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[Kwacky]

Sounds promising. There's certainly nothing list in going for it.

[Kwacky]

They asked me to in tomorrow. I told them I want a week at home with no appointments. I should have been in Surrey today but I need to spend time catching up with other work and admin. B

[Cav]

First day in the new job went great. Smaller team than I thought, I'm the 3rd team member, and much more variety to the projects too. Some quite interesting stuff has been thought up which may be coming my way!

[Stonesie]

Ok so my assessment got rescheduled to this Monday, and has now been cancelled with no explanation.

The only thing I can think of is the CD-30 from the GS crash I had, so in another 18 months those will expire and I can try again.

[kiwikrasher]

Ok so my assessment got rescheduled to this Monday, and has now been cancelled with no explanation.

The only thing I can think of is the CD-30 from the GS crash I had, so in another 18 months those will expire and I can try again.

That’s a bit average that there has been no communication why.

[Stonesie]

I have asked directly by text and a message on the website by replying to the notification, but no response so far.

CD-30 = 3 points and a fine for "Driving without due care and attention or without reasonable consideration for other road users" so I can see why they don't like that I have that on my license but it is right there on my CV so I don't know why they offered me a driving assessment in the first place if that's a problem for their insurers. Many job listings for HGV drivers say they won't accept CD codes but this one did not.

[kiwikrasher]

They posted internally the role at the RAAF Base to keep everything above board, and asked me to apply for it.

3 other people have applied for it as well so now I have to interview on Monday for it

[Kwacky]

That's a bit rude

[Kwacky]

Prepped for a big teams meeting with a large construction company, a meeting they requested.

1 person turned up.

It took about 10 minutes.

[StMarks]

Prepped for a big teams meeting with a large construction company, a meeting they requested.

1 person turned up.

It took about 10 minutes.

Fwiw a lot of our Teams meetings go something like that.
Invites received & confirmed by the (eg 10-20) involved. Meeting opens, host there video on mic on.
Myself & maybe 2-6 attending mic off video off, and very little 2 way constructive dialogue achieved. I have also noticed that a lot of participants seem to prefer to use the chat/text stream that runs parallel to the meeting. They would seem to prefer to type their input, rather than discuss it. Makes a bit of a farce of it all imho.

[kiwikrasher]

It may be short lived.

I’m working through another opportunity that has come up. It’s a government role that is far more challenging and engaging, 40% increase in salary, car/phone/laptop, WFH/Office hybrid, with site visits.

The organisation doesn’t know yet that there is going to be a vacancy. They listed expressions of interest for their talent pool recently, and I had a someone I know quite well in that department . So I talked to him about advice on a submission. Only for him to tell me he’s putting his notice in on Monday. He’s been working on a flying job and has landed an amazing opportunity doing just that.
So he’s coaching me on my submission, and when he hands his notice in is going to give me a personal recommendation. I won’t get his role, but his subordinate will take it, and that role will become open.

It’s a bit of a stretch and jumping a number of levels in the department if I went into this role. But it’s the way my mate got in as well and we have very similar qualifications and experience in the field, so he has no doubt I would be a suitable candidate.

One area that could bring me unstuck is you have to provide a certified copy of your driving record. Although my licence has no demerit points against it currently, it’s far from a ‘clean record’.

So will see how this pans out. If it doesn’t, being at the RAAF Base is still a reasonable gig with scope for movement.

Well seems the driving record was good enough as I’ve got through to the next round.

Email late Friday requesting an assessment task, to be completed by Monday lunchtime. I have to pick one of the departments focus areas for their 2024-2025 Regulatory Priorities, and a major risk/harm from that area, and produce a 5 slide presentation of a program proposal covering the following

• Identify the focus area and high-risk priority industry or harm
• How you will use, analyse data and intelligence to develop the program
• What resources you will need to conduct the program
• Identify any legislative, specialised or technical areas
• The internal and external stakeholders you need to engage with
• How the program will improve compliance
• How you will measure the success of the program

Spent 4 hours yesterday and feel I have a pretty good scaffold to work with now and a relevant data set. Today to put it all together

If I get to the interview round after this, I have to present the program to the interview panel.

Definitely a challenge, but if I can’t manage this then I don’t deserve to be looked at for the role.

[kiwikrasher]

Just got an email.

Apparently my presentation stood out and I’ve been asked to schedule an interview.

Meanwhile in my current role I’m still stuck down at Ports as they are interviewing other candidates for the Richmond spot. They had to advertise it internally, and unexpectedly they had 4 other people apply. So they are duty bound to interview them.

[Kwacky]

I've had a load of work dumped on me. It's a combination of people leaving and other departments being too busy

I hate taking over other peoples files. They never feel like your own.