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Title: Eep.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 20, 2005, 02:42:50 pm

I have a stressful week up ahead.... aptitude test tomorrow, and then a 4 hour long test+10 min presentation+interview+'personality questionaire' for another job.  And then a driving test the Friday after.

So don't be surprised if I explode with all the stress (or, as is more likely, get a bit narky).

:sigh:

Title: Eep.
Post by: vyper on July 20, 2005, 02:54:09 pm

All that for one job?

Title: Eep.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 20, 2005, 02:59:30 pm

Nope, 2.  One of which I don't even want.

EDIT; if someone can give me a good way to 'conclude' a 10 min presentation on Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering, I'm all ears.

Title: Re: Eep.
Post by: Nico on July 20, 2005, 03:09:02 pm

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Originally posted by aldo_14
'personality questionaire'

questionnaire
Some day, I will have to make a list of all the french words english people use "tel quel"

Title: Eep.
Post by: vyper on July 20, 2005, 03:11:53 pm

My mates are going nuts right now trying to find anyone willing to take on Comp Sci grads who have no industrial experience. Any ideas mate?

Title: Eep.
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 20, 2005, 03:16:13 pm

Well, there's the job Inqui was offering.

Title: Re: Re: Eep.
Post by: Solatar on July 20, 2005, 03:17:36 pm

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Originally posted by Nico


questionnaire
Some day, I will have to make a list of all the french words english people use "tel quel"

I think it's something like 40% comes from French, although that might just be ones for which they share roots or it might be counting cognates (not the exact word).

Title: Eep.
Post by: BlackDove on July 20, 2005, 03:19:01 pm

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Originally posted by aldo_14
if someone can give me a good way to 'conclude' a 10 min presentation on Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering, I'm all ears.

"...if you have any questions, you can keep them to yourself, I'm going home for some earned rest and you get paid too much for doing nothing anyway."

How's that?

Title: Eep.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 20, 2005, 03:31:58 pm

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Originally posted by vyper
My mates are going nuts right now trying to find anyone willing to take on Comp Sci grads who have no industrial experience. Any ideas mate?

http://careers.amazondc.com/index.html

This is the one with the pain-in-the-arse recruitment process I mentioned.

The rest of the stuff I've applied for has been via recruitment agencies; Elan IT, abrecco, etc (I tend to get 'offered' them by these lot in the sense of applying; mostly they're ****e or in London).

Um... try http://www.idoxplc.com/iii/index.htm (http://www.str.prospects.ac.uk/casa/servlet/casa.jobseeker.JSVacServlet?mode=showVac&CASA_object_id=SUBOSTR-08072005-VACY-17173&search_level=A&vacancy_class=G&any_subject_f=Y&frmToWcodes=AGC-M:UCS-M&frmToWcodes=AGC-V:UCS-V&frmToWcodes=AGC-W:UCS-W&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT1&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT2&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT3&employer_name_contains=&ticket=4602F7E8-9BAF-4CFC-AEAC-1377F466E422&from=1&total=20&curr_pos=1&last_pos=20 if you can reggy), mclaren (http://www.mclarensoftware.com/ / http://www.str.prospects.ac.uk/casa/servlet/casa.jobseeker.JSVacServlet?mode=showVac&CASA_object_id=SUBOSTR-13062005-VACY-16869&search_level=A&vacancy_class=G&any_subject_f=Y&frmToWcodes=AGC-M:UCS-M&frmToWcodes=AGC-V:UCS-V&frmToWcodes=AGC-W:UCS-W&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT1&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT2&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT3&employer_name_contains=&ticket=4602F7E8-9BAF-4CFC-AEAC-1377F466E422&from=1&total=20&curr_pos=17&last_pos=20), or marconi (http://www.str.prospects.ac.uk/casa/servlet/casa.jobseeker.JSVacServlet?mode=showVac&CASA_object_id=SUBOSTR-17062005-VACY-16953&search_level=A&vacancy_class=G&any_subject_f=Y&frmToWcodes=AGC-M:UCS-M&frmToWcodes=AGC-V:UCS-V&frmToWcodes=AGC-W:UCS-W&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT1&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT2&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT3&employer_name_contains=&ticket=4602F7E8-9BAF-4CFC-AEAC-1377F466E422&from=1&total=20&curr_pos=14&last_pos=20)

You could also have a stab at vianet; http://www.vianet.co.uk/ I had a couple of interviews there but pulled out because it was too far away (Dunfermline) to commute.  There's a very slim chance they'd have something.

