Interview advice please

[Rufus Gwertigan]

i can't get a job. working in a rotten call centre cause it's the only job i can get right now. applying for admin jobs but i don't even get an interview.

[the_hedge]

I've just been told I haven't got the job I applied for. 2 bloody interviews and a presentation and got pipped at the post. That's twice that's happend in the last month. It's good to to get to the last stage but after loads of tests and interviews it's frustrating

[rachbon]

There is alot of call centre work around where I live. I did market research for a few weeks and after that I really was considering suicide as a lifestyle choice.

My daughter has got a summer job in a call centre, and i hope it doesn't grind her down

[treacle]

cool, i'll have a look later. council application forms do my head in, but that would be top - 2 minute walk to work.

[rachbon]

Quite a few admin jobs going in the NHS in Glasgow Rachel if you fancy that

http://www.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/ApplySearch/Ad...rgID=&word=

[treacle]

i applied before and didn't hear anything back, but i might aswell apply again. thanks

[TalkShow Bob]

Got a start date for my new job. 2nd of November, so under a month to find a place and move to Cardiff! Woop Woop!

[Paul ™]

Ho Ho Ho

[vixen]

Why do you need to have previously been a santa what happens if you were an elf last year and had big ideas of promotion?

[rachbon]

Ho Ho Ho

[treacle]

are you going to apply for it?

[greenfairy43]

Dinnae be daft. He's to bloody miserable to be Santa.

I think outtolunch should apply

[ampersand]

Why do you need to have previously been a santa what happens if you were an elf last year and had big ideas of promotion?

[rollergirl]

I've got an interview next week.....Eeeeeeek! First interview i've been to in about 6 years. I'm currently trying to plan a presentation I need to give but i'm so cold this morning I think my brain has frozen I know what I want to say but said frozen brain won't collate the information into an understandable format..........and the fact that I feel sick with nerves already probably isn't helping

[TalkShow Bob]

I've got an interview next week.....Eeeeeeek! First interview i've been to in about 6 years. I'm currently trying to plan a presentation I need to give but i'm so cold this morning I think my brain has frozen I know what I want to say but said frozen brain won't collate the information into an understandable format..........and the fact that I feel sick with nerves already probably isn't helping

Edited January 5, 2010 by TalkShow Bob

[rollergirl]

If they have a number you can call phone it up. Ask them about the job, write down what they say and try and use all the words they used. Seriously works wonders. Also phoning them gives you a massive edge - makes you look efficient and keen! Oh and good luck!

[rachbon]

If they have a number you can call phone it up. Ask them about the job, write down what they say and try and use all the words they used. Seriously works wonders. Also phoning them gives you a massive edge - makes you look efficient and keen! Oh and good luck!

[TalkShow Bob]

aye this does make you look good. when i've apliied for council jobs before i've arranged a meeting before the interview to get more information on the job. it makes you seem really keen, and i was advised to do this by someone who works in the council.

[minute5072]

Got a phone interview on Monday...I hate phone interviews

[rachbon]

Got a phone interview on Monday...I hate phone interviews

[minute5072]

yeah they are awful. i hate competency based interviews in general. they're shite.

[rollergirl]

don't think i've ever had a phone interview....always been face to face, not sure i'd like to do a phone one

Good Luck with it, i'm sure you'll do well

[rachbon]

aye me too. managed to get through them to get this far fortunately. Gonna need to try and get myself well prepared and have examples of when I did x, y and z set out in front of me for when they phone

[rachbon]

i just hate how long the process is for some jobs these days. i applied for a job at the department of work and pensions a few years ago. i had to go in for a maths and english test. i passed that and the next stage was a telephone roleplay thingy. i passed that and then went to an interview. i didn't get the job. so after three f**king visits to the place, they didn't even give me any feedback as to why i didn't get the job.

[rollergirl]

after having spent the last hour getting my knickers in a knot about what I'm going to wear to my interview I can suddenly see the benefits of phone interviews.......I could be in my underwear and they'd never know

and i still haven't decided what im wearing