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		<title>Job Interview Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Norton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t get the job at the National Library, but the odd thing is that no one got the job. They decided that they wouldn&#8217;t hire anyone at all. Talking to the girl in the personel department I got the &#8230; <a href="http://www.norton42.org.uk/5-job-interview-update.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t get the job at the National Library, but the odd thing is that no one got the job.  They decided that they wouldn&#8217;t hire anyone at all.  Talking to the girl in the personel department I got the idea that I would have got the job if I had spoken Welsh.  Teriffic!  It was clear that I had all of the technical knowledge to do well in the job, but my lack Welsh skills let me down.</p>
<p>She did mention that there was a position comming up in September for another tyle of role in the same department.  However, I think this will be unsuitable for me as it was basically contact work.  Having a family I can&#8217;t risk the inconsistency of contract work.  I mean, although it would be great to work in that role, I don&#8217;t know what I would do when it was over.</p>
<p>The fact that it is so difficult to get a job around here if you don&#8217;t talk Welsh realy annoys me.  Every job advert around says &#8220;Welsh is desirable&#8221;, but I would have thought that my web development ability would be more important.  The 2001 Welsh speakers census found that just 36% of the population of Ceredigion are able to speak Welsh, and 100% can speak English.  So why is it so important that IT positions always have Welsh as a desirable attribute?</p>
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		<title>Job Interview</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went for a job interview yesterday for the job of Web Assistant (Digital Delivery) in the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. As far as I can tell it all went very well. At one point one of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.norton42.org.uk/4-job-interview.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I went for a job interview yesterday for the job of Web Assistant (Digital Delivery) in the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.  As far as I can tell it all went very well.  At one point one of the panel members put some HTML code, and the associated style information in front of me and told me to draw a picture of the web page.  After 5 minutes I had finished, and when she showed me what the page really looks like I was spot on!  I&#8217;m sure that impressed them.  I also had a little chat with the network head about AJAX and what I had done with that.  There was lots of furious scribbling as I was talking.</p>
<p>They said that they would let me know this morning.  So I&#8217;m now sat in work waiting for a phone call.  So my heart skips a beat every time the phone rings!</p>
<p>It would be a fantastic opportunity to move into web development.  Not only that, it&#8217;s a fantastic opportunity to move away from training people who absolutely don&#8217;t want to be trained, which is what I really don&#8217;t want to be stuck doing for the rest of my career.</p>
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