Title: Re: Re: Eep.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 20, 2005, 03:33:05 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Nico


questionnaire
Some day, I will have to make a list of all the french words english people use "tel quel"

And some day i may even give a ****.

Today is not that day.

Title: Eep.
Post by: Flipside on July 20, 2005, 03:39:03 pm

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EDIT; if someone can give me a good way to 'conclude' a 10 min presentation on Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering, I'm all ears. [/B]

- 'And the monkey said, "Take what you want, he's blind anyway!"'

;)

Title: Eep.
Post by: Rictor on July 20, 2005, 03:39:50 pm

I've just worked my first, and hopefully close to my last, four days in a factory. Damnit, it's robot work; hard and boring.

Title: Eep.
Post by: redsniper on July 20, 2005, 04:03:13 pm

maybe you are a robot programmed not to know that you're a robot.

Title: Eep.
Post by: Clave on July 20, 2005, 05:27:24 pm

I think I have stress - my neck is stiff and the pain spreads round into my face, jaw and teeth several times each day....I have been virtually living on Ibuprufen for the last month, the doctor said I need physiotherapy, but the waiting time is so long that the problem would have have gone away by the time I got an appointment - which doesn't ****ing well help me much right now, does it!?!

My assistant CAD operator just pissed off to America for ever, just in the middle of the biggest contract we have ever handled, and I have to start training a new temporary guy on Monday.

Stuff makes me angry..

Just, anything, the printer not working, slow drivers on the way into work, the weather, anything...

OK, my headache is coming back now, I'm out of here...

Title: Eep.
Post by: vyper on July 20, 2005, 05:35:39 pm

Quote

Originally posted by aldo_14


http://careers.amazondc.com/index.html

This is the one with the pain-in-the-arse recruitment process I mentioned.

The rest of the stuff I've applied for has been via recruitment agencies; Elan IT, abrecco, etc (I tend to get 'offered' them by these lot in the sense of applying; mostly they're ****e or in London).

Um... try http://www.idoxplc.com/iii/index.htm (http://www.str.prospects.ac.uk/casa/servlet/casa.jobseeker.JSVacServlet?mode=showVac&CASA_object_id=SUBOSTR-08072005-VACY-17173&search_level=A&vacancy_class=G&any_subject_f=Y&frmToWcodes=AGC-M:UCS-M&frmToWcodes=AGC-V:UCS-V&frmToWcodes=AGC-W:UCS-W&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT1&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT2&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT3&employer_name_contains=&ticket=4602F7E8-9BAF-4CFC-AEAC-1377F466E422&from=1&total=20&curr_pos=1&last_pos=20 if you can reggy), mclaren (http://www.mclarensoftware.com/ / http://www.str.prospects.ac.uk/casa/servlet/casa.jobseeker.JSVacServlet?mode=showVac&CASA_object_id=SUBOSTR-13062005-VACY-16869&search_level=A&vacancy_class=G&any_subject_f=Y&frmToWcodes=AGC-M:UCS-M&frmToWcodes=AGC-V:UCS-V&frmToWcodes=AGC-W:UCS-W&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT1&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT2&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT3&employer_name_contains=&ticket=4602F7E8-9BAF-4CFC-AEAC-1377F466E422&from=1&total=20&curr_pos=17&last_pos=20), or marconi (http://www.str.prospects.ac.uk/casa/servlet/casa.jobseeker.JSVacServlet?mode=showVac&CASA_object_id=SUBOSTR-17062005-VACY-16953&search_level=A&vacancy_class=G&any_subject_f=Y&frmToWcodes=AGC-M:UCS-M&frmToWcodes=AGC-V:UCS-V&frmToWcodes=AGC-W:UCS-W&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT1&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT2&frmLocsSelCodes=SCOT3&employer_name_contains=&ticket=4602F7E8-9BAF-4CFC-AEAC-1377F466E422&from=1&total=20&curr_pos=14&last_pos=20)

