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Interviews!

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This is proving to be very odd…

Last week I sent off several job application forms to various schools that sounded half interesting.

I have an interview on Tuesday, and have just been rung up – about five minutes ago, by another school wanting to interview me a week on Monday.

Not only is it quite odd being called on a Sunday evening, but it was the assistant head teacher, and not some random office minion. The mind boggles…

Let’s see how it goes :)

Now, the really weird part of applying for a teaching job is that they ask you, there an then on the day whether you want the job or not. You can’t go home and give it a few days, they just flat out ask “Do you want this job?”.

Well it’s nice to know that if anything I have the ability to write an interesting looking application letter :)

Interview Results

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I’ve received some forms and things from Huddersfield Uni. I had to fill out a health form to say I wasn’t ill or insane and then post it back to them.

Once that’s done they should hopefully send me a letter confirming I have a place on their course.

Fun :-)

The shop is very boring and quiet. I painted white lines on the stairs this week. Watching the paint dry was the most excitement I had all week.

Interview

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I went to my interview. It wasn’t that bad. We were given a shedload of paperwork to fill in to keep us busy while they performed group interviews and personal ones.

The group one consisted of standing in front of a small group of other potential candidates and explaining what you thought the qualities were that a good teacher had. The personal interview was quite in-depth, with the person who would be my tutor examining and questioning random things from my application.

He said I’d be well suited to being a teacher, but the decision isn’t entirely his to make so I now have to wait for official confirmation.

Prior to the interview I went to my dad’s school to see what it was like. It was pretty much how I remember school being, only newer technology and more interesting things to teach them. I was also shown around the various server rooms by the main IT technician, which was fun :)

An interview

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Huddersfield Uni want to interview me for the teacher training course they’re running next year. The interview will last all morning and consist of a private interview, a group one and some written tasks. I bet it won’t be as interesting as the interview for Newlands, it doesn’t seem to be a requirement that trainee teachers can jump into cold water. I’ll have to wake my brain up from where ever it’s been hiding for the past three years. Need to get some clothes too.

Score!

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Went for an interview at Cotswold on Thursday. It seemed a rather short interview, being more of a twenty minute chat than anything involved. They said they’d give me a call early this week to let me know the outcome.

After doing some equipment checks this morning, I came to my small green shed and found a voicemail. It was one of the people who’d interviewed me asking to phone back. This is one of those silly situations where the outcome could be good, could be not so good. Part of me wanted to phone, the other part didn’t, which is stupid since I have to phone to find out the result!

I went off to make some beds to calm my brain down enough to hold a phone conversation with a potential employer. It’s silly, I can take a bunch of people I don’t know off for a day’s walk. I can do a job interview without any great problems. Leave me waiting three days to hear the outcome of said interview and I start to try and work out a contingency plan should they not want to employ me.

Then I had to wait for my phone to sieve the Orange phone signal out of the air. Phoned the store, asked for the person and… got the job. See, how silly was all that fretting and worrying! Perhaps I should listen to my own advice that I tell other people.

I begin on the 3rd of October. I stop working here on the 2nd of October. I then begin working here again “sometime in March”. So work is arranged now until this time next year. Wonder what I’ll be doing then.

If the weather isn’t cack, I’m supposed to be going to Scotland next Monday to do Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis with Paul. If the weather is alright, but it starts to go bad in Glen Coe we’re going to do the Aonach Eagach Ridge or something else in Glen Coe. If we arrive in Fort William and it starts to look nasty we’ll do some low-level climbing. If we get to the CIC hut and in the morning it begins to go bad, we’ll go down the tourist track and do something low level. If we discover it raining here before we even set off, we won’t go. If we get to the top and it’s clear enough, we’re going down the Carn Mor Dearg Arete. If it’s manky we’re going down Gully 3, and if it’s really really really manky we’re going down the tourist path.

Oh, and if it starts off OK, but half way up the route the weather closes in, we’ll go “aww shit” and either persevere until fear prevents onward travel, or we’ll find some way off. Some way not involving a team of men from Fort William or the big yellow helicopter.

Barring cars falling apart, aliens abducting us, or something else we’ve not thought of, we’ve got enough plans to do something :-) And then I’m going to see about visiting Angus.