What are we doing at this moment in time?

gwa · Post by **gwa** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:45 am

Looking for a change in work?

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:46 am

gwa wrote:Looking for a change in work?

Yeah, I want more money, and someone contacted me trying to reruit analysts. If things go really well I might be looking at a £10k salary increase. We'll see.

gwa · Post by **gwa** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:49 am

Do it man, 10K more is alot better than whatever you were on ha.

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:50 am

gwa wrote:Do it man, 10K more is alot better than whatever you were on ha.

For sure! Are you having any joy on the employment side of things?

gwa · Post by **gwa** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:07 pm

Errr its baaaaaare complicated. I was meant to go to america for 3 months on the 14th of july, then it got cancled too "problems". So i thought ah I'll get a job and save up for uni. Had that phone interview with First Direct and then went through a glum patch. Went to an agency, applied for a few more places...now looking towards admin work. Then I get a phone call last saturday saying, "COME BACK TO AMERICA, WE WILL CHANGE YOUR FLIGHTS" and I'm aparently going on the 11th till 16th of october. So no need for a job atm heh. I'll be looking when i get back though. Whats this 10k wage rise job then?

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:10 pm

gwa wrote:Whats this 10k wage rise job then?

Good news about the US mate, nice one. I work as a fraud risk analyst, but the move will be to the credit risk analysis department of another bank. I use various computer systems to look for patterns in behaviour, and try to identify areas where savings can be made thorugh reducing bad debt or fraud losses. It really is about as fun as it sounds.

gwa · Post by **gwa** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:12 pm

Im happy, just waiting for flights to come through. Plus my flight stops at the dam first! Ha imagen whilst i was waiting for my flights i sneaked out for a jamba that would be amazing. Well its not exactly a basic job, how did you go down that route of career?

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:16 pm

gwa wrote:Im happy, just waiting for flights to come through. Plus my flight stops at the dam first! Ha imagen whilst i was waiting for my flights i sneaked out for a jamba that would be amazing. Well its not exactly a basic job, how did you go down that route of career?

lol yeah man that'd be sweet. Not sure how I ended up doing this really. I finished my degree in zoology at Leeds, then came to the call centre here as a 'filler' job, lol. I was there for 18 months then applied internally to get to a separate part of the business in analysis, just to give it a go really (and it was for more money). 18 months further down the line, here I am!!!

gwa · Post by **gwa** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:27 pm

What is your current wage if you dont mind me asking? Would you still be working at FD? But thats sick man, UNI is abit of a shambles at times, do you not want to go into zoology at all then?

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:40 pm

gwa wrote:What is your current wage if you dont mind me asking? Would you still be working at FD? But thats sick man, UNI is abit of a shambles at times, do you not want to go into zoology at all then?

It's about £23k, something like that, at the moment. If I get this job, then I'll be leaving FD, which is a bit of a shame cos in the main, it is a very good place to work. I'd like to get into some zoological in the future, but for now I want to make that money.

ashley · Post by **ashley** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:57 pm

kins83 wrote:
gwa wrote:What is your current wage if you dont mind me asking? Would you still be working at FD? But thats sick man, UNI is abit of a shambles at times, do you not want to go into zoology at all then?
It's about £23k, something like that, at the moment. If I get this job, then I'll be leaving FD, which is a bit of a shame cos in the main, it is a very good place to work. I'd like to get into some zoological in the future, but for now I want to make that money.

How old are you? 23? 24? 25?

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:59 pm

I'm 25.

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:09 pm

Good luck Kins, massive pay rise = win, loving my new job at the mo.

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:11 pm

LEQ wrote:Good luck Kins, massive pay rise = win, loving my new job at the mo.

Cheers! Yeah, seeing as it represents such a large chunk of your life, it's all about finding a job that you don't hate! Sounds like you're one of the lucky ones!

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:53 pm

congrats LEQ & Kins!!

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:58 pm

deamonds wrote:congrats LEQ & Kins!!

Cheers dude. Just made it to the to the telephone interview stage now. Scary.

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:05 pm

Ta very much Deams

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:47 pm

@ kins, i never see the point of telephone int. other than if there is loads of people applying for the job, seems pretty impersonal to me...

im eating some baked potatoes cheese n beans b4 i go n get sum bud..

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:49 pm

deamonds wrote:@ kins, i never see the point of telephone int. other than if there is loads of people applying for the job, seems pretty impersonal to me...

im eating some baked potatoes cheese n beans b4 i go n get sum bud..

Yeah it's a bit of a wierd one. I can understand it for a call centre job, but aside from that, it seems like an unnecessary step between applying and final interview. Let's just hope I don't fuck it up.

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:50 pm

so what do you do, just like, phone up at a set time and answer the questions ?

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