"Well, you smiled! "Clemence[1], unemployed" ---- Tuesday morning 9am. After receiving two
invitations to two different dates and opted for the first, I headed "my" P?le emploi,
stuck in the middle of an industrial area. I arrived in the lobby, and after waiting a
quarter of an hour, a lady greets me and asks me if I brought my "small identity card".
Not being my first appointment, I did not think to bring. I explained that I did not but I
have my call and my card P?le emploi. She wants nothing to do and requires my identity
card, "otherwise, we can do nothing". She suggested that I go home, I explained to him
that I might miss my appointment. She replies that it is not serious and that I will have
to wait until my counselor is available again for having me later in the morning. And as I
am unemployed, I have nothing else to do of course. Half an hour later I'm back with my
little identity card. She rummages through his papers and finds that, indeed, she did not
need since I do not was my first appointment only.
So I sit on a chair to wait for "my" counselor. She finally arrives and invites me into
his office. I explain why I'm late, she does not care and made me realize that all this
would have been easier if I had had on me my identity card. The appointment is a real
torture. My resume is very bad. Look at this presentation she said. And this picture then,
that as nothing to put it. Frankly, I see that I do not call you, she connects. I also
learn that sending applications it serves no purpose except to feel good and that the most
important thing is to get interviews! Even if there is no offer I asked? Yes, even if
there is no offer. I lack choked when trying to send me forcing techniques worthy of VRP
most clumsy who worked for her so she does not see why they would not work for me.
At the end of the interview, she looks at me and says "Hey, you mouse! Not because from
the beginning you do not smile at all. You know, it is very important to smile at a first
meeting, the first contact is very important! ". A few days later, I receive an e-mail
telling me that because of my absence to visit last Tuesday, I risked radiation.
[1] Only the name is changed, the rest is authentic
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