Pointers!

[laoke]

Indications that you might just be in with a shot at a really interesting position - when the person doing the interviewing responds to your CV with 'It's a small world - your reference Joe.Bloggs (real name redacted to protect the guilty) is a good friend of my husbands

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[laoke]

Cool - I keep meaning to catch up with her. Is she still at Mercury?

[meledea]

my childhood dream of becoming a hot librarian may be about to come true

For a moment I had a very odd mental image. But I figure you're not referring to the pencil skirt+blouse kind of hot librarian...

Good luck though!! That would be an awesome job.

[laoke]

And horn-rim glasses.

[bowdlerizer]

Are you coming to work at my work?

I would like that

[laoke]

Alas, no. I don't tend to name places I'm looking for work on public forums - call me paranoid, but if I was hiring someone? I'd make at least some effort to see if they're on the standard social networks.

This is also why I don't tend to bitch about work that much : )

[bowdlerizer]

Ok. I just work in a library is all, sorry

[twilight2000]

wOOt! Being enthusiastic about work is da bomb! Do you have an MA in Library or did you come to Info Mgmt some other way?

[laoke]

(B) Other way, and it's not a sure thing.

Basically, I've just finished contracting at a government department as a desktop support specialist, and while there impressed the manager of information services enough that she asked if I'd be interested in applying for a job with them - I don't have the job description yet, but from what I understand it'll be supporting and developing their document management systems.

I have 0 experience at information management outside of being head librarian at school, so I'm a long way from certain I'll get the position - but the fact that I've been asked to apply, along with her knowing one of my references personally, means I'm at least in with a chance.

And hey, it'd look great on the CV : )

[rivet]

::crosses fingers::