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by Ecio78 4763 days ago
Some of it might have been bad luck but I didn't really think any of it was. I knew that I was bad at interviewing. I just didn't realize how bad

I've been working for 8 years in three different companies: I found the first job (out of university) because a friend of mine worked there. The two following jobs were "found" because our manager moved and we (me, my friend and some others) move consequently as a team. I did some interviews during these years, never an offer. I really couldn't say if it was because of my salary (definitively above - italian sh###y - market) or because of me (my skills, my attitude, whatever). Of course Headhunters and HR are so kind not to give you any feedback (sometimes neither a response).

Now our last companies has failed, I'm unemployed and I've decided with my wife to relocate to Luxembourg where she can have a stable job (at least her..).

So here I am, unemployed and looking for a job[1] in another country (with the additional problem of the language: I'm a real novice in French, I don't speak German and my English should be far better..). I think that probably I'll discover which part of me was the problem...

[1] or coming back to university or learning coding (i'm more a sys/net engineer) or studying some online courses or trying to think if some startup ideas I have are feasible

1 comments

I could nitpick a couple of grammatical points, but your English is better than that of many native speakers I have worked with.

Unless you sweated over a dictionary for an hour to write the above comment, or your speaking is much worse, please make sure to market yourself as fluent in English!

Thank you for your kind words, could you tell me which grammatical points are incorrect so I can improve? Thanks!
Also the me should be an I, and listed after the others. Though to be honest, most people make the same mistake. Your English is at the level where you can pass off as a native from an English speaking country so I would not worry too much. Everyone has at least a few mistakes in almost everything they write.
thank you both, of course "companies/company" was just a distraction while "I/me" is due to the fact that many times in Italian you can swap them (maybe it's not perfectly correct in Italian too but for spoken language it's ok)
The only error worth mentioning is "last companies has failed". It must be either "company has failed" or "companies have failed".

Good luck!