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Category: jobs

  • Week 28/52

    Week 28/52

    The big event this week was not work, a conference in Scotland, the tanking of Sterling, or anything else newsworthy. It was the 100th birthday of my grandmother Iris Needs. Over the years I’ve learned that my family is unusual compared to a lot of people in my professional world (it wasn’t and isn’t so…

  • An InterRail Tale

    As I come to the close of trip (albeit one with an extra night in London due to returning on the day of a rail strike) I thought I’d do a little #tripnote It has been a brilliant experience I have to say – though it was hardly a traditional InterRail adventure. For one I…

  • Week 14/52

    I think I might have to take a break from these weeknotes due to the absolute lack of activity I have going on in the upcoming weeks! My big news this week I wrote about on Monday. I’ve ‘accepted’ a job back in the Civil Service and I discussed the reasons in that post. I’m…

  • Getting back in the game…again

    Getting back in the game…again

    The big news this week is that I have accepted a new – permanent – job. Well it is conditional on my security clearance being approved but that shouldn’t be a problem other than the time it takes. This job hunt has been an interesting and somewhat chastising experience for me. The way the UKHSA…

  • Week 13/52

    As I said in an earlier note it has been a long time since I did formal job interviews – until last week my previous panel interview was for mySociety in November 2016 and prior to that ONS in January 2013 (my Defra interview was – let’s call it – semi-formal.) Since those days the…