Brisbane really is a small town.
It hasn't taken long for word to start to spread that we're all looking for work. There are messages on forums and lists, emails and phone calls from recruiters and referees, and just anyone who knows of someone looking for staff.
I've never seen anything like it.
The really cool thing is that everyone's been very sharing with the job details. We look concurrently through seek and mention anything that sounds interesting whether we're thinking of applying or not. We've been printing out resumes and offering comments and ideas. And we've been passing each others details around from time to time.
One of my referees rang me on Wednesday morning looking for my resume for a job over at Flight Centre. Another friend of mine IM'd me about the same job around about the same time. After passing my details along I'd lined up an interview by lunchtime on Wednesday, barely 24 hours after the redundancy news officially broke. I've been for two interviews in the last 24 hours and have one concrete job offer and the offer of a transfer rather than a redundancy.
It's all very crazy.
