Not All Of My E-mails Are SPAM

I actually had some good news via e-mail last week. It wasn’t hundreds of messages from ladies desperate to meet me, an amazing herbal remedy to fix my size worries (I didn’t know I had one – I may have now though) nor a hot tip for some none existent company with a share price about to sky rocket.

Nope, I’ve actually had an invite for a job interview that actually sounds interesting. However, it’s a "foot in the door" interview to be done by phone and only if they’re interested will it progress to a proper interview. I guess this approach is to weed out the people with personalities like wet fish or a telephone manner more suited to the speaking clock.

Working in IT, and computer software in particular, there is this stereotypical view that we’re all geeks, spotty, boring and like nothing more that watching Star Trek. Unfortunately, there are indeed people like this (and I have worked with one or two of them) but on the whole we’re all fun and interesting guys (some are even married!). Perhaps this is one of the sticking points in my profile and "Software Engineer" brings up images of The IT Crowd. Is there any way to "sex" this up without having to invade another country?

Finally, I’ve decided to add a weekly report of my (lack of) progress on Match.com. So far the new pictures have stirred some sort of interest, but other than that there’s not much else to report. Ho-hum.

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