Head Spinning Week

What a crazy week it has been. Things have moved very quickly and I am now up to the final round on 3 jobs with another couple in the pipeline. There were phone interviews, face-to-face interviews, skills tests on the phone and an online Fluid Intelligence (read IQ) test.

The IQ test was of note. Scored very highly on speed and accuracy on 3 of the tests and very average on the other 2. The worst was the spatial test - how many of the pairs are of the same figure? I don't know. I freely admit to being a girl on this and being bad at judging shapes, distances, reading maps etc. : ) The insights they were able to glean from me doing 5 sets of tests were amazing. They said that I can process information quickly, may find it easy to hold information in my short-term memory (hey, Tee Yiap!), like my work to be challenging & fast-paced or can get bored easily & can manipulate numbers quickly. The one thing they weren't able to determine from the test was my gender. Got that wrong on the report! : P

Arrived 45 minutes early for an interview on Thursday morning, so, instead of loitering around like the suspicious character I know I appear to be from my airport experiences, I went for a wander in the rain down to the London Eye. I must say, it looks a lot better at night with the lights than on an overcast morning.

Something else to report - drum roll, please...I overtook my first couple of fellow pedestrians the other day who weren't octogenarians with walking frames! Londoners walk tremendously quickly, especially the ones with stilettos. I, in my jeans and sneakers walking at 1m/s, am swept/bumped/jostled past wherever I go. What a boost to the ego that was!

Anyway, a quiet weekend planned, perhaps a stroll along Southbank before 2 interviews next week and 2 assessment centres (one of them is in Brussels! Cool!) the week after.