My hands are still shaking while I announce that I just got a phone
call from Google Ireland Ltd. The lady, a Recruitment Coordinator of
Google Ireland, told me that I had passed a test that I had submitted
two days ago. I had expected an e-mail as response, so I was shocked to
get a phone call, and so swiftly.
There will be a real job
interview with another recruitment officer on Tuesday October 10, 2006.
Cross your fingers for me between 12:30 and 13:00 Central European
Time! This will be my 5th job interview since I reported myself to the dole in 1999, and the third such interview since summer 2005.
Apparently,
this will be the third phase of application for the job as Google
Online Sales and Operations Coordinator at the EU Headquarters. Phase
one was the letter of application which I filled in on-line in
September 2006. Second one was the worksheet test submitted in the
early morning hours of Monday October 2.
Looking back at the
worksheet, I keep noticing all kinds of mistyping, but I presume that I
did prove my knowledge about the matters — advertising, dealing with
customers according to company internal policy, writing skills, and
technical questions.
If
I have luck, I will be employed in Google Ireland to deal with European
operations as Online Sales and Operations Coordinator. Google in
Ireland has 700 employees. I am looking forwards to twist my tongue
into the Irish variety of English. And to add Irish as the first member
of the Celtic group to my fond of languages. The very internet
extension of Ireland is .ie
and is a clear reminder to any linguist of the importance of Irish to Indo-European linguistics. We all know the abbreviation *ie. for the reconstructed ancient Indo-European proto-language.
Google
was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It has over 5,000
employees worldwide. Its chief product is its free on-line search
machine that can carry out queries on the Internet in an instant. The
searches are famous for their relevance, speed, and reliability. There
are even courses offered in Denmark for corporate advertisers on how to
optimise Google search results.
Like most other search
providers, Google also offers advertising — AdWords and AdSense — which
usually appears as discrete textual highlights on the web pages.
The name Google is derived from googol, is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros (i.e., 10100). The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination
by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the
company's mission to organize the immense amount of information
available on the web (q.f. 1 followed by 100 zeros.)
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