Friday, February 01, 2008
The job search: Week 3 report
The best word to describe this week would be silence, although I think frustration runs it a close second.
I never did hear about the job in Chicago. That’s fine, as I had a bad enough feeling about the company as employers that I wouldn’t have taken it. My experience at Alliance Capital (now Alliance Bernstein) two years taught me that there can indeed be something worse than no job at all. If a job is horrible enough, you can’t sleep and open yourself up to poor health. No, I had no problem with the chill wind coming from the second city.
But the interview at Deutsche Bank here in New York was really good, and I had anxiously waited for news on the second interview I was recommended for. I hadn’t expected a call the first week, but as this week progressed without a call, I started to get concerned.
I had previously contacted several agents in London. Last night, I loaded my new CV (it’s not called resume over there) onto Jobserve, which at least used to be the best site for IT jobs in the UK. Today, I got a call. Would I be interest in working for DWS in Frankfurt? Sure! I was then told that the hiring manager is in New York, and the hiring manager is a woman by the name of… exactly the same person who interviewed me for Deutsche Bank! Seems that DWS and DB are one and the same!
The woman in London contacted this person and found out that there are “some changes” going on and therefore nobody is being hired. And so I tried yet again to contact the agent over here, but this time telling him what is going on rather than asking. He got back to me a while later. “Not good, but I’m ever the optimist”.
Well, the woman in England seems confident that she can find me something. Then again, a couple of weeks ago, I heard the same thing from someone in Amsterdam, and nothing materialised from that. We shall see. I will speak with her boss on Monday. And I will continue to search. A possible job in San Francisco also materialised then disappeared since my last update. Maybe this time next week, I will be preparing to take a flight to some faraway place…. and maybe not.
I feared this wouldn’t be easy, but hoped that my willingness to travel would make it more likely that I get a job sooner rather than later. There are days when my optimism is challenged. But I will start next week with hope.
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I never did hear about the job in Chicago. That’s fine, as I had a bad enough feeling about the company as employers that I wouldn’t have taken it. My experience at Alliance Capital (now Alliance Bernstein) two years taught me that there can indeed be something worse than no job at all. If a job is horrible enough, you can’t sleep and open yourself up to poor health. No, I had no problem with the chill wind coming from the second city.
But the interview at Deutsche Bank here in New York was really good, and I had anxiously waited for news on the second interview I was recommended for. I hadn’t expected a call the first week, but as this week progressed without a call, I started to get concerned.
I had previously contacted several agents in London. Last night, I loaded my new CV (it’s not called resume over there) onto Jobserve, which at least used to be the best site for IT jobs in the UK. Today, I got a call. Would I be interest in working for DWS in Frankfurt? Sure! I was then told that the hiring manager is in New York, and the hiring manager is a woman by the name of… exactly the same person who interviewed me for Deutsche Bank! Seems that DWS and DB are one and the same!
The woman in London contacted this person and found out that there are “some changes” going on and therefore nobody is being hired. And so I tried yet again to contact the agent over here, but this time telling him what is going on rather than asking. He got back to me a while later. “Not good, but I’m ever the optimist”.
Well, the woman in England seems confident that she can find me something. Then again, a couple of weeks ago, I heard the same thing from someone in Amsterdam, and nothing materialised from that. We shall see. I will speak with her boss on Monday. And I will continue to search. A possible job in San Francisco also materialised then disappeared since my last update. Maybe this time next week, I will be preparing to take a flight to some faraway place…. and maybe not.
I feared this wouldn’t be easy, but hoped that my willingness to travel would make it more likely that I get a job sooner rather than later. There are days when my optimism is challenged. But I will start next week with hope.
