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Okay folks I'm back on the interview circuit! Give me some key words and phrases

This always hits my self esteem and makes me feel like a turd but it is a necessary eveil when looking for a job.

There's no need for it to hit your self esteem, because all you're doing is looking at the job you do and how you manage to do it from the point of view of selling your capability in terms that a new employer will recognise.
 
No armoured pants, no picnics. I am wearing a suit and have my CV and references prepared and an idea of what to say. I look good and professional and I know I am capable. I just need to fine tune some of my personality traits: tempr, tolerance. But they aint goona find that out til I finish the probationary period in the job!
 
I'm surprised nobody has asked...

What would you consider your strengths and weakness to be?

It's the questions I most hate, don't want to sound big headed and don't want to tell them about massive personality defects.
 
I'm surprised nobody has asked...

What would you consider your strengths and weakness to be?

It's the questions I most hate, don't want to sound big headed and don't want to tell them about massive personality defects.

Strengths: Attentional to detail

Weaknesses: Perfectionism.

Try not to smirk!:D
 
I am a fairly laid back kind of person and quite down to earth. Sometimes that comes across to the wrong people as an unfamiliar personality trait. I find the whole interviewing thing ok, I have a thicker skin than say 5 years ago, now I see it as a competition wheras before I saw it as more begging.

I am feeling good and am primed to go!

Is this what you say at the beginning on an interview?
 
Well, came back. It was an interview with an agency, so registering (should have been more up front!). Nayway, I had been there before last year and there was something nagging at me as to why I didn't remeber it fondly. Then it struck! They recruit for the mob that tried to sack me but eventually had to settle with a compromise agrement. Very underhanded company and the agency disclosed to methey have recently made folk redundant and some were not paid their full redundancy, had to take a pay cut redundancy. Anyway, the bloke who made my 'agreed reference' will remember me well. I am not expecting much but I got the ball rolling and that's the main thing!

Satand back everyone, it's the march of Upchuck.
 
Well, came back. It was an interview with an agency, so registering (should have been more up front!). Nayway, I had been there before last year and there was something nagging at me as to why I didn't remeber it fondly. Then it struck! They recruit for the mob that tried to sack me but eventually had to settle with a compromise agrement. Very underhanded company and the agency disclosed to methey have recently made folk redundant and some were not paid their full redundancy, had to take a pay cut redundancy. Anyway, the bloke who made my 'agreed reference' will remember me well. I am not expecting much but I got the ball rolling and that's the main thing!

Satand back everyone, it's the march of Upchuck.

You didn't remember that they were a party to the compromise agreement!!!

FACEPALM

:D:D:D
 
You didn't remember that they were a party to the compromise agreement!!!

FACEPALM

:D:D:D

It was the agency. They recurit for the mob who tried to shaft me. Either way, I have nothing to be ashamed of in that incident. I left on a compromise agreement. It's not like I was, um, sacked :D
 
Well, came back. It was an interview with an agency, so registering (should have been more up front!). Nayway, I had been there before last year and there was something nagging at me as to why I didn't remeber it fondly. Then it struck! They recruit for the mob that tried to sack me but eventually had to settle with a compromise agrement. Very underhanded company and the agency disclosed to methey have recently made folk redundant and some were not paid their full redundancy, had to take a pay cut redundancy. Anyway, the bloke who made my 'agreed reference' will remember me well. I am not expecting much but I got the ball rolling and that's the main thing!

Satand back everyone, it's the march of Upchuck.

Well I thought fuck it! When the agency check with the mob that gave me the compromise agreement things wont go far as the HR guy ended up looking like a twat at the end of it all.

Soooo....The agency disclosed when I met them yesterday who the company were who had the job so I have applied to them directly :D
 
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