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A year and some change ago, I started working at my current company. A company that does EDI. If you don't know what it is, you're in the overwhelming majority of people and likely far more sane as a result of not knowing. My current position is guiding vendors through syntax testing for retailers of all kinds. In a nutshell, square peg goes in square hole for retailer X, for retailer Y Hexagon shaped peg goes in hexagon shaped hole. Simple stuff, or you would think. I want a change in my day to day. To give you an example, I've sent 260 emails since Monday, not including ones I generate in a program called Salesforce. So, by my math, at the end of the week I'll average around 70 emails a day or roughly 9 emails an hour given a standard 8 hour work day.
Me on a daily basis except less female, and with more coffee
Monday night, I applied for a change in departments, the change is from my current testing role, to a group that monitors production orders for issues in data flow, and loads of enthralling stuff that will surely keep you on the edge of your seats. This is what you get excited about after school kids, welcome to adulthood. I'll let you know when I own a pair of khaki pants and an extensive collection of colorful polos to compliment my Land's End existence. Imagine my surprise when I found two emails scheduling an interview for Thursday the 13th and Friday the 14th
Wooooooo.
The position is purely internal facing, which means no angry customers complaining about what they can and can't do, no explaining a pretty simple code to people that don't deal with it on a daily basis, and a pay bump to boot. I could conceivably do this job without a phone on my desk, which is and idea that makes me grin ear to ear at the thought of it.
The first interview was with HR this morning, and I think it went reasonably well. I was in the same hiring class with the girl who conducted the interview which both reduced stress, and I think made everything a bit less formal that it would have been otherwise. She seemed optimistic, and peppy about everything, but she is HR after all. I believe that is in their job description.
She at least seemed more enthusiastic than Toby.
Tomorrow I have an interview with the manager of the department I am looking to move to, and despite being relatively anxiety free for Tuesday and Wednesday, I was up at 4 this morning and in the office by 6 AM to get as much work out of the way as I possibly could before a half hour interview. I am a glutton for punishment, what can I say. I literally dreamed about an Outlook inbox that I couldn't get down to zero last night (I should mention my department is insanely busy at the moment to boot.) This new job would hopefully spell the end of problem vendors and their very unwelcome effect on my mental state.
The short term plan: Go home, walk dog, start laundry so I have a clean dress shirt for tomorrow, get drink, get drink, interview prep, get drink, bed by eight o' clock. I've got the chops for this gig, I just have to beat out some competition who is a bit more senior in terms of time with the company than myself. If I do well tomorrow I'll have one more interview with the Vice President of Operations at my company who ultimately has the final say as to whether or not I get the promotion.
I ask this of you TL, put some good vibes out, and I'll report back for better or for worse whatever the result., as always, thanks for the read.
Counting the little victories though, all interview experiences is good experience. By the time I finished this blog, I got up to 264 emails.
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I am sad I know what EDI is and have read our company version of it a few times even though it has very little to do with my job. Good luck in the interview.
Personally I am going back to school in a week or so, changing out of my current job that way.
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On August 14 2015 06:25 Yurie wrote:
I am sad I know what EDI is and have read our company version of it a few times even though it has very little to do with my job. Good luck in the interview.
Personally I am going back to school in a week or so, changing out of my current job that way.
Appreciate it sir, I love the company and it is going places so I am sticking with it. I feel like I got in at the right time, right before HR has gone on a super PC power trip. I just was talking about referring an old co-worker from Target, who said she was being written up potentially for saying shit on the contact center floor.
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Good vibes!
Edit: all hail itcrowd!
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Papua New Guinea1059 Posts
Oh dude. I applied for a department change in my company on 5/28. Had phone interview with HR on 6/1, phone interview with the director of the department I'd be moving to (nailed it) on 6/10, followup interview with a manager that would be my direct superior on 7/17, received information that VP of the department I would be going to talking to my current director about my release on 8/6. Going strong in my 3rd month of recruitment, hope your transition is more swift.
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Good luck! Hope it all goes well. Let us know either way.
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UPDATE:
Interview with manager held today. Small upshot to being in a smaller** company (**ca. 1000 employees is small compared to Target), Everything went well enough, very conversational, informal though my nerves were tuned up of course interview. I have an interview scheduled with the VP of Operations on Tuesday next week.
It is my understanding that Managers don't have complete autonomy with regards to hiring decisions but their input is heavily considered. Input from coworkers who made the same move indicates my getting the gig is preferred to another coworker, currently on the testing team getting the job. He. "hoped he would be consulted to express his preference for my getting the job in favor of the other coworker."
Still feeling up hill. The other candidate has been with the company for at least 6 months more than me, and has a titular one up on myself. That being said, I am reasonably certain that I have more interview experience and interview better than himself.
Full suit day Tuesday, a far cry from the normal Tee and Jeans for my day to day. 8 hours of discomfort for hopefully a new opportunity and new set of experiences.
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