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After a few months of searching, and a fair amount of frustration here in Glasgow, I’m pleased to report that Frances has not only one job offer, but two! She had two interviews over two days with two separate companies, returning from each with a beaming smile on her face.

Whilst we joked about the possibilities of two job offers, I don’t think either of us felt it would really come down to that. So she’s now stuck in the tricky position of having to decide which job to take. This is made doubly complicated by the excellent opportunities both jobs provide her with.

It’s also a huge relief to find that she can indeed escape from Finance. When your CV shows your only job experience is in an IT department in a large bank, it seems agents (particularly here in Glasgow), only read that as you wanting to continue working in Finance. Something Frances manifestly did not want, and made clear to them on repeated occasions. Not that they paid any attention to her.

So, which job for her now? It’s a very tough call, the only consolation of which is neither is a bad move. But it makes it even harder to make a decision, than if one was manifestly less appealing in some regard. As neither are, it’s down to the intangible things like colleagues, job prospects at a later point, resources available and so on.

And a cynical source of amusement to us both is that both jobs are essentially ‘direct applications’ to the organisations in question. Which just feels like the appropriate snub to the ineptness and institutionally encouraged hard-of-hearing affliction that appears to apply to recruitment agents here in Glasgow.

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