After many, many... many months of job hunting I signed up to jobseekers benefits. After another month since then I was finally given the interviews I was hoping for. The first one came from The Character Shop in Birmingham. This will be a junior animator role working on Zoo Troop III for Haven Holiday Camp. The interview consisted of a 3 day test by animating a 14 second piece of dialogue of the main character; Rory the Tiger. Fully modeled and rigged in 3ds Max with Biped. I finished on the morning of the forth day before I had to get my train back home and was accepted to be on the team for a 3 month contract when it starts.
I got the train back home and then hopped on another train to London. This time I was going for an interview at Prime Focus in Soho. I arrived very early so I had time to relax which was much needed in the busy area of Soho. I got to the interview 15 minutes early as planned and waited for my two interviewers.
There was a bit of confusion at the beginning. You see, someone in HR told the interviewers that I had applied for the Data Operator role when in fact I had applied for the Junior Support Technician. So the questions they were asking and the answers I was giving were conflicting in both of our minds. Soon they realised we were on totally different tracks and they began to interview me for the role I actually applied for - leading on from the other role as not to repeat the same questions.
In the end it worked out quite well, because they have put me forward for both of those roles - so it was almost like hitting two birds with one stone!
Data Op isn't something I particularly like the sound of, but that's only because I wasn't sure what that was until my interviewers started saying "You know this is a really boring job" and "You will be punching numbers and data all day long in a dark dingy cave with no outlet for creativity"... okay the dark dingy cave thing I made up... but that's what it felt like. The Junior Support Technician role is perfect for me though. I've done it before and as it's a Junior role I won't be expected to know everything and I already have a willingness to learn. So I can't see a problem there.
Anywho, my four day interview week went very, very well and it's only a matter of time now before I can start working again and making £££££!
Location: Cafe Libre - Soho, London
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