alien
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 14:40:22 GMT
Apologies if a thread like this has already been posted somewhere but…
I got made redundant for the second time in under five years last autumn and have been looking for a permanent job since. I know it's easy to over-analyse stuff when you going through the processs of trying to find work/pressure of not having reliable income, etc, but I realised that, apart from my first few jobs (where it was a case of nod, smile and be enthusiastic to land the roles) I've had a rather convoluted means of securing my other roles.
This time around I've also been going for public sector or charity jobs, all of which come with lengthy box-filling application forms and competency-based interview questions. None of these are very friendly to my natural way of approaching an interview, which is to be informal and chatty, and I keep finding myself going off on tangents and also being overly conscious of finding examples of what an interviewer wants to hear for their blank boxes, so more less reserved personality doesn't come through at all and… GAH! really.
Rant over. Phew, I've been wanting to do that for a while.
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alien
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Post by alien on Mar 18, 2016 15:15:18 GMT
I post this here of course after failing for the third day in a row to complete a particular job application.
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merrial
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Post by merrial on Mar 20, 2016 7:58:25 GMT
I feel your pain!!! And I think this is probably why I have stayed working for the same company but in various internal roles for so long. I am always thinking about leaving. Thinking about filling in that application form I requested. It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I know I don't come across at all well in interviews. I repeat myself get lost in remembering things that I thought about. And under pressure the chances are that I will just space off because I have lost my train of thought. I went for a managers post once and they asked me several times what their internal Audit team were called, of course I knew. But at that moment my brain just stopped it seemed I said Urm a lot!! When it was over and I had managed to come across as probably some sort of cabbage brain, I hated myself. I think there is now a part of the application which ask if you have a disability. Can you fill this in and perhaps they will make allowances for your ADHD
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Endymion
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Post by Endymion on Mar 20, 2016 17:36:26 GMT
Join a job agency and get them to fill in your applications for you once they have taken your information and details down.
There are usually a number of job agencies that will cover the areas you want to work in.
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alien
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Post by alien on Mar 22, 2016 11:41:15 GMT
Thanks.
I was just letting off some steam. I'm so sick of application forms – mainly looking for charity or government work, which come in stacks rather than sheaths of paperwork and formal interview processes. I'll get there.
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