Annoying job application questions

I've got an application form to fill in at the moment.

One of the questions is:

"What has been your greatest achievement to date and why?"

Ferfucksake, how the hell do you answer that? I don't have things I
regard as "greatest achievements", just things I've done and some were
more fun than others. I never really sit there and think "I feel a
great sense of achievement having done X".

 

Make a list of all the ones you can remember.

Then filter out all the illegal/ foolhardy/ dangerous/ drug or drink
fuelled.

what you have left is the answer ;-)

 

How about "answering this annoying form rather than ripping it up". Could be
what they're looking for.

 

Managing to try and take this question seriously, because quite frankly
it's the kind of thing people in HR think up when they have nothing
better to do.

HTH.

 

Ferfucksake, how the hell do you answer that?

They're after some great character building event which happened to you.

Quote a particular socially inept attribute the average person might have,
and then explain how you overcame it!



Kev

 

I don't really think they'd like

"My greatest achievement to date is getting up this morning".

 

I like.

 

IANAHR Bod, but this *may* come across as "ever-so-slightly cynical".

 

Lie.

 

"I invented wool. For centuries this has saved millions of people
around the world from freezing to death"

 

There have been so many, I find choosing between them really difficult ...

 

[snip]

....and carried Bubonic Plague around the country killing countless others -
nice one

 

Just because its de rigueur doesn't mean that its obligatory.

 

You think?

 

Its a job application form, I though it was de rigueur?

 

"Saving $1million on unnecessary fireproofing during construction of the
WTC"

 

Ben says...

"Not smashing my last boss's teeth through the back of his head"

 

Right. No body believes me obviously, or maybe its cos I have the crap habit
of making my own threads up rather than trying to follow existing ones. But
this is the Polish girl in question anyway )

www.v8rocks.com/P1020039.JPG

 

Huh? What are you talking about? Why is that man wearing lip-stick?


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AndrewR says...

Now you know why he turned her over for a rear entry