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IJune 18th, 2009

More details will follow in a few days, but following my voluntary redundancy from South West Trains on May 8th I have a new job.  Less than three weeks after leaving South West Trains I was offered an interview which took place last week, and the following day I received a call telling me I’d got the job.

23rd March

The standard of recruitment web sites has improved a lot since I was last using them 5 years ago. They are still not brilliant though. One thing that's really frustrating about job-hunting, using the internet is the poor standard of websites. So many of them seem as though they have never been tested, and software testing is something I've done a lot of in the past. I won't bore you with the details but so many prompt you to enter information in several fields, and then if there's anything wrong, such as a trailing space,  the whole lot get deleted.

Quite often no thought has been given to layout, and clickable buttons are often not in the place where one would intuitively expect.

Websites that have been tested, can still fail, as many have obviously been tested by the designer themselves. I think it's imperative that somebody with user experience tests websites.

So often standard features such as a login box or a search box are just so difficult to find. Why don't companies test their own products before making them live?

One of the worst things that I occasionally see is websites that invite you to upload your CV, and then they automatically split it into bits and process it and you end up with an absolute jumble.

13th March

I registered my CV on some of the bigger national recruitment web sites.

I also thoroughly updated my CV, standard cover letter and various web pages, as linked above.

12th March, I have signed the contract for voluntary redundancy from South West Trains.  I was ready for a change.

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