What's Up?

So the big news of the past week was probably the fact that i finally landed a job. I know my small group of loyal blog followers (i.e those bored at work) will already know this but i thought i should write this down in my blog. It took me 8 weeks and 60 odd job applications to finally land a Resourcing Assistant position at Tesco Personal Finance. It is a big step back in my career and not to mention my pay, but it's a great company and one with lots of opportunity. Plus, my decision to move here and work was more about finding a job that would earn me enough to live off, not necessarily a job that built on my existing experience. It should be quite a cruisy job in a way too, as i know the work inside out. It'll have it's frustrations (which i know my ex colleagues will be familar with!), because i DO know the work inside out but i guess i am so thankful for a job i dont care as much. I just hope i meet some interesting people once i start work. They said at the interview that it is likely to go longer than 3 months which is what the inital contract is, so fingers crossed it does. I will be assisting with the placement of 800 new jobs into Glasgow over the following months, and i dont think that'll happen in 3 months, no matter how good the company is at recruiting. The offices are based next to Haymarket train station so they should be only an hour door to door on a bus max to get there. The traffic is what will make it the hour. During the day it would probably take about 20 minutes. With the new tram system going in Leith Walk and London Rd get pretty congested and i need to take those roads to get from my flat to work.

It's not all that surprising that i ended up getting a job with the only agency that actually called me after i sent out an email to agemcy prior to leaving Australia. I sent out about 6 emails to agencies and Michael Page was the only agency that replied and actually called me at home to arrange an interview for when i got to Edinburgh. So i knew i would be on to a good thing with them. So if you ever come over here go for them as a start. DONT go for Office Angels, they are total liars. I will be sending them a rather rude email when i leave for home.

I've come here looking for work at a really bad time (which i knew!) but by the looks of what's being written up in the paper, it will only get worse for immigrants, so i am happy i'm settled into something before it does. I read this week that the Immigration Advisory Board is going to make British companies advertise roles for 4 months before considering people from O.S. I'm sure this is for more hard to fill jobs, but that wouldn't have been great for me if that was introduced prior to me coming here. It's nice to see on the news also that Australia's job market is slowly on the rise and that job ads were up last month. I hope that by the time i came home next year (perhaps?) i wont have the difficulty i have had here getting work.

PS - THANK YOU Dom & Monzie for being my referees :)