Thread: Job Application 20 points equals how many pages???

Always, think positive! it always helps to have a positive attitude in life,and to present a happy personality,it gives people the impression that one is a confident person (even if you are quaking inside)

cheers

JUst to add to this thread there are differences in "Government" jobs and University jobs and private employer jobs in the way selection criteria etc are written.

I know from experience that the government way of doing things is a big **** !!! Only gets people good at writing applications- quite often they are useless at the actual jobs....

Originally Posted by UncleHo

Always, think positive! it always helps to have a positive attitude in life,and to present a happy personality,it gives people the impression that one is a confident person (even if you are quaking inside)

cheers

I agree 100% and even if the application it is not successful because every cloud has a silver lining
I still thinking in a positive way by thinking that was a good experience and perhaps there will be better opportunities.
Then again I am optimistic by nature (with a touch of sarcasm? )

I wishing you all the best in the future

Originally Posted by Chucaro

Then again I am optimistic by nature (with a touch of sarcasm? )

im an optimist with experience.

Originally Posted by Eevo

im an optimist with experience.

Hello All,

It is just like the lottery - got to be in it to win it!

I have tried to live my life as close to possible to Rudyard Kipling's poem If...

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on the turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "hold on!"

At the age of 50 I have started at my beginnings a number of times.

Interestingly, the reason why I have had to start over again a number of times is found within some earlier stanzas of Rudyard's poem.

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by Knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you have gave your life to, broken
And Stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools...

To end at the end of Rudyard Kipling's poem...
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!


The real poem in its proper order is found at http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm Accessed October 29th 2013.

I have worked out the personality type of the people who Kipling describes as "Knaves" who wish to "trap fools" and delight in breaking other people's lives. I can hopefully now recognise these people for what they are and either avoid them or limit the damage they cause (http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-na...-sociopath.htm & http://www.wellsphere.com/mental-hea...iopath/1065278). Fortunately I have only met them within my work career domain. I am full of sympathy for people whom have met their type within the personal and private domains - it must be sheer hell.

Kind Regards
Lionel