Not so much a thread asking for advice, more a thread to just let you know of the brilliant luck that I've just had...
I'm an Electrician, I work as an Electrician's Mate so I can gain practical experience, since I finished college a year and a half ago.
I've been working with agencies on sites all over London from wonderful places like the o2 Arena to Monument to not so well-known places like Ruislip.
In between jobs I can spend anywhere between one to eight weeks out of work and as such its not ideal for when I move out into the real world so I've recently endeavoured to get work in a firm for a permanent position.
A week before I finished my last job I booked a holiday for the 21st of July to the 26th with my missus in the view that I had three weeks to get more work at which point there would only be a week left before I jet off out of here on holiday.
Here lies the dilemma, the company I applied to, the owner lives about ten minutes from me so I typed out a covering letter and I printed out my CV and delivered it to him by hand hoping to get a response within days of receiving my letter, this was one day after the week I finished my previous job so this left two weeks for a response.
However, I received no response from the firm not even a phone call to confirm receipt of my letter and that they were interested in my application so I quite reasonably presumed that they weren't interested.
But today however, I receive a call from a lady who happens to be the secretary of the firm, telling me I have an interview arranged for this Thursday which is mere days before my holiday, I'm pretty sure it will work severly against me but I'm good at interviews and I have very good speechcraft but I'm just dreading my balls off as I really, REALLY need this job but I can't cancel the holiday as I won't get much of my moolah refunded this close to the day I'm travelling.
The owner AND co-owner of the company will be interviewing me so the impression I'm getting is that their taking me on or not is on a knife edge but I'm sure I can convince them to take me on dispite the fact I won't be able to work for them until a week later...
I'm just dreading it man
Wish me luck people!![]()


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