Having run the gamut of job applications, I and others are finally seeing the fruits of our labored resumes come to flourish. Well, we are getting interviews and boy those interviews/written test are nasty.
Speaking as a reasonably well-educated University grad run of the mill human, they were/are HARD. A test that alots you 2 hours to complete, and when the HR person laughs it off and says it's not impossible...yeeesh. Bad sign. It won't take you 2 hours but it will take you pretty damn close to the brink of insanity!
Who really knows the mysteries of Excel, well I now know how to add and perhaps multiply, but god help you if you have to calculate the percentages! (and no, he didn't help, the bastard) And wait a minute, didn't I have to use Excel every day at my previous job?
Editing? Easy-peasy. Write a letter? Piece of cake. Work with an excel doc. fumbling with totals, %, X, -....well, I've run out of cliches. Horrid. Double horrid when you get one of those old-school 'adding machines' and it keeps adding the previous totals onto your new total=absolute fail.
Almost makes you think unemployment really isn't so bad, and what if you get to the interview and look like a complete and total fool? Heck, even the job you are desperately trying to escape might seem good after that brain-reaming.
...Xxxx....feeling kind of braindead.xls or is it .doc?
I like the picture...
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