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Phone Interviews...

..and more phone interviews

I've one or two phone interviews in the last couple of days, well I wouldn't say they were interviews more a gentle walk through of my CV. I have decided to go down the route of being "Candour and Honesty" about my current situation, and so far it seems to be working. I had a call today with one "Talent Scout" who works for a fairly large IT company who are expanding at the moment. I was telling them about my experiences in the last couple of months (I should have blogged about them!). The "Talent Scout" actually thanked me for my honesty and then proceeded to tell me he knew of my current employers and had his own experience of them. Lets just say he completely sympathised with me and I will leave it at that. 

We had good conversation and the "Talent Scout" said that the role I was going for was maybe a bit beyond me....BUT he was very very keen to get me in front of other heads of team because they thought that I was good very good fit for another role that they had in mind. So things are looking positive in that way.

The no show person actually got back to me and apologised, there had been an emergency that day and they had to leave work. I am speaking to them tomorrow on the phone. I in fact have 2 phone interviews tomorrow one in the morning and one in the afternoon. I am getting bit tired of ducking out of the office, ducking into the car park and doing my talking there; so I have decided to take the day off. 

It will allow me to get on with some much needed learning. I am following a You Tube demo of some guy setting up a local DB and then creating tables using Microsoft Server Management. I thought it would be helpful in the long run when I have mastered a bit of basic Python I wanted to create a simple entry form that could write to that local DB and then I could write some simple tests. Yea that is lot of simples in there. Still I think that this is best way for me to learn.

Last night I went to a talk about TDD(Test Driven Development) it was refreshing to hear it explained in such clear way. Made some notes which I hope I can then pass on to the good people in my next job. I regretted not asking how TDD bumps up against BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) I wish I had. 

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