Not Getting the JobMuns asks - Did you blag your way through a job interview, only to be caught out? Is your photography portfolio full of other peoples work? Did your potential employers google your name, before offering you a lucrative contract and discover something from your past you would rather forget? How did you fail to get the job?
(, Thu 11 Jun 2015, 12:00)
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I've been for lots of inappropriate jobs and tried to bullshit my way through the interview and failed*Security manager for a tv production team working in the middle east (didn't have a fucking clue on this one. didn't know what I was thinking in going for it)
*Coastal engineer trying to save the beaches of Palau (pulled out all the stops for this one. even had a mate posing as an ex-boss for the reference. did so much research I actually understood the solutions quite well. got to final interview but was pipped by a coastal engineer, who presumably actually knew what he was talking about)
*BBC iplayer technical project manager. (Was doing well in this one until they asked me a question about AJAX which I'd failed to research and exposed my lack of programmingness and ficticious backstory, which until that point hadn't hindered my career in IT development in the slightest)
*Head of Development for the British Council in Brasil (I only had one gap in my knowledge, and had a mate who was going to vouch for me that I'd worked in this area for years, who had a very senior position(director of multinational). Then the mate died on me before they could get the bullshit reference)
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 16 Jun 2015, 13:03,
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I am genuinely curiousWhat happens when you get these jobs that you aren't qualified for? Can you blag so well that you manage to learn the role before being discovered?
(, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 10:06, closed)
This is an accurate summationIt's part of the appeal as I'm easily bored. I'm not winging it as a brain surgeon, mind
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 23:20,
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a friend of mine is going in for brain surgery soonThey are going to keep him awake while they remove a tumor. That's got to be weird someone flipping the top of your head open while you are awake!
(, Thu 18 Jun 2015, 11:34, closed)
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