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May 11, 2012

If you know Mystery Science Theater 3000, you might get that reference =) So yeah, anyways, not much to say about today. My Job Coach had a booklet of vacancies on his desk, and after the pleasantry’s he asked me to have a look through them, all of them, with no exceptions had NO information about them …

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April 30, 2012

I intended this post to be just called “I Win”, I was planning it all out in my head during the walk home, I even tweeted about it. Then I got a phone call which this majority of this post will be about. But, lets start at what this appointment was all about – Mandatory …

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Back to Work, Course

April 25, 2012

Today didn’t start well to begin with, £4 underpayment on my JSA, it only got worse. So, I was ‘dragged’ into Avanta today, for “Focused” Job Search aka sit in front of this Computer and look for jobs and write them down. Very focused, its something to get you into the office and keep an …

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April 19, 2012

I got a phone call this morning, from Avanta, reminding me, I have an appointment today at 3pm. That’s the first I heard about it. I made this known and that I’m busy today (right this second, while I’m writing this post, I am fixing my cousins laptop). Advisor asked if it was ok to …

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March 20, 2012

Today’s appointment was… eventful, in a good way, although it started with a *facepalm*, you see, I was booked in for a Mock Interview with my advisor, and he changed his mind so I would have it with someone who is impartial. He lie, he lie! But he gave a very good reason and actually, …

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March 12, 2012

Somehow, I was an hour late for my appointment, my advisor had it down for 2:30, I had it down for 3:30 – Lucky for me, my advisor is canny cool and said to me “its not like you to miss an appointment” so he let it go. But before I got there, he phoned …

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March 9, 2012

So, I just got an email from Northumberland College, the provider of the Employability course I just finished, well, I say an email, I got 2. First email was devoid of any info, except for there address, 2nd email contained my CV, my CV with very minor changes, but changes I noticed right away. Change …

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March 6, 2012

That’s it, done, finished, no more! That’s right folks, this is the last post in the Employability Saga and its been a fun ride, so lets get down to what happened today. First up…. The Mock Interview, with a guy we had never met before, although he did come in like an assistant before we …

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March 5, 2012

WOOOO! 2nd last day of the course is over! Just one more to go! Today, we did 2 things, one useful, one…. not so useful, and even the tutor agreed. So lets split this into 2 parts. Morning – Learning about money This is the pointless booklet we did, oh my was it pointless. It …

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February 29, 2012

Was only a half day today 9:30 to 11:30, or even shorter for me, I screwed up and slept in…. Woke up at 8, rolled back over for 10mins, looked at the clock thinking it was 8:30, turned out it was 9:30. But, my screw up aside, today wasn’t bad, just finishing off the Cover …