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Question What is making you happy today?

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SonicShrimper said:
Cheers. Had to jiggle a few bits and bobs about to sort it and it does mean three days in town on the trot for the second week running, but that's a jobseeker's life for you.



Would that be normal for the job? Seems a bit excessive...
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Three is probably standard for the industry, I also met them for an informal chat while at a conference last week.
 
Pubey said:
Fourth(!) interview later this week for a job I've applied for.
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I was interviewed by 10 people for my previous bank job.

8 were on the same day and you are shown the door as soon as anyone says no.

Obviously they didn't.
 
Mad Cyril said:
I was interviewed by 10 people for my previous bank job.

8 were on the same day and you are shown the door as soon as anyone says no.

Obviously they didn't.
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My record was 5 interviews with 9 different people, one of which was a teleconference with 2.
 
Napster said:
My record was 5 interviews with 9 different people, one of which was a teleconference with 2.
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An acquaintance of mine (Cambridge maths graduate) told me that he once had about 20 interviews for a job as an interest rates swap trader at the bank I worked at. In the end he told them to sod off. Apparently he was quite rude about it too, pointing out that if they hadn't make their minds up by then they weren't the sort of organisation he would want to work for.

The guy got a job with the Royal Bank of Canada, also as an interest rates swaps trader. The guy is younger than me, and has pretty much already retired because he made so much money. IIRC he actually retired when he was in his late 20's/early 30's, but does now work as a proprietary trader from home, mainly for something to do.

I think he now lives in Switzerland.
 
I was interviewed 3 times for one job, which I got. Planned to leave the first day I started (October). Didn't return after the Christmas break and went back to the railway. Hideous company, stuck in the 70s.
 
Great write up in L'Equipe today.

Wembley s'est leve quand Lassana Diarra est entre en jeu, a la 57e minute. Les Anglais ont applaudi le courage de l'international francais, sur le terrain quatre jours apres la mort de sa cousine, dans les attentats parisiens, vendredi dernier. Ils ont applaudi egalement Antoine Griezmann, dont la soeur a survecu au massacre du Bataclan. Ils ont applaudi tout le monde, et a la fin du match, dans le virage anglais, une fanfare a deux trompettes a joue une Marseillaise joyeuse pendant que les Bleus venaient remercier les supporters venus les accompagner, quatre jours apres avoir ete la cible de trois terroristes, au Stade de France.

Les Anglais etaient les hotes parfaits pour partager une emotion et une humanite a l'instant de rejouer pour ne pas ceder. Du fond du coeur, thank you pour tout.
 
Napster said:
Great write up in L'Equipe today.

Wembley s'est leve quand Lassana Diarra est entre en jeu, a la 57e minute. Les Anglais ont applaudi le courage de l'international francais, sur le terrain quatre jours apres la mort de sa cousine, dans les attentats parisiens, vendredi dernier. Ils ont applaudi egalement Antoine Griezmann, dont la soeur a survecu au massacre du Bataclan. Ils ont applaudi tout le monde, et a la fin du match, dans le virage anglais, une fanfare a deux trompettes a joue une Marseillaise joyeuse pendant que les Bleus venaient remercier les supporters venus les accompagner, quatre jours apres avoir ete la cible de trois terroristes, au Stade de France.

Les Anglais etaient les hotes parfaits pour partager une emotion et une humanite a l'instant de rejouer pour ne pas ceder. Du fond du coeur, thank you pour tout.
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Nice one. It was a privilege to have been there yesterday.
 
Napster said:
I bet. L'equipe is great - it doesn't stray into politics, just reports on the sport and it does it well.
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Used to read it a lot when studying A Level French. Good move by the teacher - needed to encourage a load of 17/18 year old boys to read more French, so bought copies of L'Equipe for the common room. We lapped it up!
 
Uncle Leo said:
Used to read it a lot when studying A Level French. Good move by the teacher - needed to encourage a load of 17/18 year old boys to read more French, so bought copies of L'Equipe for the common room. We lapped it up!
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I studied GCSE French

It was all about Tricolour with its Sandwiches Jambon and Babyfoot.

Formidable.
 
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