Thursday, February 10, 2005
So the job search goes on. I had an interview with a company known as Management Resources Inc. Basically, they are head hunters for medical industries. Of course, my job would be nothing like that. I would be essentially a gopher. They need dialysists in Memphis to fill a position for 90 days. They need some information about a particular company. They need to update the information in the database. Erase duplicates and update the information that is incorrect. Remove companies that don't exist any more.
And that is the most intriguing part of the job. I, a guy with no training in that area, am being considered for an IT guy. Mainly because no one wants the menial job of sitting on the phone line with the tech support for the server. No one wants to install the software in the new computer. No one wants to have to go to Comp USA to buy another computer. When I mentioned that I would love the job because it would actually get me some education in things that I am interested in. That's when it was mentioned to me that the company has a deal worked out with an education company that certifies employees of MRI in several areas, such as Microsoft and Cisco. The pay may not be great, but I could actually pull off a pretty sweet job in it. Of course, nothing is certain.
On Tuesday, I called Verizon's call center. They called me back yesterday. Today, I went in for testing. I know that I have to go back to another interview. I know this because I ran into a former Dell co-worker, Matt. He took his test last week and has an interview today. He said the first training class was next month. That's the same as I was told on the phone yesterday. The interviewer wasn't sure about it.
I got a call from Comcast while I was away. I returned the call and left a message on voice mail saying that I would be available after three and tomorrow morning. I went to run my errands. I had some things to mail. I got back at 2:30 and missed Comcast by five minutes. Of course, they may call back tomorrow. I will call them back in the morning.
Of course, today's interviews had the same type of psychological questions of "Tell me a time you had to tell a customer no and how you handled it." There were four questions like that. Of course, when I started at Wal-Mart they had more obscure questions such as "True of False. Management should be allowed extra benefits." I remember that one because I got it wrong apparently. There are no wrong answers, but I was questioned about that one.
Tomorrow's mission is to surf the websites and fill in resumes on Monster and Career Builder and wait for Comcast.
My one word to describe myself? Opinionated.
And that is the most intriguing part of the job. I, a guy with no training in that area, am being considered for an IT guy. Mainly because no one wants the menial job of sitting on the phone line with the tech support for the server. No one wants to install the software in the new computer. No one wants to have to go to Comp USA to buy another computer. When I mentioned that I would love the job because it would actually get me some education in things that I am interested in. That's when it was mentioned to me that the company has a deal worked out with an education company that certifies employees of MRI in several areas, such as Microsoft and Cisco. The pay may not be great, but I could actually pull off a pretty sweet job in it. Of course, nothing is certain.
On Tuesday, I called Verizon's call center. They called me back yesterday. Today, I went in for testing. I know that I have to go back to another interview. I know this because I ran into a former Dell co-worker, Matt. He took his test last week and has an interview today. He said the first training class was next month. That's the same as I was told on the phone yesterday. The interviewer wasn't sure about it.
I got a call from Comcast while I was away. I returned the call and left a message on voice mail saying that I would be available after three and tomorrow morning. I went to run my errands. I had some things to mail. I got back at 2:30 and missed Comcast by five minutes. Of course, they may call back tomorrow. I will call them back in the morning.
Of course, today's interviews had the same type of psychological questions of "Tell me a time you had to tell a customer no and how you handled it." There were four questions like that. Of course, when I started at Wal-Mart they had more obscure questions such as "True of False. Management should be allowed extra benefits." I remember that one because I got it wrong apparently. There are no wrong answers, but I was questioned about that one.
Tomorrow's mission is to surf the websites and fill in resumes on Monster and Career Builder and wait for Comcast.
My one word to describe myself? Opinionated.
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