my keyboard".

[tim123]

I come from a Solutions / Infrastructure background - so anything under Wintel [inclusive of storage, networks, consolidation, virtualisation, Server based computing, messaging, Oracle, SAP and similar] so pretty broad.

Which negates what you said earlier.

I know people in "the Architecture space" and they don't have any of those skills.

tim