So. How did you get that job?
This looks like an interesting blog - and, as it develops should have a wide range of great examples of how people actually get jobs in their chosen field.
Worth following I think
Answer (1 of 185): One reason that many people with good college educations hate their jobs is that they picked a conservative / climb-the-ladder-oriented career when they were young (i.e., right after college) and then they never switched. When they first picked their career at the age of 22: …
Some very interesting answers to this on Quora
Have you ever given daft interview answers? Read the silliest interview answers and me astounded by just how ridiculous some of the interview answers are.
Some good ones in here…
Answer (1 of 204): I was interviewing for a job as an applications engineering manager in a two-year-old Silicon Valley company of about 300 employees in the 1980s. My last stop was an interview with the CEO, an impressive ex-military Israeli entrepreneur. We were in a makeshift lab/office, sitti…
Some fantastic stories in here!
Falling asleep on the sofa…
...then waking up and going to bed at 3AM
Could the back-ache I am currently suffering from be connected??
Great for a desk-based job sat on a cheap chair staring at a computer screen…
Grumpy? Me??….
I’ll never forget the first day I realized I didn’t have a clue.
I was fourteen years old and it was the first week of high school. I was looking around at the other ninth graders in my class, and felt a little out of sorts because of what I was overhearing. High school had just started, but…
Nice blog post
To whom it may concern…
I am writing in response to the vacant Retail Store Logistics Manager position, a post which I feel I am ideally suited, having consolidated ten successful years within customer services in a senior management position. The post would be an ideal progression at this stage in my career. I relish its many challenges which I am confident would enable me to utilise my progressive experience & knowledge and network connections.
Just swopping the job title in your standard covering letter from the last application isn’t really going to cut it. Yes, it might save time, but perhaps you could save even more time by simply applying for vacancies for which you have some relevant experience
Just a thought…
"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."
—
Paulo Coelho
Very true in the context of work - if you are seeing patterns that you aren’t happy with, they aren’t going to change of their own accord.
