GROWL. ;) ;) ;)
First (first class honours): bloody impressive. Second: so common that they were split into two types, 2:1 and 2:2, where the former is better. And then there are thirds. Basically, that's it. I think fourths have died out completely (they were very rare, my great grandfather got one for being, well, not very good but a nice bloke, or thereabouts; cynical people will tell you that they were for thick aristocrats who basically failed but were rich and influential and so had to be given some kind of degree just for turning up, and this may well be partly true, but my greatgrandfather was not rich or particularly posh).
There are also degrees "without honours" for if you don't quite manage to fulfil all the requirements for a proper degree but I don't really know how common they are, I think how often they get given and what they involve varies a lot from place to place. Perhaps I should know more, since being a dropout from a university that's not as good as the one Martin dropped out of (HMPF ;) I spent a while reading the small print to see if there was anything I could do to get a non-honours degree. And there wasn't. Sigh.
― Rebecca (reb), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
As for non-honours degrees, at De Montfort there were a number of students who started on an HND, then transferred to a degree programme after that. For some reason they got non-honours degrees. This is fact, but I don't understand it!
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rebecca (reb), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
Question - how on earth do you successfully duck out of work for the afternoon without arousing suspicion? I'm usually a scruffy bastard so there's no way I can style out turning up in a suit for a "doctor's appointment". Also, I'm supposed to be training an assistant as the moment so actually taking time off could be difficult. What to do?
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― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link
It is also my philosophy that if you take a few hours of vacation it is your own damn business why; no explaination required beyond "I need to take a couple of hours off tomorrow -- that o.k.?" The end. I'm uncomfortable lying about sick leave or doctor's appointments.
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nothing sadder than seeing the long line of interviewees streaming in and out, followed by the discussions i overhear about their positives and negatives.
― omar little, Thursday, 26 June 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
nothing worse than realising you have no interest in a job 5 mins into an interview. as i did this morning. pretty much have another job i'm really keen on so was always a case of just seeing if it was somehow miraculous.
it was going really well, i was nailing every answer despite not caring (which may help), then couldn't resist the amazing dry internalol of
"how would you improve our website"
"i haven't looked at it, sorry."
― LocalGarda, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:40 (twelve years ago) link
I have the job interview of my life this afternoon. Idiotically, I was up all night preparing for it and now I'm shattered. Nice one Dog Latin, you plonker.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:42 (twelve years ago) link
"by not getting the job"
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:42 (twelve years ago) link
nothing worse than realising you have no interest in a job 5 mins into an interview.
Well, at that point you can relax and use the rest of the interview as practice.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
true
― LocalGarda, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:13 (twelve years ago) link
i was nailing every answer despite not caring (which may help)
haha yes this is always the way. some might draw parallels with "pulling" here.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
going into a job interview for a job you don't want guarantees an offer 95% of the time IME.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
Can you try to convinve yourself you don't want this job then?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
.. because it's a crummy job and they desperate for people?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:26 (twelve years ago) link
win-win situation: two job interviews, either would do but the second one is *TheOne*.
Int1= relaxed, I'll worry about job 2.Int2= relaxed, int1 went well, so even if I don't get job2, job1 is in bag..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
I had an interview which basically *frightened* me once - the woman interviewing me (it was a TL position for a helpdesk) banged on and on about how young the team were and how half of them were "a bit uncontrollable" and that "discipline is a problem" and I was like "oh god, Ive never even BEEN a helpdesk TL before, I dont need a team of 19 year old dorks who would rather be playing God of War than listening to me" and I got up and walked out and was SO reliveed when I didnt get the job.
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
I once applied for a job as a junior archivist (or sth similar to that, can't recall exactly) with the heritage park in one of my old cities. When I went to the interview, they instead interviewed me for the position of 'interpreter', ie the people who dress up all old-timey and role-play all day to show kids how people churned butter and ran hospitals or schools back in the olden days. I had to do things in the interview like 'tell a story about a time you did something new or different' and answer the question 'do you like children?' I am NOT good at improv/storytelling and I dislike kids.
They must've been p desperate for people because they offered me the job a few days later. I did not take them up on the offer.
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
LOL, you should have said in the interview, "I am NOT good at improv/storytelling and I dislike kids"... still might have got the job tho
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
I might as well have said those things!
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
One time I was investigating a move back upnorth, and had an interview for a job.
Interview one went really well, so far so god. Interview 2 was obviously with their 'beat-down' guy, who promptly decided that I was uncommitted, and reduced the salary offer *and* the role to 'looking after legacy systems' without any committment to training on the new platform.
So, I said no when they sent their final offer.
Two things happened: I got a nice contract role in't city which ran for 18 months, and by the time that job concluded I noticed that the firm up north had gone bust and closed.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
good, not god. ALthough I was pretty good...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
It's over. I'm a nervous wreck and I'm sweating more than Josef Fritzl on MTV Cribs.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
"und here ist where das magic happens..."
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link