Hey folks. A little situation I’m currently going through at work. Just need to vent…
I applied for a specialist role a few weeks ago with my current employer. Been there for eight years and in my current role for five. Always had good yearly reviews and consider myself pretty good my job.
The business is currently going through a restructure and letting a lot of people go via redundancy. My team hasn’t been specifically targeted yet but I think that will come by the end of the year. We have about 8-9 data entry type roles and are consolidating our systems, so once that’s done I figure they’ll cut that to 4-5.
I have no interest in reapplying for my current role (sr data officer). The main area I work in is SAP and they have let so many SAP specialists go that I can see it being a nightmare working in this area for possibly a few years. It’s been a struggle for a while already tbh.
The role I applied for is in the GIS area (closely aligned yo ours) which I find much more interesting and the team a lot more capable of managing and improving the application.
So I got an interview and, as I don’t have a GIS background, struggled with some of the technical questions. Overall the interview probably didn’t go fantastically but I was more relying on my previous performance, ability, and work history with the hiring manager (we have worked together on other projects).
So nearly three weeks go by and just got told I’ve progressed to a second interview. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad it wasn’t a straight up no, but can’t for the life of me imagine why they want to put me through a second interview. I haven’t time travelled back and gained some qualification they aren’t aware of, or a significant amount of work experience I hadn’t told them about. I’m just stumped. I did ask HR what the interview format would be but haven’t heard back yet so maybe they’ll give me some details before hand.
Anyway that’s where I’m at. If I get the job, great. It’s much more interesting work and a change of manager would be very welcome. But if I don’t get it, it’ll feel pretty good to say I’d take a redundancy sooner rather than later and they can sort the mess out themselves.