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Alasdair Murray's Blog – April 2012 Archive (3)
Ever wondered what the clever phrases in those job ads actually mean?
Conduct an online job search these days and you’re soon confronted with lots of ads, many suggesting, without actually saying it of course, that each day spent working with them will be just like dying and going to heaven, only better. But should they be taken at face value? Is your workplace heaven? Or is it more like hell, despite what that ever so enticing advertisement that lured you there in the first place suggested? Here I take a lighthearted look at what job ads say and what they…
ContinueAdded by Alasdair Murray on April 24, 2012 at 7:00am — No Comments
20 more interview questions and how NOT to answer them
Following the popularity of my original series of 20 interview questions and how not to answer them, I've once again revisited the job interview scenario and present for your delectation a bit of Friday afternoon fun:
Interviewer: "How do you manage people?'.
Interviewee: "I don't so much manage as tolerate them to be honest"
Interviewer: "Describe a complex problem you had to deal with"
Interviewee: "Chlamydia wasn't much fun, but…
ContinueAdded by Alasdair Murray on April 20, 2012 at 9:00am — 1 Comment
I don't buy all this "allowing Facebook access at work increases productivity" nonsense
Remember before all this online technology shenanigans when we just turned up to work - to work? Did we insist that we had access to Pac Man, Pong or Space Invaders, or any of the other trivial pursuits you care to name, during working hours? Of course not. Then, when the good old 'Messenger' came along - Yahoo, AOL etc. - and enabled us to chat with strangers at our will - did we insist that our new distraction of choice be installed on our PCs in the office? No. So why, pray tell, is there…
ContinueAdded by Alasdair Murray on April 12, 2012 at 7:34am — 12 Comments
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