What I want to know is, when you're applying for a job shovelling chips into paper bags or putting tins of beans on shelves and they ask you why you want to work for McDonalds/Sainsburys - surely they know as well as you do that the answer is "I can't get anything else, I need some money, and you've got a vacancy". So why do we play this game of pretending it's some kind of career ambition at interview?
Being autistic, when I first interviewed for a Saturday job at Clarks I answered the question honestly but was still appointed.
I wonder if that would happen today?
Mind you, biggest challenge mine are facing trying to get McJobs or similar is even getting interviews. They fill in the online forms and never hear a thing. Try any other approach and you just get told to fill in the online forms.
I once applied for a Christmas job at WH Smiths, and was asked what my greatest achievement was. I said it was learning to swordfight, which had done wonders for my self confidence!
Surprisingly, I didn't get the job!
I once applied for a Christmas job at WH Smiths, and was asked what my greatest achievement was. I said it was learning to swordfight, which had done wonders for my self confidence!
Surprisingly, I didn't get the job!
"... and I'm very good with rolled-up newspapers too!", perhaps?
I saw it a lot in IT jobs but this is the first time I've seen it in the education field (private school).
Not hellish, but bemusing. For an education role one of the perks listed in the summary was "Exclusive access to our app"! I know I'm 48 but app access doesn't seem that interesting to me. Oddly it wasn't mentioned at all in the full advert.
Webforms that you have to fill in where one of the boxes you have to tick turns out to reference something you won't encounter until you get the induction... but you have to tick it to get the form to submit!
Sandemaniac: I teach my subject area (amongst others) to ICT platform and application developer trainees. They're sometimes a bit shortsighted in terms of customer-friendly designs.
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Yep.
Surprisingly, I didn't get the job!
"... and I'm very good with rolled-up newspapers too!", perhaps?
"What is your expected salary for this role?"
I saw it a lot in IT jobs but this is the first time I've seen it in the education field (private school).
Not hellish, but bemusing. For an education role one of the perks listed in the summary was "Exclusive access to our app"! I know I'm 48 but app access doesn't seem that interesting to me. Oddly it wasn't mentioned at all in the full advert.
Sorry to hear of your struggle.