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My mat leave officially ends this Saturday. After that, we're officially in trouble financially, so I need a job YESTERDAY. I've been going through employment agencies, as I always have, in order to find some kind of executive support position (what I used to do between going to school and teaching).Generally, those pay rather well if you're bilingual and able to translate.
I've been looking for about 3 weeks now and have been to 8 different agencies--all of whom told me I'm a great candidate, blah blah blah, something awesome should come my way soon. That's all well and good but I've got nada so far.
Yesterday, I went to an *Actual* interview at a client's, not at an agency. The client is actually a big accounting firm, and I was lead to believe that they needed an admin assist to do some of the usual admin stuff as well as editing and revising their documents. What I didn't know what that about 75% of the job involves sitting in front of a computer nitpicking at their financial statements to find spelling, grammar, punctuation and other mistakes. :yawning: bored yet? If the interview was any indication, the job is going to be a real snooze (the interview itself lasted over 3 hours, and involved proofreading tests, a Word test, as well as a typing test in both languages and an Excel test...after 3 hours they hadn't even finished all their testing!). I've never left a job interview feeling a) so depressed, b) so exhausted.
The logistics of the job are awesome: great location, easy to get to via public transit, 10 minutes away from DD's daycare, benefits paid from day 1, a lightened summer schedule, a seemingly nice company with lots of community involvement, supposedly a great starting salary (not discussed yet)....but the job itself is not at all what I was hoping for. I need contact with people in order to be happy and this would have me cloistered away for 8 hours a day.
Seeing how scarce jobs seem to be right now, would just you take this job, despite how depressing it sounds?
I've been looking for about 3 weeks now and have been to 8 different agencies--all of whom told me I'm a great candidate, blah blah blah, something awesome should come my way soon. That's all well and good but I've got nada so far.
Yesterday, I went to an *Actual* interview at a client's, not at an agency. The client is actually a big accounting firm, and I was lead to believe that they needed an admin assist to do some of the usual admin stuff as well as editing and revising their documents. What I didn't know what that about 75% of the job involves sitting in front of a computer nitpicking at their financial statements to find spelling, grammar, punctuation and other mistakes. :yawning: bored yet? If the interview was any indication, the job is going to be a real snooze (the interview itself lasted over 3 hours, and involved proofreading tests, a Word test, as well as a typing test in both languages and an Excel test...after 3 hours they hadn't even finished all their testing!). I've never left a job interview feeling a) so depressed, b) so exhausted.
The logistics of the job are awesome: great location, easy to get to via public transit, 10 minutes away from DD's daycare, benefits paid from day 1, a lightened summer schedule, a seemingly nice company with lots of community involvement, supposedly a great starting salary (not discussed yet)....but the job itself is not at all what I was hoping for. I need contact with people in order to be happy and this would have me cloistered away for 8 hours a day.
Seeing how scarce jobs seem to be right now, would just you take this job, despite how depressing it sounds?