Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 06:29:23 EST From: Subject: Re: NJC job application [EMAIL PROTECTED] in reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], about the job application to Walmart...
says "Well, it may or may not be genuine - let's hope it is. It certainly made me chortle. It strikes me that some of these answers are the sort you might give at an exit interview! You know, "I've never said this before, but, hey, what the f***..." My own Job application story is thus... Newly separated and being forced to find work (I was not ready at the time as I was really in a bit of a state) I had to go and sign on for the dole... This entailed going to JOB CLUB and having to send off for application forms... these I did, and all I had to supply was the proof that I was applying..... I applied for all sorts of jobs I had no qualifications for but thought "What the F*** I will do it anyway" For one job, as the Chief Executive of a large company I coloured in all the letters that had holes in them..D,B,etc., and filled out the form in silver metallic biro..... Funnily enough I did not get a reply or even an acknowledgement, but then putting the name Minnie Mouse in the application may have been enough to put them off the scent!!! On another form for the personal assistant to a Psychaitric Consultant I put in a fake name and filled the application in with wax crayon ....and then when it got to the bit that said "have you anything else you would like to tell us about your self" I drew them a lovely picture in kiddy style with my dog and the sky and some birds and my house and lovely flowers in the garden..... I would love to have been a fly on the wall as that one was opened!!!! Then I applied for the job as a booking clerk with P&O ferries and just filled it in very flatly and got an interview and the job!!!!! And now I work for a charity... do you think it was the heart felt tear stains that did it? Lucy
