People are currently digging up the road directly outside my front door. The drilling is doing my head in and the only thing that rivals it is a 20-page job application I filled in recently.Yes that’s right, 20 pages – PLUS covering letter! And to top it off, it’s not even for a journalism job.
I nearly lost the will to live whilst doing it – these sample questions will explain why.
Despite spelling out all my duties in all my past employment, there were 12 questions to answer, and you had to give three examples of when you’d demonstrated each of the 12 requirements.
Try finding three un-inane examples to illustrate these:
1. You must be educated to degree level.
2. You have a good level of spoken and written English.
You may also have lost the will to live just reading that. But the job was well-paid and easy – what more could you ask for in an interim job?
I also have to admit that what these application forms do give you a chance to do is to be…well, creative is one word. Someone else might use something ruder. And what I’ve discovered is quite a few of the more old-fashioned application forms have very similar questions, which means a lot of simple copying and pasting.
So, I admit, grudgingly mind you, that it wasn’t a complete waste of time.
5 comments:
I don't mean to sound callous, but with the last poll in mind I certainly wouldn't pay to read yet another 'redundant journo' blog..
Yes, I have to agree. It's no wonder the redundant journo has been made redundant. These blog bits are awful. None of the wit I've come to expect from FSB. Just boring. They had the potential to be so much funnier.
That's pretty harsh, I like them. It could be any of us up there next.
Yeah, in hindsight that was a bit harsh, I'm sorry, I just thought redundant journo could do better.
Perhaps you should pop over to beajournalist.co.uk where the editor of that site has published a blog from a student journalist sofia, who is hoping to make it big in the media world. Her wit is slightly more entertaining.
I think the point being made here is that there is great potential for this column, or it is just that there is nothing exciting in what the writer has to say. I can see both sides of the argument
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