After a week or two of settling in, I started looking for a job in earnest. One of the major local papers, the Cairns Post, includes Career One’s job listings for the area, and I’d been perusing the Career One website since before we left. I’d tried applying for a traineeship at the Cairns Courthouse, but didn’t hear back, so two Tuesdays ago I went for an interview at one of the local corporate recruiting firms. My big goal at the moment is to get something similar to the administrative work I was doing at EDS, but it looks as though that’s not likely at the moment, as Precruitment hasn’t called me since the interview (I did make a follow-up call myself last Tuesday and will again the day after tomorrow).

A day after my Precruitment interview, I got a phone call from the Courthouse; it turns out that, while I didn’t make it to their short-list for the traineeships, I was being considered for some temp work. I went in for an interview two Thursdays ago; things seemed to go well and I was told they’d be making their decision this Friday gone. I’ve not heard, so it looks like I missed out there, but we’ll see.

Speaking of this Friday gone, I also went for an interview at another employment firm. I went in, handed in my resume and was given some forms to fill out, and as soon as I was done, I was told one of their officers had a temporary job they reckoned I’d be a good fit for! We spoke about it; it’s call centre work, but it pays well, and it’s a foot in the door of an organisation, not to mention local experience. The officer said she should get back to me on Monday, and if things went well, I’d have an interview on Wednesday and with any luck be working by Monday week!

There are also a couple of TAFE jobs that look very interesting, one of which looks to be a good fit for my skills and pays pretty darned well. I have to phone them up about the position, and will do so tomorrow. Here’s hoping…