Work is work - or why job application forms and CVs are bullsh!t

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KennyR wrote:
This crap really p1sses me off. Why is it every job application form wants to know absolutely everything about me? Work (and unemployment) history, hobbies, age, marital status, interests... what the hell have these got to do with my competence? I'm applying to work for someone, not trying to be a sperm donor, for god's sake. As I see it, the employer doesn't need to know about me, and doesn't really have the right to know about me either. I just wish they'd butt out and just fuxxing take my qualifications of evidence of my competence and dedication - I only spent most of my life getting them! :-x

I'm a boring guy who's unlikely ever to be very friendly and even less likely to socialise, but I can do the work and will do it, and better than most people ever could. So why the hell do they want all this trivial and superficial rubbish most people lie through their teeth about anyway?

Work is work. People do it for money. The sooner these companies learn that and stop blowing this bullsh!t avalanche all over us and giving jobs to better liars rather than better workers, the better for everyone.

Grrrr! :pissed:

Work's for life (or should be for life), KennyR. And working solely becomes a rarity these days.

btw. grow up KennyR.

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@KennyR
heh, yes, but they got the jobs and you don't.

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Yes, and others work their asses off to pay your unemployment.

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so you live from air (or a generous heritage)?

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Look, KennyR, sometimes in our life we need to do things against our will. The laundry, cooking, vacuum cleaning...
I dunno how you have been raised..

I do not think you should make such a problem about an interview... It's easy :-)

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If the mountain does not come to Muhammed, Muhammed has to go to the mountain.
Here in NL, ppl with a chemistry degree are very much wanted, if I know it correct.

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KennyR wrote:
I can't speak Dutch :-P

No problem. The Dutch can speak English. We're no French..

Besides, if moving 100 miles down south to get a job in England isn't possible for me, moving to Europe would be even harder.

Why? I know a lot of ppl, including some of my family who went to foreign countries for work.

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cecilia wrote:
I've gone to interviews where I've basically been told it was a "boys club".

Such is explicitly forbidden here in NL (and most probably also in the US). You can sue them.

But KennyR, I recognise very much in the complaints of you, but my parents told me to deal with it, because they WON'T change.
I am not someone who really can represent himself. I am no way a 'beach boy'. I do not have tone of voice, I hardly have any facial expression, and I or I look ppl way too deep in the eyes, or I do not look ppl in the eyes at all.
Yet I do not worry about getting a job. Just being on the right place on the right time, having a patient and friendly attitude and focus primarily on your motivations why you chose the job should be enough.