Not a happy bunny...

So...there I am, having spent several days preparing for the telephone interview...waiting at 4pm for the phone to ring...and I wait and wait and wait, until finally at 4.15 I call the recruiting office...to find out that the job I was to be interviewed for has already been filled?????!!!!!!??????? To say I was cross would be a serious understatement...not only to find out that the bank's policy is to fill a position as soon as a suitable candidate is interviewed (makes a mockery of the process...application, phone interview, and then being called to a face-to-face interview) which I knew nothing about, but also that they couldn't even be bothered to call me to let me know or indeed even to interview me. Not sure this is a very professional way to operate...am still cross :( but if this is the way the company works I wouldn't want to work for them!

The chap I spoke to suggested I kept an eye on the website for other positions and that they would look forward to my application. I said that I hoped that if I did apply then I'd have to hope that any future position wouldn't be filled before I got to be interviewed!!!

on...and off...

So I get a letter today saying I can't actually sign on for job seekers allowance because I have not paid the relevant NI contributions - bother...so I am now an invisible statistic!! I am still jobless, but no longer registered as unemployed. On the brighter side I have applied for a job with a chemists covering Christmas shifts and a job with a bank...I heard straight away that I had made it overnight to a telephone interview for the banking job - yay! And heard the same day that I had made it through to the next stage for the other job. Telephone interview on Thursday...chemist interview next Monday.

Nope...again

No job :( I was up against 6 others and apparently didn't answer 2 questions "correctly"...oh well...back to applications...

I am a statistic...

After much deliberation I decided enough was enough and I made a phone call to sign on for unemployment benefit yesterday...but after over an hour on the phone I wish I hadn't!! I know it's not meant to be an 'easy' option, but honestly... So now I'm officially a statistic - one of the great unemployed... National statistics state that at the end of August 1.47 million people were claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, with 2.47 million people out of work. Nice to know I'm not on alone...I think...

But then late yesterday afternoon I got an e-mail offering me an interview for a job!!! OK - not a job...yet...but at least it's an interview.

Next week then will have me going to two interviews - 0ne to sign on for benefit, the other to hopefully secure a job to get me off benefit!