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Rarity posted:Asii, once you get to interviews (which you totally will), take the time to prep for them as well. I know you'll get a kickass job. This makes such a big difference and it is amazing how many people don't do this. busb posted:Thus is possibly the worst résumé advice I've seen. You should be tailoring and focussing your résumé and your cover letter for every job, because you want to make it sounds like you aren't just form lettering them. Also this.
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Rarity posted:They don't have my job, my friends, summer, decent accents, the Premiership or easily accessible MDMA in Scotland Your job doesn't pay enough to get secure lodgings Your friends would ow be pigeons and Scots (so, better) Scottish accent are wayyy sexier and awesomer than British ones, you could take one up! They do play football actually!! Stop doing drugs! There I solved everything for you. Anything else?
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Prepping for interviews is good, especially if you know you are a bad interviewer. I'm lucky in that I am very personable and interview very well so my research is done and imprinted in my brain as I write my cover letter and organise and focus my résumé. Everyone needs to find what works for them though.
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busb posted:Your job doesn't pay enough to get secure lodgings My job is really fun, a great stepping stone for my career and the best I've ever had Scots are depressing and pigeons suck Wrong Yeah but they play the SPL which is just... no. Drugs are ace though?
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busb posted:Prepping for interviews is good, especially if you know you are a bad interviewer. I'm lucky in that I am very personable and interview very well so my research is done and imprinted in my brain as I write my cover letter and organise and focus my résumé. Yes. For my interview for the job I have now I predicted or googled about 40 potential questions I could be asked, wrote down detailed answers to each of them and spent about a week revising them so that I could pull them out on the spot if the question came up. It was easily the best interview I've ever given and I was told afterwards I was blatantly the right candidate from start to finish. Putting in the prep work is vital (also the interview thread in BCF is an amazing resource that everyone should check out)
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Maybe it's just an English thing but you're the first person I've ever spoken to that doesn't like the Scottish accent. It's 2nd on best accents, slightly behind French
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Nov 18, 2015 00:27
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It's not an accent it's incomprehensible.
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scottish accents are good scots are good rarity is silly this is all not news to anyone imho tbh hth
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Podima posted:FYI that service was sold to another person a little while back and they got run out of SA-Mart for not being transparent about that alongside declining quality of service. Not sure if they've made a new thread since. Oh, well then don't use them if they suck now. My bad, I used them like 3 years ago and they were amazing. That sucks 
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The one time I actively prepped for an interview by doing some research into good questions to ask and applying those general ideas to the field of education was 100% the worst interview I had in the slew of interviews I went to when I was looking for a teaching position. I am pretty sure that particular school only interviewed me as a favor to my old Drama teacher who was friends with one of the current drama teachers there, because they kept the person before me for 20 minutes into my interview and then my interview lasted about 20min of the allotted 40. Was still pretty rough, though. The rest of the interviews I've had I've just talked about my experience and why I love teaching and some of the things I've done and my philosophy and it's gone well! But I feel like Choral Music and Drama are pretty weird subjects to be interviewing for anyway.
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Don't prep for interviews, just be a naturally charming and knowledgeable individual. Same goes for cover letters and accurate resumes and all that schmuckery. Just be fly as heck, man. It's good. Get paid money for doing whatever. Or don't. Doesn't sink my boat either way. You just keep rocking your loch in up there in uk canada rarity. It's all good.
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hey authorman et al. let's just chill and listen to music or whatever on the internet https://www.dubtrack.fm/join/sa-wifom-omgus
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Quidnose posted:The rest of the interviews I've had I've just talked about my experience and why I love teaching and some of the things I've done and my philosophy and it's gone well! But I feel like Choral Music and Drama are pretty weird subjects to be interviewing for anyway. The weirdest interviews I had for a teaching position were both the two that actually offered me a job two summers ago. A lot about the one for the job I actually took was incredibly strange and had all sorts of red flags, but it is an incredible job that I am going to hugely regret leaving in a few years. I think they mostly all follow a similar script, though, and basically ask about the things you mention in this quote.
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It is too long a story to type on my phone while my fingers are freezing but when I get home I will tell the best/worst interview story of all time. Get ready for it.
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Authorman posted:Don't prep for interviews, just be a naturally charming and knowledgeable individual. Same goes for cover letters and accurate resumes and all that schmuckery.
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bowmore posted:Authorman knows Keane's poo poo.
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Also all the cover letters that I write aren't really letters either they are just boxes where I fill out how's such and such a work experience makes me qualified for some nonsense. I really like filling out those boxes though they let me be creative. I can talk about how we're going with kids doing experiments is a lot like working with clients in an office.
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EccoRaven posted:hey authorman et al. let's just chill and listen to music or whatever on the internet Music is good, everyone should come hang out. Rooms are fun with music.
