Showing posts with label Job Stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Job Stuff. Show all posts

Monday, November 24, 2008

New Job

As you might be able to tell from the last post, I managed to find a job! It came about as a bit of an accident, and is a little bit of a long story, but I'll try to condense it and bullet it out.
  • one weekend I am somewhat depressed about the job situation and expand the search to include medical office management, which I have done, and could do well, but would not be the most exciting thing in the world, especially after going to the trouble of getting an MBA
  • the woman from the agency that had one of the listings I responded to called and asked me to interview with her
  • I go and interview with the agency and they send me right over to a plastic surgeon's office, whose primary concern is that she wants an employee to stay with her for at least two years
  • The interview goes well and she asks me to come to the office for a trial run (2 hours working with the current manager)
  • She offers me the job, wants me to come in for a couple days the next week then full time, I tell her I need to talk to the hubs because he hadn't been home the past two nights and had no idea what was going on
  • She interprets this as some sort of weakness, and says she'll continue to interview until I give her an answer, at which point I say that I will let her know later that afternoon
  • I email her (her preferred method of contact) that I would like to accept half an hour after leaving the office
  • The next day I receive a call from the recruiter saying that the doctor "was referred someone else by a colleague and wanted to go with her," so both the recruiter and I got screwed
  • Next Monday the recruiter tells me she has another position
  • I go to the interview, everyone is very nice, and they hire me, while telling me that they would prefer it if I look for other jobs while in my probationary period, so that I know that I really want to be there