Job Interviews

[Ravenz]

going thru the 'mill' of it at the moment.. I may be picky but if you do an interview with a company and the overall impression is that they are too flash by half to go and work for them .. but the job will be a decent one etc etc etc .. but gut instinct tells me it isnt the right one.. but it may not go any further anyways (2nd interview) to save my blushes ..

You always get told to be true to yourself blah blah .. and other such like in GMTV psycho blahney .. but that don't get the bills paid do it..?

how do others react to job hunting....?

 

[mr Mag00]

hehehe you and i should have our own thread to discuss such matters!!

oh we have !

take it and keep looking?

 

[beanzontoast]

If you can afford to choose, my attitude is to 'be true to yourself', yes. If not and money needs are the deciding factor, I'd think about taking the job a) on the basis that it will pay the bills and I can still be looking for something better and it might just turn into / be made into a better job than I thought, so could be ok to stick with anyway.

 

[pzycoman]

If you can afford to choose, my attitude is to 'be true to yourself', yes. If not and money needs are the deciding factor, I'd think about taking the job a) on the basis that it will pay the bills and I can still be looking for something better and it might just turn into / be made into a better job than I thought, so could be ok to stick with anyway.

I second that notion - I took a 6k pay cut, and 2 hours driving each day to take this job, and its a really great job, and its the right "step" for me...

 

[yello]

on the basis that it will pay the bills and I can still be looking for something better

Honest to god, I couldn't do that. I'd take a stop-gap job, stacking shelves or temping or some such, but I could never sign on the dotted line full time if it wasn't right for me. And it's just not fair to the employer.

I've always taken the 'true to yourself' line and have even turned jobs down because they just didn't feel right. But I am lucky; I know I interview well and I'm sure of the skills I have (well, had now!)... I don't think I've ever been interviewed and not been offered the job.

So my advice is to be honest, know what you want and trust yourself. I don't think you can be happy adopting any tactics, they'll be seen through anyway.

 

[gbb]

Honest to god, I couldn't do that. I'd take a stop-gap job, stacking shelves or temping or some such, but I could never sign on the dotted line full time if it wasn't right for me. And it's just not fair to the employer.

I've always taken the 'true to yourself' line and have even turned jobs down because they just didn't feel right. But I am lucky; I know I interview well and I'm sure of the skills I have (well, had now!)... I don't think I've ever been interviewed and not been offered the job.

So my advice is to be honest, know what you want and trust yourself. I don't think you can be happy adopting any tactics, they'll be seen through anyway.

I got an uneasy feeling when i came to my current employers...the attitude was completely different than my previous work...it did make me wonder if i'd done the right thing. But, as with all jobs i assume, you find pluses and minuses in any company.
My current employers (and accordingly employees) are full of themselves and 'front' is everything. But then i've found it refreshing in some ways...when they want something, they do it. No faffling about ( unlike my old relaxed company, where it took 6 months to agonise whether it was the right thing to do...only to realise, by the time they made the decision, it was too late anyway)
Pros and cons.
Still dont like most of the people here mind.....but you just do things your way, and stuff em (if you're lucky enough to be in that position).

 

[Ravenz]

thanks for the different perspectives... I am erring on the side of still looking for other stuff and maybe not be too cut up if I dont get 2nd interview .. to put it mildly.

There was the other considerations such as a long commute.. altho that could be done by train... I would love to be able to stick to my peculiar parochial viewpoint that a job within a few miles of abode is what could 'save the planet' better than sticking in a few dim nrgy litebulbs or changing the x5 to bio diesel.. (not that I have got an x5 whatsit you understand!)

 

[ChrisKH]

Can I ask what being "too flash by half" constitutes in this context? Does the director drive a Porsche and force his own version of Thatcherite economics or pro-animal testing down your throat? As gbb said, front is everything in some businesses ; you don't have to agree how they do business (unless it is clearly against your own personal ethics) to earn a wage. But if it's going to grate from day 1, well,

I would urge caution having accepted several positions that I later regretted, although the signs were there at the time.

 

[Over The Hill]

thanks for the different perspectives... I am erring on the side of still looking for other stuff and maybe not be too cut up if I dont get 2nd interview .. to put it mildly.

There was the other considerations such as a long commute.. altho that could be done by train... I would love to be able to stick to my peculiar parochial viewpoint that a job within a few miles of abode is what could 'save the planet' better than sticking in a few dim nrgy litebulbs or changing the x5 to bio diesel.. (not that I have got an x5 whatsit you understand!)

I would take anything at the moment. I see it that I will do anything for seven hours as long as they pay me. I not there to be me I am there to be what they pay me to be.
On tother hand if you have a gut feeling....

I thought the BMW tonka toy thing was called an XS not X5 and they were trying to rub the rest of our noses in it by calling it "excess".

 

[Ravenz]

I thought the BMW tonka toy thing was called an XS not X5 and they were trying to rub the rest of our noses in it by calling it "excess".

x5... 'cos the smaller one is an x3 and yu have to feel sorry for the poor drivers, as they obviously can't afford the big one!

 

[Ravenz]

"too flash by half"

I'm a simple country boy at heart.. just can't be doin with Sth M/cr Didsbury city slickers lol