Back to the job application form

The reality of job searching means that it takes precedence over most things, including tv, gardening, bathtimes, sleep, even beer, but not coffee of course. With another job application form in front of me,  it’s time again to get my scrambled brain in gear and read and reread the requirements and ensure all skills and requirements are adequately addressed as I compose another masterpiece of non-fiction. My prize should be getting shortlisted for interview at the end of the month.

This one should be straight forward enough, my work career to date is committed to memory and everything required of me as a candidate I have done in the past, or can do. I just need to get organised.

Should you ever download one similar to this (in excess of 11 pages), don’t panic, take your time, but be careful not to miss the application closing date (Yes, I failed in this recently). Spell checking the final document before submitting is also vitattally improtant, as is making a thermos of coffee beforehand.

Go for it!

About this Blog. (Remastered)

Back Catalogue music is often re-issued and Remastered. A quick glance at the back of the cd case will give this away. Familiar tracks are pretty much the same and appear in pretty much the same running order, but tagged on at the end will be a number of ‘Previously unreleased’ tracks which would suggest tunes were clearly not good enough the first time round. How about ‘Enhanced’? Easy, this means subjected to being fiddled with, ruined by an over excited producer or how about the ‘Extended’ version meaning they forgot to turn it off when they went for a cuppa. But I digress…

Thankfully this Blog is not about music publishing. If you are still unemployed, have recently taken ‘voluntary’ redundancy, or had it thrust upon you, this Bloggy experience might still be of interest to you. If not, never mind. Some contributions originally appeared in 2008, (Fiddled with?) but time moves on and this is now updated regularly. (Enhanced).

The purpose of the blog remains unchanged. I hope it continues to give an insight to what it’s like to be out of work, by way of some of my own real life experiences and cause a smile every now and then.

Even though I have occasionally been tempted to think my working days in the Graphic Design industry are over and I’m a hopeless case, these moments are few and I continue to press on, push doors, kick Recruitment agents, network with others, and complete (then submit) the required tediously long application forms for consideration. At the same time I look for openings where I can use my transferable skills.

Thankfully, that’s not the whole deal, there’s a life to be lived and I am still a husband, a dad, with interests and commitments, so I try to maintain an even keel. I still do my bit around the home, the shopping and whatever… and still get onto the computer at least twice a day to job search, chase applications and get frustrated.

We still as a family are blessed to have a roof over our heads, still eat three meals a day, still have clothes, sound minds (!? Yer alright…) we still have issues to address, I still have notebooks in which to record my observations, I still have a mobile phone and a considerable mortgage. I still support the same football team, and am able still to see the funny side of life and unmeployment (at times). I still get annoyed and angry, I still don’t like Man Utd, rice puding and smarmy politicians, I am however growing in appreciation for Charity Shops, Asda and shopping on e-bay.

I may not presently have Work, but I do have Hope… Guess that’s what this is all about really.

🙂

WorkHope (Mr)