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I'm at work, timezone fascists
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Okay I have taken refuge inside while waiting for the bus and am no longer freezing. Many years ago I applied for a job at the government. It was a general sense inventory pool, which I mention because that means you apply for no specific job but can be called at any time for an interview. I had been waiting roughly a year for them to call and finally I get an interview. I dress up in a cream long sleeved shirt and a skirt. I get there about 15 minutes early and wait in the lobby for someone to come down to security to get me at the interview time. I'm getting really nervous and step outside for a minute to calm down while I'm waiting, when out of absolute nowhere I throw up all over myself and my shirt. In a panic I go back inside and go into the bathroom in the lobby. Luckily there is an accessible stall with its own mirror and sink so I lock myself in, take off my shirt and try to wash the vomit out of it, but it's not really working very well. Time is running out so I decide to wear the shirt backwards. It didn't have a collar and I figured my long hair could cover the neckline at the back and hopefully the vomit. When I put it on, the light colour of the shirt makes the tag at the back of the neck clearly visible. I try to rip it out and in the process rip the seam of the shirt. Time has completely run out now and I'm wearing a wet, ripped shirt backwards and smell of vomit. The interviewer comes to pick me up from the lobby and all I can focus on is not letting her behind me to see my back. She takes me to this tiny room with another interviewer and closes the door. The smell quickly overtakes the room. I remember basically nothing about the interview other than the feeling of my wet back against the chair and the smell of stomach acid. When it was over I have no idea how I managed to successfully leave the room without them seeing my back. I told them I could find my own way out and basically ran away. Three days later I got a call that I got the job. This is a 100% true story.
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That's an AWESOME story Asiina!
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bowmore posted:Authorman knows how to poo poo on a desk
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Tax dollars at work.
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Asiina posted:Three days later I got a call that I got the job. This is a 100% true story. Spoiler: They were looking for a fall-girl. You proved yourself beyond suitable for the position.
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EccoRaven posted:hey authorman et al. let's just chill and listen to music or whatever on the internet Room was empty (well Grandi is idle) so I'm playing SB Emails now
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Kumbamontu posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3751809 Team "god DAMNIT meinberg" has been created. The trivia competition has been moved to December 5, 2015 from 2pm - 8pm EDT. If you're available at that time and interested, shoot me a PM! I'll get something setup in a doc/IRC over the weekend. e: for the timezone impaired: Saturday, December 5th EST: 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM UTC: 7:00 PM - 1:00 AM CST: 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM MST: 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Asiina posted:I like the new Movie League format so it's not just about whether you picked the giant movie or not opening weekend. I made the mistake of totally forgetting about it and not making any picks for the last month or so.
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Did the music chatroom come back?
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Kumbamontu posted:Team "god DAMNIT meinberg" has been created. I'm in on this~
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haha I got a call about an interview on Wednesday, will be sure to take on board all of your suggestions 
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busb posted:Maybe it's just an English thing but you're the first person I've ever spoken to that doesn't like the Scottish accent. It's 2nd on best accents, slightly behind French Birdstrike posted:It's not an accent it's incomprehensible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxB1gB6K-2A  Are you English, sir?  No, I'm Scottish. So you ain't English then. No, I'm British. So you ain't English then. No I’m not, but as you can see I do speak English. But I can’t understand what you're saying, sir. Well clearly you can. Sorry, are you talking Scottish now? No, I'm talking English. Right. Don't sound like it.
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EccoRaven posted:I can't sleep so I'm watching Jane the Virgin on netflix and it's TOTALLY BONKERS and I love it. You made a very good choice
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I think I made a mistake by commenting on a co-worker's Islamophobic Facebook post.
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Little Mac posted:I think I made a mistake by commenting on a co-worker's Islamophobic Facebook post. I'm getting pretty burnt out on seeing such bullshit from people and I mostly just use Facebook for posting pleasant jokes and scheduling events.
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EccoRaven posted:I can't sleep so I'm watching Jane the Virgin on netflix and it's TOTALLY BONKERS and I love it. It's so much fun. I almost made a thread for it this year, but ended up doing one for iZombie instead. Gunna make one next season tho and post all the crazy gifs 
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You guys should try living in hermetically sealed ideological bubbles, it's working out pretty great for me. (I have a [1] Conservative friend and he's much too well-behaved to talk about his views. He asked a prof a leading question about the Laffer curve once is all I can recall.)
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Pinterest Mom posted:You guys should try living in hermetically sealed ideological bubbles, it's working out pretty great for me. I'd probably be a libertarian if I lived in a hermetically sealed bubble tbqh so I can detect a flaw in your plan.
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Pinterest Mom posted:You guys should try living in hermetically sealed ideological bubbles, it's working out pretty great for me. Wait, is this what people mean when they talk about housing bubbles? I've had this completely wrong.
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