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So...who else is looking for a new job?

I have an interview on Monday morning - which will kinda screw up my weekend preparing for it, and I doubt I'll land the job anyway, but if you don't try you don't get...

Fucking hate interviews - it's the whole phonyness of the process I can't stand. And you usually can tell almost as soon as you sit down whether you've got a chance, just by looking at the sort of people sitting across the table from you. But hey, what can you do?
 
MrFalafel said:
The effort to job hunt when you already have a job is to: 1) spend an hour a week looking through a few job websites 2) Sending your CV to any jobs that look interesting 3) Responding to interview requests. I don't see that as a hugely time consuming task myself.
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You must be joking. I don't know what sort of jobs you look for, but every job I'm interested in wants much more than just a CV. They want a covering letter at the very least, and usually there's a competency-based form to complete (and they are usually different enough that you can't just cut and paste from other applications you've done). And then if you get an interview you might be asked to do a presentation for it, so you have to work on that, as well as trying to anticipate the questions you might get asked (and then there might be a second interview, and even psychometric tests!). And then after all that you have an excruciating wait to know the result. And then if you don't get the job, you spend about a week feeling pissed off and wondering where you went wrong and what you could have done better. The whole things a head-fuck. And a very time consuming one too.
 
Dr. Furface said:
You must be joking. I don't know what sort of jobs you look for, but every job I'm interested in wants much more than just a CV. They want a covering letter at the very least, and usually there's a competency-based form to complete (and they are usually different enough that you can't just cut and paste from other applications you've done). And then if you get an interview you might be asked to do a presentation for it, so you have to work on that, as well as trying to anticipate the questions you might get asked (and then there might be a second interview, and even psychometric tests!). And then after all that you have an excruciating wait to know the result. And then if you don't get the job, you spend about a week feeling pissed off and wondering where you went wrong and what you could have done better. The whole things a head-fuck. And a very time consuming one too.
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Wow I don't need to do any of that in my industry. No cover letters and no forms to fill out. Anticipating questions is a bit silly as you should know your stuff priort to applying for the job. Also, with practice, all of things you've described become much easier. After you go on half a dozen interviews for similar positions you'll know all of the questions they're going to ask and you'll have practiced your answers getting better at each interview.

And just think how much fun you'll have when you turn down a job offer as 'not good enough'. Do you think the HR people will spend a week feeling pissed off after that?
 
MrFalafel said:
Wow I don't need to do any of that in my industry. No cover letters and no forms to fill out. Anticipating questions is a bit silly as you should know your stuff priort to applying for the job. Also, with practice, all of things you've described become much easier. After you go on half a dozen interviews for similar positions you'll know all of the questions they're going to ask and you'll have practiced your answers getting better at each interview.
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You're a right know-it-all aren't you? With that and your patronising attitude, clearly you'll go far.
 
imaginationdead said:
I've just been turned down for a job I had an interview for last week :(

Usually I get told I haven't got enough experience when I'm turned down for jobs (when I know I could do the job with my eyes closed, experienced or no). This time I was told I was a bit too good for the job and wouldn't be stimulated enough in the position! :rolleyes:

I Can't win!
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I get this a lot. :mad:

'You don't want this job, you'd hate it!'
I'd prefer a boring job to unemployment:confused:
 
I took some advice and volunteered for a locally based environmental charity. First day today, ace job (if you can call it a job when you don't get paid :confused:). I can see myself learning loads plus they're looking for a part-time paid admin bod - <crosses fingers> :D
 
Hmmm.....dilemma -
Job at mo bores me to tears altho ppl I work with are lovely. Pay is beyond SHIT. Been offered a months work somewhere (done job ebfore, like it, am good at it) for double what i get now. Possibly get more work with this agency again too. Just nothing regular prob...
So if I take it I will have about 3 months from now to get another longer term job. Eek...scary....
Shall I jump in?
 
_pH_ said:
I have found a job i am going to apply for. Working from home, flexible hours, travelling around to look at trees to say 'Oh that's nice' or 'FELL IT!!! :mad: '

Wish me luck please! :)
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I think I'd quite like this job :) Sounds like the sorta thing me dad used to do

Going to have to look for my first 'proper' job out of Uni soon... :cool:
 
I have emailed applications for 2 jobs today (and sent another email about freelance work) so am feeling a bit happier about things employment related :)

One of the jobs included in the list of benefits:

job wot i applied for said:
many company parties, free chocolate biscuits and lots of other things that we cannot remember
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WANT!!11!!ONE

:cool: :cool:
 
started to look, there are changes here that i'm not too happy about, so i'm starting to look about to see what's out there
 
i haven't heard back from that job i applied for. it said that interviews were going to be held next week so i imagine i would have heard by now if they were interested :(

haven't seen anything else that i want really. still, gonna keep looking :cool:
 
I've got an pre-interview with an agency today, with a particular vacancy in mind. It sounds good, although the money could be better. Tricky part is, I moved house yesterday so everything is still in boxes, I have a stinky cold and hoarse voice, no internet access at home so communications are less than ideal. Ho Hum.
 
My contract ends at the end of the academic year, I don't know if I want to come back to this part of Portugal. I think I might fancy moving further south, so I'm having a look around.
 
Another I'm-So-Stuck-In-A-Rut-And-Need-To-Get-Out person. Unfortunately I'm dealing with quite a few other issues in my life at the moment as well, so actually being able to hold down a job, even one I don't like, is a bonus. Once step at a time. Told them in my last appraisal that I wasn't happy and didn't see any sort of career path where I am, what they told me was that I was really good at what I do, but no, nothing doing. Ho hum.
 
Grr the agencies plague you with phone calls - 9:17am this morning! This is SLEEPING time for the unemployed person :mad:
But... I'm completing an application form for a pretty cool job right now. It's funny, at first glance the job descriptions always seem so scary, but then, if I listed all my activities and job description from my last job & presented it to me 1.5 years ago, I would have been terrified! :)
 
I,m defo looking for a new job, my powercrazed gaffa fired a women off last week for doing something with a student that she herself has done, she also thinks that I am going to drive round in the works van with a defective tyre, she can kiss my sticky out northern Arse.
 
Been given an 'initial conversation' with the employer after the pre-interview with the agency. One of three candidates apparently.
 
I'm looking for a new job. Am handicapped by the fact that I am working in an unskilled job, am over 40 and lazy.
 
i've been out of work for 2 weeks but start a new job in march, when i phoned up jobseekers just to get some money for febuary they said the first appointment is 23rd of febuary. i've been paying tax and n.i since i was 17 i'm 32 now never claimed before, and they have the cheek to tell me i'll have to wait til the end of the month. it's a joke and a unfair system if you ask me.
 
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