The way I see this world :-)

Yesterday was a very important and cool day. Even the atmosphere was you know like before holiday, but let's go point-by-point.

1) Yesterday our EUR IT Leader came - Kokot Zeljko, who is responsible for IT over whole Europe region and at the same time he is my second line manager after Alex. He is a amazing person. His voice complete fits to his appearance and his "internal world". =) It's a real positive in real man. He isn't tall enough and bald. :-) It was extrim pleasant to meet him personally, cause I've first know him since my 3rd part of the interview process on end of January 2007 and he was the final decisioned making person.

2) So, as I've told you before, yesterday was a day when we'll make a decision about my future in this company. What can I say? I'm in!!! =) The decision is so: Starting January 1st 2008 I will prolong my contract for half-year with increased salary for xx% and work day to 8 hours + paid overtimes. And starting 1st of June I'll become a full-time employer. It was made with my agreement, because we still don't know what will be in half-year. We are planning to re-organize people, structure, responsibilities and so on. Probably Alex will support Kiev office at full time, may be we will support it together...so still no vision how it will be. Salary is fine for me, tasks and responsibilities too, so everyone happy. Also I've been provided with a NY bonus - xxx EUR to my salary.

3) Also we have a decision about my feedback, summary of my performance and so on.. The scared me in the beginning. They were sitting with a stone faces and gave me a printout with graph where all parameters were around 2...and scale was from 0 to 5...I thought I'm dead :-) But then they explained me what it is: no one takes 0 (zero) =), 5 - means that you are complete foul :-) 4 - you're doing bad, 3 - perfect match - your doing what BCG expect from you. The best place to be.. 2 - is like 3 but there is lots of pro activity and so on, so you're doing great and can relax a bit :-) 1 - is you're doing like god and no way to grow...that's the bad place to be, cause people can handle it for 2 years max and then they are so tired that cannot work any more here... So I've got 2 and that's great! After that I read comments from people about my work - was a bit good surprised..

4) At evening time we went to the restaurant "Na Melnitse"...nice place, there was lots of jokes, we were talking a lot and spend evening great. In close future I will meet personally every IT guy I talk to in every day work :-) It's the way the team work in BCG. Zeljko promised.

So, in summary: Everything is more then great with job! I'm happy. A bit pity that work is just a part of life, cause over wise I'll be totally happy...

P.S. I just want to thank Alexander from HeadHunter.ru team who helped me in decision to send my CV to The Boston Consulting Group Moscow Limited and for his support during the 2 week interview process! THANK YOU!

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Please correct me if there are any way to improve my language, cause it's a really big post you know :-)