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Aug. 24th, 2004 04:48 pmI've managed to land a skills assessment for tomorrow followed by an interview on Thursday followed by, hopefully, a job doing phone based end-user software/hardware support for a Ford subcontractor. This was through someone who actually called me based on the resume I've posted on various job sites. School is finally starting to pay off.
I am more than a little nervous. I'm nervous about the interview though I think I'll manage to get through that. I'm also nervous about the skills assessment. The recruiter asked about computer skills and familiarity with OSs, but he also asked about MS Office apps which I honestly am not terribly familiar with. I can use Word to write résumés and stuff but I know very little about it's advanced functions. As for Excel, I've done even less with it. I hope that most of the support issues will be around the custom software they said they would train me on. In the meantime, I'm going to spend a while tonight alternately lying in bed with my beloved's Office 2000 for Dummies book and sitting in front on my 'puter playing with said software. I have Office 2003; I hope it's similar enough. I'm worried too just because this would really be my first job in the industry and I'm not entirely sure what to expect. Does anyone with any EU support experience have an opinion?
I also am thinking about registering for the Microsoft 70-210 exam tomorrow morning before the skills assessment. They're both out in the same area, sort of. I'm feeling mostly confident with the 2KPro exam. I think there's probably no way I'll get all three out of the way before my Security classes start, but we'll see how things go. After a period of worrying about having not so much to do, my life may have started to get busy again. Be careful what you wish for, eh?
In other news, I found (but did not buy, much as I was tempted) an IBM compatible scanner. There are scanners in the thrift store all the time; what was so special about this one? It was built for use with an IBM AT. I was amazed. That must be like those Corvettes in the '50s that had fuel injection. Nobody had that. It was in great shape too. I was very tempted. Rather than a moving scanning element, it had a feed mechanism to draw individual sheets of paper through it. At first I thought it was a paper shredder. I was geeked. Andrea understood and even appreciated my reaction, for which I love her immensely. It is so good to be understood.
I am more than a little nervous. I'm nervous about the interview though I think I'll manage to get through that. I'm also nervous about the skills assessment. The recruiter asked about computer skills and familiarity with OSs, but he also asked about MS Office apps which I honestly am not terribly familiar with. I can use Word to write résumés and stuff but I know very little about it's advanced functions. As for Excel, I've done even less with it. I hope that most of the support issues will be around the custom software they said they would train me on. In the meantime, I'm going to spend a while tonight alternately lying in bed with my beloved's Office 2000 for Dummies book and sitting in front on my 'puter playing with said software. I have Office 2003; I hope it's similar enough. I'm worried too just because this would really be my first job in the industry and I'm not entirely sure what to expect. Does anyone with any EU support experience have an opinion?
I also am thinking about registering for the Microsoft 70-210 exam tomorrow morning before the skills assessment. They're both out in the same area, sort of. I'm feeling mostly confident with the 2KPro exam. I think there's probably no way I'll get all three out of the way before my Security classes start, but we'll see how things go. After a period of worrying about having not so much to do, my life may have started to get busy again. Be careful what you wish for, eh?
In other news, I found (but did not buy, much as I was tempted) an IBM compatible scanner. There are scanners in the thrift store all the time; what was so special about this one? It was built for use with an IBM AT. I was amazed. That must be like those Corvettes in the '50s that had fuel injection. Nobody had that. It was in great shape too. I was very tempted. Rather than a moving scanning element, it had a feed mechanism to draw individual sheets of paper through it. At first I thought it was a paper shredder. I was geeked. Andrea understood and even appreciated my reaction, for which I love her immensely. It is so good to be understood.
