Started to fill in a job application form that quite quickly got a bit weird . . . (by my standards anyway . . . but then it HAS been a while since I had to apply for a job)

Name – OK
D.O.B – OK
Place of birth – OK . . .

Time of Birth – ???? oooooookay

Left or right handed – hmmm OK.

Please write by hand, in blue pen, and then scan and attach to this email, a paragraph stating why you feel you would be good for this job role? (I assumed that this was to prove that I could actually write on a piece of paper with a real ink pen)

Please enclose 4 photo’s one from each side, one from front and one “isometric” . . . . (the job isn’t for “MALE MODEL” btw)

And then the authorisation at the bottom of the form which says . . .

“I hereby authorize the Superior Institute of Morpho-psychology, S. L (ISM), to carry out a morfo-graphological study of the 4 photographs and handwritten letter that I have been asked to supply.”

run far. run fast.

fill in the paragraph by cutting letters out of magazines, 70s serial killer stylee

Everything about that screams ‘do not apply for this job, we are a bunch of nobbers’

WTF kind of job have you applied for?

I’d still apply, but send in random photos and write in crayon

Come on, you need to tell us who it’s with and what the job is!

lol turn a “Ransom Demand” into a Job Demand? That might work!

3 photos of you and then a totally different 4th photo…

Write the letter in blood.

Send photos of a jackal.

Of course, the alternative view is this gives you lots of scope to mess with them, as others have mentioned. Just make sure you don’t do anything that will have the authorities knocking at your door in the middle of the night.

C’mon: Name and shame.

3 photos of me and a photo of the back of a Labrador?

Please enclose 4 photo’s one from each side, one from front and one “isometric”

Naked, obvs.

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D.O.B – OK

nope

“Naked, obvs. “

Obvs. But Happy or Sad? 😉

good point, I’m not sure you are allowed to ask that for an interview in the UK

edit: DOB that is, not the naked thing

Date, place and time of birth is obviously so they can get an astrological chart made up.

Tell them you were born in Rome at 6am on 6th June.

Yep. I’d want to do it out of curiosity.

“Isometric?”

They clearly want someone used to measuring things using centimetres and not inches…..

I suggest a photo of you, naked measuring your tadger with a ruler whilst screaming “I SOOOOO000000000000 METRIC!”

I think the obvious answer here is to fill out the form properly, if I decide to proceed (I’ll sleep on it now).

But . . .. If I get the job, at some point in the future fire off a dozen anonymous applications with all of the above and see what happens “from the inside”.

But Happy or Sad?

Isometric – so about 30 degrees

I’m liking your thinking.

I’m assuming the job is in Spain – but I’d have thought similar rules applied.

3 photos of me and a photo of the back of a Labrador?

Are you from Hartcliffe?

UK company I think this would be illegal under discrimination laws – you can’t even ask for a date of birth on a job application unless it has a component that relies on age ie selling alcohol or similar!

No, you need to apply perspective compensation for that image.

I think the obvious answer here is to fill out the form properly

I think the obvious answer is we all fill out applications

Could have so much fun with this . . . . .

Yeah – job is in Spain, local to us. Customer Care – they need someone who speaks English (better than they do) to liaise with international customers.

I don’t particularly object to the questions on principal, although I don’t go for the whole “Astrological” thing myself. The work would certainly be handy. Tomorrow I’ll be putting some details re our progress, including this, on my “Spanish Pyrenees” thread . . .

I miss Terry Nutkins

perchypanther – Member
Write the letter in blood.

Send photos of a jackal

Ain’t gettin no photos of me.