February 22, 2008 at 5:25 pm (Economics, Innocent Smoothies, Jobs)
Yesterday I posted about the bad news of failing the civil fast stream assessment centre. Since receiving this news I found out about two exciting opportunities:
1) A graduate programme at innocent smoothies – this is something that I had been looking for a long time, and it seems like some sort of miracle. Richard Reed, one of the founders of Innocent is going to be coming to Oxford in a couple of weeks to talk to Oxford Entrepreneurs – an unmissable event.
2) A directly recruited policy analyst position at the Treasury.
Life is never as bad as it seems, it is only as bad as you make it. Good news is always around the corner.
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February 21, 2008 at 6:05 pm (Economics, Jobs)
Over the past few months I have applied to a number of jobs related to economics and consultancy. The government economic services (a branch of the civil fast stream) was a scheme that I was most hopeful of getting. Once in, I would have been able to start a career as an economist in the health, education or environment sectors – it would have been a great stepping stone towards my dream of becoming a development economist.
This afternoon I received a message in my Fast Stream inbox:
“Thank you for attending the Fast Stream Assessment Centre recently. We are very sorry to say that, after careful consideration, the Board has not recommended you for appointment to this scheme on this occasion. You will be aware that competition for the Fast Stream is intense and you did extremely well to reach the Assessment Centre stage.”
Yet another rejection.
I guess life could be a lot worse, and I still have a number of options open. It’s just a bit frustrating how I spent more than 3/4 days preparing for and attending interviews and assessment centres related to this scheme. All these applications have really cut into time that I should have spent revising for exams. Oh well.
Hopefully the response from the Bank of England will be more positive on Wednesday.
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