This week has been a good week for me and all my hard work at job searching seems to be paying off. I have had four job related enquiries. Not job offers but more along the lines of ‘we have this job and want to talk to you further’ type thing. Obviously while this is great it does put me in a tricky spot as I do not want to pursue or even accept the wrong job. Luckily however I am planning to utilise the Slow Communication Technique, also known as SCT.

The main components of this technique are:

a) slow communication – that is respond at your leisure, sometimes even weeks after the initial enquiry

b)don’t answer anything fully if even at all

Cloggies are brilliant at this. Basically you get an email – read it, read it again and resist the urge to answer. It’s not rude they won’t even notice. A day or so later respond to the email. However do not answer any questions they ask or at most only one and make sure that the whole situation is left very unclear and needs further communication. Obviously further communication is also done via the SCT.

Before I understood SCT I got very nervous when appointments weren’t sorted out until minutes before I needed to leave to get there on time. However now I plan to beat the Cloggies at their own game and utilise it to my best advantage!

Off to complete some manipulating….

Cloggie In Training