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LeftrightOut said:
You don't seem to understand. In an interview YOU ARE SELLING YOURSELF. You are hoping the company you are interviewing for will lease you for a while so you can continue life in the rat race. What did you think interviews were for?
precisely correct. u will totally ace the interviews =)
 

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deviation said:
precisely correct. u will totally ace the interviews =)
Damn and I already have a good job :D

Frigid it's not bleak it's reality, as I have said before, a lot of times uni grads are no better off than HS grads because neither really has much of an idea of what the real world is like.
 

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LeftrightOut said:
a lot of times uni grads are no better off than HS grads because neither really has much of an idea of what the real world is like.
but surely that comes with experience? i still have four and a bit years to graduation... i hope to have 'wisen' up by then. :)
 

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Frigid said:
but surely that comes with experience? i still have four and a bit years to graduation... i hope to have 'wisen' up by then. :)
It does come with experience, but if people have closed minds on what to expect and how they want to behave they will be in for a rude shock when no one outside of their special interest group cares.

Even if she told you that you came across like a complete tool you can ask her why she feels that is. Maybe you have an overbearing personality, or perhaps you argue insignificant points while larger problems continue unchecked.

Also a HR manager is often not the one having the final say, they are involved in the process but your supervisor has one of the strongest opinions most times.

HR is usually involved from a starting point, in my experience the position chain goes

1) We need someone to do this - Supervisor/boss
2) OK give us some specs and we'll advertise - HR
3) Thanks these are the specs - Supervisor/boss
4) Ok anyone who applies but does not meet the criteria gets put in the garbage straight away (or filed away for 7 years depending on the company) - HR
5) Here's a list of people - HR to supervisor/boss
6) Thanks, can we have a section to weed out some more, here's a test of what i'd like them to do, make them take it - Supervisor/boss to HR
7) The tests were taken and we also had a quick interview to weed out those who have no idea what business dress sense is or how to communicate professionally - HR to supervisor/boss
8) Ok here's the list of people who passed the first three stages - HR
9) Thanks guys, can i have the names on tabs of paper and I will use my dart board to pick out a few - supervisor/boss
10) Ok lets go have an interview to see who the winner is - Supervisor/boss/interview panel (in my experience by this stage they know who they will pick and this is a formality to find ways of justifying the choice further).
11) Congrats mister winner, sorry mister loser - HR

A few of those you can switch around but any recruitment for a serious job gets thrown around a fair bit.

Every company will vary in the way they do things though but the larger ones tend to have several stages. I had a couple where I didn't apply for the job, they came looking for me, but they were contracts and smaller organisations.
 

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its a restaurant chain similar to Oportos
 

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Frigid said:
as a result you've got these fake-happy bastards who do nothing but socialise at work.
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i agree to an extent with that. i hate it when i see a person putting on the fake happy confident thing while working, i don't like doing it because i feel like everyone will be looking at me as a fake. but in an interview situation if i have to do it i will, just not the whole time when i am working for them.
 

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Portuguese chicken place, they used to always be attached to service stations but seem to have broken away.
 

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