Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Peck]

So this is what the lecture slides look like for a course that you pay $1400 for. Top quality, riveting stuff. Uni's seriously don't even try.View attachment 45713

I did a subject "Animal's in Society" so I could slack off, I did not expect one lecturer to spend most of the lecture asking questions and waiting awkwardly for answers. I feel bad for flaming her, but it was actually hilarious.

 

[Peck]

Whack one out before the interview. You'll feel better.

Apparently fidgeting a lot before your interview can increase your success. Only if you are a man though.

 

[_Christoh_]

After developing and piloting this program I can say it is very effective and valuable. Im glad Port Adelaide picked up this program even if it meant I was out of a job as a result. Bitter sweet indeed.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

General interview tips now, think i've got most of it covered


suiting up for this one
Lots of product/company research
get there early
look sharp as ****

anythig i'm missing?

Try and predict a few of the standard questions they will ask.

Why did you apply for this job?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
What do you bring to the role?
What are your strengths/ weaknesses. Never say you have no weaknesses. Be honest but describe how you can turn it into a strength.

there are sites on the net that have a range of standard questions.

Be prepared to be flexible in your thinking while prepared for the role.

 

[raman]

Why did you apply for this job?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
What do you bring to the role?
What are your strengths/ weaknesses. Never say you have no weaknesses. Be honest but describe how you can turn it into a strength.

Unfortunately sensible questions like those are pretty rare these days. The idiotic disease that is situational questioning has made its way out of the public service and into private industry recruiting.

So the questions are more likely to be stupid crap like "Describe a time when you had to deal with a difficult customer/colleague/stakeholder" and you're expected to answer in the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) or CARE (Circumstance, Action, Results, Evidence) formats.

There are plenty of sites with these sorts of questions too, or course.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Unfortunately sensible questions like those are pretty rare these days. The idiotic disease that is situational questioning has made its way out of the public service and into private industry recruiting.

So the questions are more likely to be stupid crap like "Describe a time when you had to deal with a difficult customer/colleague/stakeholder" and you're expected to answer in the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) or CARE (Circumstance, Action, Results, Evidence) formats.

There are plenty of sites with these sorts of questions too, or course.

I still use those questions or variations when on an interview panel, but heck I'm a dinosaur.

 

[finbarr]

The handshake is extremely important, it can't be strong or you'll look arrogant, and it can't be weak or you'll look like a pansy.

You also can't go early and grip their fingers, they'll feel weak. And if you let them grip fingers, it's a sign that you're weak.

Keith Thomas would greet all interviewees with the "pull-away" handshake, where he'd pull back his hand and run it through his hair. Then he'd playfully punch you in the guts and say "pull up a beanbag and let's get this shizzle started!".

 

[I Dont Care]

Unfortunately sensible questions like those are pretty rare these days. The idiotic disease that is situational questioning has made its way out of the public service and into private industry recruiting.

So the questions are more likely to be stupid crap like "Describe a time when you had to deal with a difficult customer/colleague/stakeholder" and you're expected to answer in the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) or CARE (Circumstance, Action, Results, Evidence) formats.

There are plenty of sites with these sorts of questions too, or course.

"Would you jump through this window, if I told you to?"

 

[Jumbo]

"Would you jump through this window, if I told you to?"

Is the window open or closed?

 

[I Dont Care]

Is the window open or closed?

Hmmm...it's open

 

[Jumbo]

Hmmm...it's open

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Looks a little high

 

[Steve Dore]

General interview tips now, think i've got most of it covered


suiting up for this one
Lots of product/company research
get there early
look sharp as ****

anythig i'm missing?

If they ask you to sign anything refuse the offered pen and pull out your PAFC 2014 pen.

 

[I Dont Care]

If they ask you to sign anything refuse the offered pen and pull out your PAFC 2014 pen.is

Edited, for comedy

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

Just saw Anne Wills on my lunch break. She's still the grand old Matriarch of Adelaide in my eyes.

 

[Jumbo]

I just decided to listen to 5cc online for a little while so I went to their web page and was greeted with a zoomed in shot of Leon Byner's head, what an ugly mofo he is

 

[5um0F1]

General interview tips now, think i've got most of it covered


suiting up for this one
Lots of product/company research
get there early
look sharp as ****

anythig i'm missing?

some sort of padding on your chin just in case "extra skills" are required

 

[Honeyboy Wilson]

So for those people who get accidentally drunk on no coin and can't get a way home because they can't afford a taxi...

Would it be feasible for there to be an honour service, where you call a number and a sober bastard (who has placed themselves on call for the night) comes and picks you up and drives you home, you have to leave your details (maybe credit card number) and you get a free ride home?

The catch is, you have to pay it forward within a month. Put yourself on call for giving someone a lift home within the next month, or you get charged $100.

tl;dr Free ride home as long as you give a free ride home within a month or you cough up $100.

 

[I Dont Care]

So for those people who get accidentally drunk on no coin and can't get a way home because they can't afford a taxi...

Would it be feasible for there to be an honour service, where you call a number and a sober bastard (who has placed themselves on call for the night) comes and picks you up and drives you home, you have to leave your details (maybe credit card number) and you get a free ride home?

The catch is, you have to pay it forward within a month. Put yourself on call for giving someone a lift home within the next month, or you get charged $100.

tl;dr Free ride home as long as you give a free ride home within a month or you cough up $100.

When I was a young bloke in Adelaide, and having drunk my last coin's worth...accidentally...I just used my thumb to get home. Mind you I do remember the walk from the city to TTG was a good way to get sober before reaching home

 

[It Just Is]

So for those people who get accidentally drunk on no coin and can't get a way home because they can't afford a taxi...

Say you want to go to an area e.g. My place is just near 'Something' Park, then leg it.

Would it be feasible for there to be an honour service, where you call a number and a sober bastard (who has placed themselves on call for the night) comes and picks you up and drives you home, you have to leave your details (maybe credit card number) and you get a free ride home?

The catch is, you have to pay it forward within a month. Put yourself on call for giving someone a lift home within the next month, or you get charged $100.

tl;dr Free ride home as long as you give a free ride home within a month or you cough up $100.

I'm pretty sure it's illegal to taxi drive unless you have a certain licence and it's probably quite dangerous picking up stray drunkards late night.

 

[Jumbo]

So for those people who get accidentally drunk on no coin and can't get a way home because they can't afford a taxi...

Would it be feasible for there to be an honour service, where you call a number and a sober bastard (who has placed themselves on call for the night) comes and picks you up and drives you home, you have to leave your details (maybe credit card number) and you get a free ride home?

The catch is, you have to pay it forward within a month. Put yourself on call for giving someone a lift home within the next month, or you get charged $100.

tl;dr Free ride home as long as you give a free ride home within a month or you cough up $100.

You'd have to be a total cadbury's to accidently get drunk

 

[raman]

When I was a young bloke in Adelaide, and having drunk my last coin's worth...accidentally...I just used my thumb to get home.

You must be able to do pretty special things with your thumb.

 

[I Dont Care]

Say you want to go to an area e.g. My place is just near 'Something' Park, then leg it.


I'm pretty sure it's illegal to taxi drive unless you have a certain licence and it's probably quite dangerous picking up stray drunkards late night.

The only time I remember picking up stray drunks at night, they were more sober than me

 

[I Dont Care]

You must be able to do pretty special things with your thumb.

You've never Thumbed?

 

[Steve Dore]

Thumbed a lot back in the late 70's but way too dangerous these days.

 

[I Dont Care]

Thumbed a lot back in the late 70's but way too dangerous these days.

Agreed..I was talking back in the early 80's.