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Originally Posted by greencreeper
I can relate to that  I regularly come across jobs that I know I can do but I also know I'll never be able to demonstrate that I can do the job. Recruitment has become too Americanised, with far too much value placed on aptitude tests, team exercises, and role playing. I remember a job interview with Norwich Union in which the guy running the interview had a piece of paper with his questions on - he couldn't ask me a question that wasn't on the bit of paper. Equal opportunities apparantly. More like madness to me. What happened to the days when an interview was little more than a chat with management so they developed a gut feel for your suitability.
I'm one of the country's foremost experts in the LUSID system. Raise your hand if you've heard of it dear reader... no - didn't think so 
Take a break and review things, see how you feel. I can understand your wanting to make a clean break. |
I hate the way this country has become Americanised, and how key skills have been pushed to the back to concentrate on BS. I find it difficult when I have been involved in interviewing people and HR have made it clear which candidates they prefer, these people are usually the weakest technically and sometimes are the biggest BS merchants you will come across.
I am amazed that many HR people seem to have the attitude that finding suitable employees is a chore, and they just want to get the first person who answers the HR type questions correctly.
I went for a second interview with a company last week, but still not heard anything yet.
I went to a second interview last week and was interviewed by a couple of managers and their senior engineer, the senior engineer was the typical ex-army bulls****er. He tried to ask difficult questions and became unstuck when he was trying to be clever about things he obviously knew very little.
I had already told them I was not interested in the position before the interview, but they still wanted to chat about other positions that could be available. The ex-army guy had taken an instant dislike and possibly saw me as a threat so I had nothing to loose anyway.
Some of his questions were very funny, and he asked me things that he thought I wouldn't know because those skills were not listed on my CV.