Job Prospects

I know I said that I would try not to blog about personal issues but resolutions are made to be broken.

As some of you are aware I have been looking unsuccessfully for a job as an engineer for the last few months. Anyway there was one prospect that came up at a Job expo at the local university that seemed very cool. It was with a consultancy company that works in waste water processing; which was exactly the field of Chemical and Process Engineering that I hoped to get into when I graduated but was beginning to despair of getting as it is commonly a Civil Engineering discipline. Anyway the expo was on Wednesday and on that Friday I emailed the guy I had spoken to (and given a copy of my CV to) with a coverletter expressing my interest in working for their company. I got an email back on the Monday asking for my CV (go figure). I emailed them back on Tuesday with an updated version of my CV and got an email back that evening asking for a telephone conference on Thursday. After the telephone conference I was told that within the next week they'd get in touch with me as to whether they wished to fly me down for further interviewing. The very next day I received an email from them with a flight tickets attached for the following Wednesday. After having the interview with them they told me that they'd get in touch with me within a week as to whether they were going to employ me. That was 2.5 weeks ago and I have been sitting on tenterhooks ever since. I emailed them last week thanking them for the opportunity of the interview (ie in business parlance, whats going on at your end guys?). Then yesterday morning I received an email from them informing me that they were interested in employing me and that I can expect an official offer from them in the next week or so. :)

For those of you that are interested the company is called Waste Solutions Ltd which is a subsidery of Duffill Watts and King. It seems like a very awesome company to work for. They all have a deepseated belief in the need to take care of our environment and our country. Wherever possible if they can install a waste processor that is as clean as possible then they will tend towards that solution. In other words they have philosophies very similar to my own and two of the ten or so employees are Christians (one of them is the boss). None of them smoke and few of them drink. They have a very flat management structure and operate as a team rather than a group of individuals working together. All up it seems to be exactly the environment that I wished to work in.

Thank you to any one who was praying for me in this, G@d has more than answered my prayers. If you would continue to pray that I can find a Christian flat with young professionals (as opposed to students) in Dunedin and can find a good circle of Christians down there that will accept me into their friendship.

I will be setting up another blog chronicling my adventures down south.