Getting back into the routine of everyday blogging, it makes no sense to block blog activity until I’m ready to do the holiday post, that way leads to never blogging again :-)

Anyway, I just had a first round telephone interview with International Consultation MegaCorp Accenture. They are recruiting a fairly large number of software people to work on big projects within their technology services department (I think).

The questions focussed on my goals, they asked why I applied, as expected, but also a bit about why I might want to leave freelance and stuff. I answered all this pretty easily. They have big projects, I want to be part of a big software project team. The tricksy one was a question about mobility. The initial form had mentioned this and had ticked the equivalent of “Mobile? Of course!” But then she asked what I thought they meant. It was either going to be mobile within London, nationally or internationally and I gave her my views on each of them. I said I was happy to do international and local travel and I didn’t rule out national travel completely, although I did imply that I wasn’t raring to spend 3 months working in Newcastle or something like that.

As I get older it is easier to tell where my weaknesses lie. In this situation it’s going to be the travel thing, though it’s difficult to say what the competition will be like there. Also, they may well just think that I don’t have enough experience for the role. My paper experience is not great, I feel it doesn’t reflect the breadth and depth of my skills as a software engineer. I know I’m not the best, but I think I’m good enough to put my foot in the door and keep it there on a big project. My focus for my next career move is definitely to find something that will look good on paper and Accenture is nothing if not that.