You could also have a stab at vianet; http://www.vianet.co.uk/ I had a couple of interviews there but pulled out because it was too far away (Dunfermline) to commute.  There's a very slim chance they'd have something.

Ta, I'll pass those links on. :)

And they wonder why I work for myself. ;)

Title: Eep.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 20, 2005, 05:42:29 pm

www.jobsite.co.uk seems to be a good place to pop your CV on, as well.

I worked for myself from July-this April.  I got a bit sick of it, though; it's hard to be entirely happy working on your own (most of the time) and on short (~15 week) contracts.

Title: Re: Re: Re: Eep.
Post by: Nico on July 21, 2005, 05:14:19 pm

Quote

Originally posted by aldo_14


And some day i may even give a ****.

Today is not that day.

Sorry if my life is not so exciting that it's not as worthy to be shared on the net as yours :p

Title: Eep.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 21, 2005, 05:20:06 pm

You'll just have to try harder.

Title: Eep.
Post by: Black Wolf on July 21, 2005, 05:27:14 pm

Quote

Originally posted by aldo_14
Nope, 2.  One of which I don't even want.

EDIT; if someone can give me a good way to 'conclude' a 10 min presentation on Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering, I'm all ears.

And that concludes my presentation. Now, hire me or I kill your children.

Title: Eep.
Post by: pyro-manic on July 21, 2005, 05:29:36 pm

Hope it all goes well, aldo. :)

Title: Eep.
Post by: Nico on July 21, 2005, 05:32:11 pm

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Originally posted by aldo_14
You'll just have to try harder.

Sure thing, next time I have a stressful moment in my life, I'll share with everybody :p

Title: Eep.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 21, 2005, 05:39:57 pm

Feel free.

(haven't you *****ed about finding gainful employment on here before, anyways? :p)

Title: Eep.
Post by: Nico on July 21, 2005, 05:47:15 pm

Me? I wouldn't say no since I can't remember (tho I doubt it, don't remember me talking about the great joy of working in hotels or factories), but at least I surely didn't get rude to you for no reason if I actually posted about it ;)

Title: Re: Eep.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 21, 2005, 05:51:44 pm

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Originally posted by aldo_14


So don't be surprised if I explode with all the stress (or, as is more likely, get a bit narky).
 

I did warn :)

(it's 12pm and I'm studying up on videos I'll be asked about in an interview......)

Title: Eep.
Post by: vyper on July 21, 2005, 05:57:18 pm

Actually that's 12am.

Title: Eep.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 21, 2005, 06:05:31 pm

Probably it's actually 0am, but who's counting?

Title: Eep.
Post by: vyper on July 21, 2005, 06:06:24 pm

The clock on my system tray... says 0006. :p

Title: Eep.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 22, 2005, 02:43:52 pm

Crikey, what a day that was......  thought I'd ****ed up the test, but I didn't.  As for the rest....who knows?

Title: Eep.
Post by: ZylonBane on July 22, 2005, 02:46:59 pm

This thread has absolutely nothing to do with Babylon 5.

I hereby confiscate aldo's sci-fi license for misuse of the holy "eep".

Title: Eep.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 22, 2005, 04:00:58 pm

:wtf: ?

Title: Eep.
Post by: aldo_14 on July 29, 2005, 10:51:45 am

woot.  Passed the test, onto next round of the Amazon thing.