This should be how not to get hired, but I actually got the job.
Apply for a job where confidentiality is very important. Be working in another job where confidentiality is important.
Go to the office fax (with your supervisor's permission - as the post was short term and they were pretty supportive) to fax your application and meet the deadline at the last minute.
Get to the fax and go "Oh, we have new referrals". Pick up referral sheets and look at them. Turn over the papers in your hand...
Fax your application and 3 confidential client referrals.
I had to phone up the second office desperately asking them to shred the things unseen. The receptionist there was lovely (even lovelier when I actually worked there) if puzzled and sorted it out for me. I suspect she may never have mentioned anything to the manager.
The supervisor at the old job was so sweet she offered to call the office and say she'd faxed for me, and try and sort it out. I figured you need to clear up your own messes sometimes.
I'm a very very lucky person.
Incidentally the old job there was a short term permission and was later made permanent. I applied and failed to get the job I was actually doing. They were really nice and said it had been a hard choice, I can't believe it was. They asked at the interview why I wanted to do the job, and what I liked about that sort of work - I just stared blankly. I couldn't lie to people I knew and liked and I just couldn't think of anything positive to say. It was an OK job but not for me.
Others - failed to understand a question at interview. Unfortunately the person who asked it (a 5 person interview panel, where they'd assigned questions to people and had someone from the admin team ask a highly technical question outside her field) didn't understand it either and couldn't explain when I asked, it was just the most awful silence. I think she was more embarrassed than I was.
Another blank moment - when asked to tell the interviewed about a time I'd helped resolve conflict. I could only think of times I started it.
Also I once interviewed for a telephone job, I think it was calling people for charity applications. You had to interview and then you had to phone someone up and use the script. When it was my turn to phone the phone system went funny and it didn't go through. At that time I was so desperately shy I couldn't manage to tell anyone this and I just pretended I'd done it and ran away I probably wasn't cut out for cold calling
Victoria J
Apply for a job where confidentiality is very important. Be working in another job where confidentiality is important.
Go to the office fax (with your supervisor's permission - as the post was short term and they were pretty supportive) to fax your application and meet the deadline at the last minute.
Get to the fax and go "Oh, we have new referrals". Pick up referral sheets and look at them. Turn over the papers in your hand...
Fax your application and 3 confidential client referrals.
I had to phone up the second office desperately asking them to shred the things unseen. The receptionist there was lovely (even lovelier when I actually worked there) if puzzled and sorted it out for me. I suspect she may never have mentioned anything to the manager.
The supervisor at the old job was so sweet she offered to call the office and say she'd faxed for me, and try and sort it out. I figured you need to clear up your own messes sometimes.
I'm a very very lucky person.
Incidentally the old job there was a short term permission and was later made permanent. I applied and failed to get the job I was actually doing. They were really nice and said it had been a hard choice, I can't believe it was. They asked at the interview why I wanted to do the job, and what I liked about that sort of work - I just stared blankly. I couldn't lie to people I knew and liked and I just couldn't think of anything positive to say. It was an OK job but not for me.
Others - failed to understand a question at interview. Unfortunately the person who asked it (a 5 person interview panel, where they'd assigned questions to people and had someone from the admin team ask a highly technical question outside her field) didn't understand it either and couldn't explain when I asked, it was just the most awful silence. I think she was more embarrassed than I was.
Another blank moment - when asked to tell the interviewed about a time I'd helped resolve conflict. I could only think of times I started it.
Also I once interviewed for a telephone job, I think it was calling people for charity applications. You had to interview and then you had to phone someone up and use the script. When it was my turn to phone the phone system went funny and it didn't go through. At that time I was so desperately shy I couldn't manage to tell anyone this and I just pretended I'd done it and ran away I probably wasn't cut out for cold calling
Victoria J
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