I Passed
I know I haven't talked about it much but so far the new job is going fine. To be honest, I'm a little leery about blogging my job stuff, since I never know who might read it. That's the reason when I posted about the job in the first place I didn't say the name of the company or the name of the contract, and for anyone who does know, I'd appreciate if you didn't either.
As far as the job goes, for the moment thought there isn't much to tell. We have a 5 week training course to complete and then "The Big Test". So after 4 and a half weeks of training, we did our final assessment today (never mind we still have some things to cover yet) and then after this week, 4 weeks of transitional training to do after we're done. I *think* our schedule will change slightly though, from 7 am to 8am start time, which is fine by me. It'll feel like I got to sleep in for at least a week before I get used to it. It sure will be nice to be able to stay up until 11 again. This 10pm bedtime is for the birds I have to tell you! It makes it hard to stay up or sleep in on the weekends when I can. You have no idea (or maybe you do) how annoying it is to wake up at 9 am on a Saturday morning and be unable to go to sleep.
Anyway, back to "The Big Test" I wasn't particularly worried about the test in the first place. I don't usually get test anxiety. I don't freak out if I don't get a perfect score, though it's nice. Right now I guess I'm about the top of my class. Until yesterday, I had 100% on all my small assessments. Yesterday I made up a test I missed last Friday because I went home sick for three hours. Unfortunately I DID miss one of those questions. I learned later that that question, I answered correctly according to our documentation, but that the test doesn't know the answer has changed. Apparently had I been there to take the test with the rest of the class, I would have been given the answer along with the rest of the class, but I wasn't so I missed it and scored a 90% on that one.
Anyway, so everyone spent the morning winding up or revving up for the test we knew we were going to spend the rest of the day after lunch taking. As I said, I wasn't particularly worried about it. I felt I knew how to find the answers. See .. .the test isn't so much a test of remembering every detail, but of knowing how to access your tools to find the information you need as you work with a customer. The information can change from day to day, so the emphasis is on making sure you're using your tools correctly and getting the information out of the system rather than your brain. I can do that. I had good confidence in that, so I wasn't worried. I knew I would pass easily, and in fact finished my test before the majority of the class. I think maybe 7 or 8 had signed the score card before I did, and (don't take this as bragging, ne? I'm not. It's just an observation, and in fact some of them if they had taken just a bit more time might have matched me too) I scored higher than any of them.
What did surprise me was when I clicked the 'finish' button and my score loaded.
100%
So I guess they might keep me on for transitional training now. ^_^ This is a good thing.
As far as the job goes, for the moment thought there isn't much to tell. We have a 5 week training course to complete and then "The Big Test". So after 4 and a half weeks of training, we did our final assessment today (never mind we still have some things to cover yet) and then after this week, 4 weeks of transitional training to do after we're done. I *think* our schedule will change slightly though, from 7 am to 8am start time, which is fine by me. It'll feel like I got to sleep in for at least a week before I get used to it. It sure will be nice to be able to stay up until 11 again. This 10pm bedtime is for the birds I have to tell you! It makes it hard to stay up or sleep in on the weekends when I can. You have no idea (or maybe you do) how annoying it is to wake up at 9 am on a Saturday morning and be unable to go to sleep.
Anyway, back to "The Big Test" I wasn't particularly worried about the test in the first place. I don't usually get test anxiety. I don't freak out if I don't get a perfect score, though it's nice. Right now I guess I'm about the top of my class. Until yesterday, I had 100% on all my small assessments. Yesterday I made up a test I missed last Friday because I went home sick for three hours. Unfortunately I DID miss one of those questions. I learned later that that question, I answered correctly according to our documentation, but that the test doesn't know the answer has changed. Apparently had I been there to take the test with the rest of the class, I would have been given the answer along with the rest of the class, but I wasn't so I missed it and scored a 90% on that one.
Anyway, so everyone spent the morning winding up or revving up for the test we knew we were going to spend the rest of the day after lunch taking. As I said, I wasn't particularly worried about it. I felt I knew how to find the answers. See .. .the test isn't so much a test of remembering every detail, but of knowing how to access your tools to find the information you need as you work with a customer. The information can change from day to day, so the emphasis is on making sure you're using your tools correctly and getting the information out of the system rather than your brain. I can do that. I had good confidence in that, so I wasn't worried. I knew I would pass easily, and in fact finished my test before the majority of the class. I think maybe 7 or 8 had signed the score card before I did, and (don't take this as bragging, ne? I'm not. It's just an observation, and in fact some of them if they had taken just a bit more time might have matched me too) I scored higher than any of them.
What did surprise me was when I clicked the 'finish' button and my score loaded.
100%
So I guess they might keep me on for transitional training now. ^_^ This is a good thing.