Tuesday, April 11, 2006

roaches

So, I got a job... after about 4 months of being rejected by BYU employers, I decided to go to Convergys. I went in to apply, and one of the projects they were hiring for was Roche (which, i have been told, is the best project to work on. The "elite" of convergys... you actually have to have some college in order to be considered!) So I applied and was interviewed over the phone a few days later. Unfortunately, training was from 1-10, and all of my classes for the semester started at 1, so I couldn't do it. They told me that I was exactly what they were looking for, though, and that they wanted me to reapply when it would fit my schedule. So, I called a week or so ago, and got no reply... I emailed and sent my resume in again and still got no reply. Well yesterday, I had to pick frik up from work, so I decided to go next door and see when they would be hiring again. Turns out they were hiring this week, to start on May 8th. So they set me up with an interview. It went so good... Every question that the interviewer asked me, I had a good answer for, and after I gave each of my answers, he kept saying, "that's just great, perfect, wonderful example... etc, etc..." At the end of the interview (which took almost an hour and a half) he said, "Even though you haven't had a lot of medical experience, let me tell you why I want to hire you". Then he went on for about 10 minutes listing how great of an employee i would be and all this wonderful stuff about me... quite the ego boost. And then he offered me the job. It's funny how different I felt today, just knowing that I have a job. (soon). In "Dave" (the president movie) Dave says something along the lines of the look on someones face when the have a job is irreplacable, and it's not about the money, but it's about having some worth... something like that. I've been without a job for a while, and I didn't really think it'd be a big difference, but I really think it will be now.


So a little more about the project that I lovingly call Roaches: We will be doing the inbound customer service for Accucheck (the company that makes diabetic meters). The people who call in, from what i hear, are usually quite pleasant and accucheck gives convergys quite a bit of authority. We can replace people's machines if we want to... That's about all I've gathered from it so far.


At first when I appled at Convergys, I felt like I was sinking to a new low... and I haven't started working yet, but I actually am excited to start. Probably because I'm not on Amex outbound... And the tuition reimbursement will be nice. :o) Not to mention that the starting wage is a couple $ more than on campus jobs... :o)


So that was my day today. I also made it to class on time. Oh: wacky random thing: I was driving down the main street over here the other day and I saw 2 llamas in front of someone's house... weird.

14 comments:

  1. congrats on the job.... weird on the llamas

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  2. CONGRATS ON THE JOB!!

    LOL - you know what's funny when I applied at Covergie's a long time ago. At the end of the interview they asked me if I had any other questions and I replied,
    "When do I start?"
    And the interviewer gave me a date and time. . . I never did that again.

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  3. When I applied at Convergys it was out of sheer desperation. it looked as though we'd be living in Scott's Mom's house forever. and Scott was getting really depressed about my pickiness of where to work. A lot of places wanted lots of experience.

    One day, Scott was just really sad. He didn't want to get out of bed, or anything. IT was the most depressed I had ever seen him. He said "you're never going to get a job and we'll always live here" we switch off being doom and gloom. I took it as a challenge. I showed him that he could count on me to do something I didn't want to in a pinch.

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  4. Congrats on the job. Although I wouldn't want to go back to it, I really enjoyed working in a call center for a while. As long as it's tech support or billing... I don't do sales.

    I also don't know if I've ever actually seen a llama...

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  5. yeah. It was so weird...

    And I won't be working sales, thankfully. and it's not quite tech support, but it is support for an electronic device! :)

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  6. I like Andrea's house. I think that besides Audrey, she is the winner, with the cobblestone path... :o)

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  7. You did tech support at a call center, Berserk?

    Congratulations Carolyn! Now you can join the ranks of family members who have worked at Convergys, including me. Three times. ;)

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  8. Dont forget me, I've been there twice. Never to return again *crosses fingers*

    Not that its a bad job, but I love my current job. In fact, enjoy it so much that I actually look forward to going to work most of the time.

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  9. Oh just admit it... it was a bad job.

    :)

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  10. I worked tech support at Dish Network. I was pretty damn good at it, too.

    The funny thing about Andrea's house is that she didn't notice the directions at the top of the screen until after she'd already drawn everything but the color.

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  11. heh! it was like that with me, too. I had done the path and the windows and the mailbox... then I clicked the next button and it told me to put on a door and I just thought, "what kind of house doesn't have a door..."

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  12. I noticed the directions... but I didn't really follow them...

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  13. apparently. I don't remember it saying, "Now draw a moat". :)

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  14. when I came to the direction 'now draw a window' I couldn't figure out where to put it... so I drew a moat instead...

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