Someone May Have Turned the Lights Back On

Given that I’ve recently been applying for jobs left, right and centre without success, I was beginning to think that the light at the end of my job searching tunnel may well have been turned off.

However, right out of the blue, a job agency rang me today to see if I was interested in a job programming in the e-commerce sector. It all sounded interesting, the salary is good, and the guy praised both the company and it’s employees. I almost asked him whether he’d actually called the right number. After all, these sort of things never happen to me.

But as is usually case with me, there was a catch. Never the less, it wasn’t really that unexpected as, if I was interested in the role, I had to do an on-line technical test. They are getting more and more common these days and it’s only to check if you actually know what you're talking about and you’re not actually a burger flipper at McDonalds (no insult intended there for those valuable guys).

So I did the test, and then I surprised myself with the on-line results. Rather oddly, I actually appear to know what I’m taking about. In fact, I appear to know a lot more than I originally thought – although there was one area that I wasn’t too happy with my score. Still, I can’t complain too much as one of my test scores was the highest amongst similar test takers. Blimey.

All I now need to do is wait for a call back from the agency tomorrow to see whether they think it’s worth while forwarding my CV to the prospective company. So fingers crossed, it will be, and toes crossed, if an interview is forthcoming, I don’t go and screw it up!