ooh, have you seen the news.......
From the Portents of the apocalypse challenge. See all 399 entries (closed)
( , Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:30, archived)
From the Portents of the apocalypse challenge. See all 399 entries (closed)
( , Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:30, archived)
Nah, it's what various Industrial companies
have been doing for years...
Waaa! I don't want to write my CV!
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:38,
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Waaa! I don't want to write my CV!
writing your CV is scary..
..especially if you havn't updated in years.
just wait until you have to do a cover letter, then the fear really starts to set in
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:45,
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just wait until you have to do a cover letter, then the fear really starts to set in
I haven't updated it since
before uni, and I can't find the blasted thing
Plus I have to write a personal statement!
Bugger!
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:46,
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Plus I have to write a personal statement!
Bugger!
Don't update!
Re-write!
You'll produce something that's more concise, more up-to-date, and you can adjust it so it's specific to the position you're applying to.
Good God, I sound like someone down the Job Centre...
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 19:04,
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You'll produce something that's more concise, more up-to-date, and you can adjust it so it's specific to the position you're applying to.
Good God, I sound like someone down the Job Centre...
I'm with you though.
Also, most recent stuff first - I saw a mate's CV recently and by putting her education history at the top she was effectively making them wade through what she got in her GCSEs before bothering to tell them that she'd been doing this really scary big responsible job for the past five months.
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 19:09,
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Aarrrggggghhhhh
The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear The Fear
*Oopps!* Sorry
MORNING ALL!
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:48,
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*Oopps!* Sorry
MORNING ALL!
Very well thanks
Cept this week. Been working till 11pm each day but at least I've been getting to meet some of the new day people!
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 19:04,
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Hey up.
I thought there was a bloody cv writing aid on the uni computers, but I appear to be wrong. Argh!!!!
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:52,
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the cover letter is so hard
it's why I only get jobs through agencies.
How are you meant to explain why you are particularly suited for a job, when you know you are not suited to any work on a fundemental level?
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:48,
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How are you meant to explain why you are particularly suited for a job, when you know you are not suited to any work on a fundemental level?
just say you don't mind making the coffee
and that you'll let the directors bumrape you and you're bound to get it
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:50,
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I have tried 3 different replies to that
and simply and rarely, I am at a loss what to say.
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:58,
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CV?
Pfft. Just apply for jobs where the CEO was at the same college as you at Oxford, surely?
( ,
Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:50,
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Doesn't
work when I spent all my uni time calling the hooray henry's twats to their faces, more fool me
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:53,
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Oh Fnord, so cynical?
Here, have a love cake...
*hands Fnord a cake of Love*
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:41,
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*hands Fnord a cake of Love*
Can I buy your inner ear?
I always wanted a spare one of those.
( ,
Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:42,
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I always wanted some self worth
will you take scrambles through wallet 23p and a bit of lint?
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:44,
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kind of a dirty grey colour
I think it migrated from a trouser pocket
( ,
Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:49,
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shame
I can probably rub some up.
gets biro, and starts ineffectively colouring in the lint
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 19:01,
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gets biro, and starts ineffectively colouring in the lint
Oh no
You lot kill me you really do!
Pootle, you should have loads of self worth, you're brill!
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:46,
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Pootle, you should have loads of self worth, you're brill!
i don't have a pipe
i don't even have a bong
i could skin up though, if that would satisfy you?
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Thu 13 Mar 2003, 18:48,
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i could skin up though, if that would satisfy you?