Huddersfield

Rejected.

DCS RA

Interviewed for a job modelling E-coli. Was the only candidate, but failed. Didn't really understand why they interviewed me anyway. I don't have experience of agent based modelling or even an O level in biology. The lack of biology is the given reason, but was clear from the start on my CV.

Interview at Huddersfield

They want 4 RAs to increase research activity. I've been interviewed, but then got a letter saying they would not complete the process for a while. Interviewing more candidates I guess.

Job at MRL

Went to the Mixed Reality Lab in Nottingham for an interview. They believe I had limited skills in HCI and interface applications and that my skills laid with GIS. Only ten years of application interfaces on my CV though :) I must have failed to get something across I guess, although with a broad CV like mine it is always possible to say too much of X and too little Y. I guess competition was stiff again.

Another one at Sheffield

Management school. An interesting job modelling the effect of social networks on evacuations and their planning. Someone with game theory experience got the job.

BJSS open day

I went to an open day at BJSS (don't ask what it stands for). A software company with a low profile, but an impressive client list. We had a talk followed by a Java test. Out of the four of us one passed the test and got interviewed. It wasn't me. Java is not my strongest suit, but I did think I had done OK. Never mind.

Aberystwyth GIS position

I went to an interview at Aber. They were looking for someone to organise GIS data for the Dyfi Biosphere project. They were very impressed, but I lost out to someone with previous experience of the environmental issues at Dyfi. They will email me posts that are coming up later though and that means I am doing something right.

I still don't know how I got through the whole interview without mentioning that I used to do lots of climbing and walking in Snowdonia, but there you go, your brain deserts you sometimes :).