Post-Christmas Normality and other short stories

It's a while since I entered anything in this blog. Since I did, Christmas has come and gone in its customary fashion. It was a great time - our younger daughter and her husband were with us, and we all piled down to Leicester to spend Christmas Day with our elder daughter, her husband and kids. 

Nothing has happened on the job front, but on Friday 2nd January I applied for an IT job in a well-known company situated in the wilds of Derbyshire. I sent the online application off, only to receive an email requesting that I click onto a link and supply more application details. So I did; I spent the best part of an hour carefully thinking about and measuring my responses - only to find in the end that the wretched browser had locked up. (It is Google Chrome, and a Beta version, so I suppose I shouldn't gripe). I sent an email to the recruitment people to let them know what had happened, and they kindly sent me an email containing all the questions I'd either answered or had yet to fill in. So I completed these and sent them off. I'm glad to say that the application has been not only received by the recruitment people, but also sent to the company in question. We'll see of anything materialises in the way of an interview..

Looking at the job pages, it's clear that the market is still in its pre-Christmas stasis. I'm sure that (to continue the metaphor) with the passage of time, everything will loosen up, and with a hard shove the logjam will be cleared.