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#8

was that by any chance the fault of an agency?

#9

No, headhunted directly by the boss of the business in question.

#10

I’m all for it

#11

Yeah man. Applied for a social media manager job in a start up I really liked. So wasn’t qualified. I mean I was prepared to take a big pay cut too but ultimately they were like LOL FUCK OFF.

But getting lots of LOL FUCK OFFs is part of life. Glad I did it. I got through to a “second” stage where they asked me to email them my approach to X and Y and I hadn’t really got a clue.

But f you’re thinking of doing it, definitely try.

#12

Applied for a graduate job at an engineering consultancy thing because they said that my academic background would be fine. I had my doubts, because my chemistry stuff didn’t require any maths beyond simple arithmetic, but I needed a job so went for it anyway.

I couldn’t answer even the first part of the first question on the written assessment.

Remarkably, they still invited me to interview. I didn’t go because I was convinced they were doing it so they could laugh in my face.

#13

So I suppose you could say it went pretty well.

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#14

I was once a lifeguard at a private health club. I have never had any lifeguard training. Nobody died.

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#15

In a sense, you turned them down.

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#16

That’s how I’m choosing to remember it.

#17

Did you ever have to do quantum stuff in you chemistry course? (I know it’s physics but a friend had to do some, including Schrodinger’s equation and hated it.

#18

Kind of, I guess.

When I was made redundant the only available jobs in the sector were for running large high-end residential projects. We’re talking £50m+ projects. I applied for loads and got polite rejections from a couple and silence from the rest.

Technically I was qualified enough, but I wasn’t experienced in the sector at all, and was way too junior to be running jobs of that kind of size.

Not really much of an anecdote, I’m afraid.

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#20

in the end did you get something similar to what you’d been doing?

#21

I did introductory stuff, but ran screaming from the more hardcore mathsy stuff. Thankfully my course was modular, so I had the option to do more synthetic chemistry and biological stuff instead.

One of my final exams was a “general studies” thing with questions taken from all of the modules though (obvs it was an “answer three of these seven” type exam) and it was eye-opening to see some of those questions and how far outside my knowledge they were.

The first question was “Einstein’s special theory of relativity predicts a maximum atomic number for the periodic table. Why? (20 marks)”, to which my only answer was “haha what”

#22

I was working as a marketing temp at a company ages ago (first job out of uni) - there was a mixup at my recruitment agent and they put me forward for a marketing manager position somewhere else in the company. Somehow nobody really noticed until I actually got into the interview that I was wildly underqualified for the job. It was a really embarrassing and slightly spirit-crushing interview which resulted in a pretty rapid rejection.

#23

No. I was doing healthcare, education, social housing and transport stuff and I still think those sectors are shedding jobs.

#24

Oh, I also recently got headhunted for head of department at a pharma company. I’m about 15 years of experience short of being qualified for something like that.

Recruitment agencies, eh? Bless their cotton socks.

#25

Back when the market was good, I used to get calls from recruiters apparently headhunting me, despite never signing up with any agencies.

None of the posts were appropriate for my experience at all. One of them was to be my supervisor’s boss.

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#26

Briefly managed a small cafe when I was between ‘career’ jobs in 2013. Was totally unqualified to do so (had worked as a barman for about 6 months prior) but was a piece of pish.