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16 posts & 14 voices | Started 2 years ago by kenneththecurtain | Latest reply from deus

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kenneththecurtain - Member

Well, having put it off for long enough it's become apparent I need to find a job. Graduate from uni at the end of this year and don't have a scoob what I want to do.

Anyone else get really annoyed by those daft questions the applications all seem to have?

'Describe in 5 million words how you displayed great teamwork/organisation/time management, etc, etc, bollocks.'

I'm having a hard time displaying a will to live after reading a few of these bad boys, let alone any evidence of resource management prowess. It's like they want me to just give up and work in Halfords for the rest of my life...

Posted 2 years ago #
CaptainFlashheart - Member

Anyone else get really annoyed by those daft questions the applications all seem to have?

Wait until interviews...

Best I ever heard was "Tell me ten things you would do with a concrete hedgehog"

Posted 2 years ago #
Mr Agreeable - Member

One that I'm assured was genuine:

"Tell us how you used you initiative to solve a challenge?"

"I moved my alarm clock to the other side of the room so I have to get up to turn it off"

Posted 2 years ago #
flip - Member

You studied for 3 yrs at uni and don't know what you want to do?

Posted 2 years ago #
mboy - Member

Just to cheer you up, there's a recession on at the mo don't you know... No jobs available anywhere except halfords and maccy d's it would seem!

Seriously though, this time of year is rubbish to be job hunting as I'm learning yet again. Nobody wants to recruit around Christmas!

Posted 2 years ago #
Swalsey - Member

I was there a year ago - the people that go through the pain of hunting a job out are much happier at this moment in time

Posted 2 years ago #
Nico - Member

I can think of one thing to do with a concrete hedgehog. Ten things if there are ten interviewers.

Posted 2 years ago #
project - Member

Jobhunting: Pain in the ass

thought this was a thread about male prostitution,3 years in uni,what did you bother waste your time for,and our money if you have no idea what you wanted to do when you started the course,you may well have stopped somebody from getting on your course,bet it was Applied Trolling.

Posted 2 years ago #
kenneththecurtain - Member

Oooh touchy! 4 years mate. And its mechanical engineering, a chronically undersubscribed course, so I doubt I nabbed anyone else's place. And I wasted my time (and YOUR money, oh how that must sting) 'cos graduates make more cash-money, in general.

Roflcopter at the alarm clock thing, might fire that into one of the applications I'm even less interested in than the others!

Posted 2 years ago #
mrmo - Member

had an interview for a job within group yesterday, this is the site my employer is relocating to so the HR person was fully aware of my background.

, question, what is the hardest thing you have done related to work, answer, maintain motivation for 10 months knowing you are going to be made redundant.

the HR person was a little apologetic, for asking what they themselves described as a stupid question.

Worst thing, i won't know the outcome until mid January.

Posted 2 years ago #
project - Member

Mechanical engineering and you dont know what to do,while most engineering has disapeared in this country,from being a heavy engineering coutry,there are plenty of oportunities in the Nuclear feild,and also part time work advertising Ready Brek,where the kids glow all over.

As for stupid questions, was working part time driving a van, and applied to be full time,got asked "If you died today what do you think your work collegues would say about you tomorrow"

Posted 2 years ago #
Trimix - Member

Its shite - I know. But the jobs will go to the well prepared and persistant.

There are loads of web sites to help with shite questions as well.

Posted 2 years ago #
Flaperon - Member

You fly with Ryanair, chances are one of your pilots is paying the company for the privilege of flying for them. Seriously.

Everyone's in the same boat with jobs at the moment. I have a physics degree and drive vans for a living.

Posted 2 years ago #
jonb - Member

They were shite. I remember doing a fair few. The interviews were much much worse!

Most memorable moments were:-

-Being asked to discipline a member of staff (played by an actor)
-Being taken to a restaurant followed by a bar and given an envelope on the way home in the taxi that instructed us on the presentation to give the next day.
-Being asked to do things in a time limit that was clearly half that needed to see how you could perform under pressure and think on your feet.
-Work with some complete numpties in group challenges-
-If we asked your friends what would they say the worst three aspects of your character were.
-Being asked (deliberately) questions that were intended to cause a strong reaction or offence to see how you cope. Or generally being pressurised and told you were wrong to see what you did.

If you think the questions are annoying, start brushing up on your presentation skills, I normally gave a minimum of two during any interview stage. Good preparation in the questions now will help you later, there's only a limited number of variations they come up with and you get better with practice.

Posted 2 years ago #
miaowing_kat - Member

the jobs will go to the well prepared and persistant.

that's you screwed then kenneth...

Posted 2 years ago #
deus - Member

if you can't find a job as a mechanical engineer, you're just not trying , there are far worse professions out there that you need a degree for.

have you tried looking at oil offshore type jobs?

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