3rd year Placement - The Interviews so far....

Today was a big day for me, yes I know big day.  Not only did I have to submit my AI coursework, but me and Pete spent 4 hours working on CNET, and it's almost done, gonna complete it 2moz, well today if u wanna get technical, lol.

Gonna hand that in on Monday, bright and early.

Anyhow, onto the subject at hand

Today I got 2 emails, one from Microsoft, and the other from GCHQ (www.gchq.gov.uk).  Both saying that I'd past initial screening and was on the interview list.

Here's the GCHQ email:

Dear Nicholas

Thank you for your application to the Sponsored Undergraduate Technologist campaign. I am pleased to inform you that you have passed the sift stage of the selection process. We would like to invite you to attend an interview on [PRIVATE], You will also complete personality and security questionnaires, and take a drugs test, this should approx take 4 hours.

Please arrive at [PRIVATE] at the Visitors Reception Centre, GCHQ, Hubble Road, Cheltenham, GL51 0EX. If you cannot attend or are unable to arrive by this time, please let us know as soon as possible. Regrettably we cannot promise to be able to interview candidates who arrive late.

Please reply by email to [PRIVATE], advising whether you attend. If you are traveling by private car and wish to park on-site, please also supply the car’s registration number at the same time.

Please bring the following with you on the day:

a) This invitation

b) Either a full 10 year British passport

Or TWO of the following:

• British driving licence
• P45
• Birth certificate produced within 6 weeks of birth
• Cheque book and bank card plus 3 statements and proof of signature
• Credit card plus 3 statements and proof of signature
• Credit card with photograph
• Proof of residence such as a recent Council tax, gas, electricity, water or telephone bill

c) Four passport-sized photographs of yourself.

We hope that you will be able to attend and look forward to meeting you then. If you have any queries in the meantime, please feel free to email or phone us.

Kind regards,

GCHQ Recruitment Team

OMG, a drugs test, WTF, I've neva had one of them before. OUCH. .

Should be fun tho, gonna drive up there myself in my Car. lol.

Anyhow, as well as that I also got an email from Microsoft, YAY , with phone interview details, and that email is as follows:

Dear Nick

MS/Students 07 Tech Microsoft Student Placement 2007

Thank you for your recent application for the above programme. I am pleased to advise that we would like to progress you on to the next stage.

We will contact you during within the next 5 working days to conduct a short telephone interview that should last approx. 10-15 minutes. This is just a short, informal interview about some of your past experiences and why you want to come to Microsoft. There are no hidden questions.

Should you receive a telephone message from Obvious we would be obliged if you could return it promptly.

Obvious is facilitating the web-based recruitment process for this position. Obvious is bound by the same terms of confidentiality and professional conduct as Microsoft and give you the assurance that no information supplied by candidates will be disclosed to any external party or used for any activity other than in consideration for employment with Microsoft.

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us on [PRIVATE].

Kind regards

Graduate team

Stepstone Obvious on behalf of Microsoft

Wooo, it's all going my way by the looks of things, just want HP, intel or IBM now.  I'm not going to bother with the banks, as I don't feel like that's the way I want to go, unfortunatly, and since I've already been asked to an inteview with these 2, I think my time can be better spent. lol.

Anyhow, that's the brief update on matters, hope to have really good new for you soon.

O and for all of you waiting for a exchange 2007 technet download notification, u'll have to wait, it's still not on technet yet, and I doubt it'll be on there for another week or so yet.  Can't wait for that tho.

Gotta revise on Sunday for my Monday SQL open book in-class test, and my Tuesday JAVA test.

All good, anyhow, that's all folks.....