The Black Plague.

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That was almost me.

Just imagine if, instead of impulsively moving to the UK, I'd done the sensible thing and stayed in Australia another year to build my experience points.

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Re: IT Jobs melbourne.

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Heh, I've been keeping an eye out on the resumes that land at work, generally for a job there's about 150 applications. 10 of which probably can handle the job, and out of those about 5 of which we'd want to hire. Now I'm pretty sure you'd be in that 5 so that's 5 people you would have been competing against not 150.

I do well once I get to interview stage. At the interview, the game is poker. The trick is getting the interview - it's résumé roulette. There is no magic CV; it's numbers, numbers, numbers. I worked out that it took me seven hundred job applications to get six interviews, four of which were in the last two weeks of my search and two of which were the ones that got me my present position.

Bah. My brain is probably scrambled on this subject from the aftereffects of jobhunting :-) If I was actually in Melbourne and an Ericsson retrenchee, I'd have (I hope) saved like a motherfucker for that year so as to move to the UK. And would probably go as quickly as possible. With the magical Two Years of ClearCase under my belt and stuff.

"But I'm an arrogant workaholic who's discovered the powers inherent in wearing a nice suit."

Heh. And I remember when you were meek and mild ...