Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Would you like to send them over here? There is plenty of 'quick cleaning' to be done!

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Of course.....your house will take five days to vacuum, and one box of 120 tea bags, and LOTS of milk. RP doesn't move furniture or do corners. But your mid level walls? No problem!

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

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Of course.....your house will take five days to vacuum, and one box of 120 tea bags, and LOTS of milk.

Done!

I have a LOT of tea in the house for someone who doesn't really drink tea.

I seem to be doing the opposite of RP-style cleaning. I should have managed to properly clean every room at least once by now. Instead there are some rooms which have just had a quick going over with the vacuum cleaner. Oops.

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

Tomterm, you come across very well here. Do you think your new bod will have an impact on employers opinions or even your opinion of how others view you and be a positive thing? What sort of job are you looking for? Are you still writing?


(I wanted to apply for a job in the new stone henge gift shop but realistically couldn't commit. I think it would have been such a fun little job though)

No, while improving my health is a priority it won't make a fundamental difference to those things. I had the same problem when I was slim.

It's a personality thing, is all... Not a question of confidence, since I am very confident. But I am a confident introvert probably quite far at the end of the scale, and those assessment centers want confident extroverts.

And yes, still writing

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Done!

I have a LOT of tea in the house for someone who doesn't really drink tea.

Will do, (lir rubs hands).


RP isn't a bad egg at all, far from is, I'm just letting off steam . :cool: I'm sure you'll have a great time together.

Btw let me know about dates, I have my ideal home magazine.

Also I'm looking for inside places to visit in Hampshire or wiltshire next week....national trust or English heretage type things, but all recommendations taken.

Spirits recommendation wins automatically if she makes one . . I think its going to rain next week.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

No, while improving my health is a priority it won't make a fundamental difference to those things. I had the same problem when I was slim.

It's a personality thing, is all... Not a question of confidence, since I am very confident. But I am a confident introvert probably quite far at the end of the scale, and those assessment centers want confident extroverts.

And yes, still writing

You sound a bit like DH, he's quiet, and quietly confident, I thought he wasn't that confident when we met, and he proved me wrong. Some people do better the more you know them, self contained people especially.


His interview for employer was more genuine, sincere, a chat about jazz, education, which allowed him to give sincere opinions and be real. Much better. His employers usually recruit grads through longer assessments, a placement of a minimum of two weeks. This gives enough time for a number of different colleagues to give feed back over performance on real tasks in the office and personality. Its far from perfect, but its better than paper tower building.

tomterm8

A pity... in a few weeks or maybe a month visiting Stourhead would be something really worth while. Not sure visiting any garden is worth it at the moment.

chewmylegoff

tomterm8 wrote: »

No, while improving my health is a priority it won't make a fundamental difference to those things. I had the same problem when I was slim.

It's a personality thing, is all... Not a question of confidence, since I am very confident. But I am a confident introvert probably quite far at the end of the scale, and those assessment centers want confident extroverts.

And yes, still writing

depends what it's for - ours is very heavily weighted towards the interview and a piece of analysis work which you do on your own and then present to two assessors. There are two group exercises but they are not really that important in the final outcome.

I agree they're a rubbish way of working out if someone can do the job, but then so are interviews themselves. The only way of finding out if someone can do a job well is getting them to actually do it.

We only use assessment centres for graduate recruitment. The best tool we use for experienced recruitment is a case study where you actually get the candidate to do a piece of real work of the sort they would do on a day to day and then talk to them about it. It's much harder to bullsh!t that sort of exercise and I pay more attention to that than whether someone can tell me about a time they did something or other.

Spirit_2

Nikkster wrote: »

Would you like to send them over here? There is plenty of 'quick cleaning' to be done!

I will pm you my post code. I was admiring a cobweb between a picture and the ceiling on the landing, only about an hour ago.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

A pity... in a few weeks or maybe a month visiting Stourhead would be something really worth while. Not sure visiting any garden is worth it at the moment.

Stour heads amazing, (could have done house) but would prefer something further east. I know stourhead REALLY well. . Dog dog and I used to walk there off season, when she was little, her first winter with me, when dogs a allowed because its not muddy. and because its not too unlevel for a croc.

silvercar

Grrr!

The most simplest job in the world. I want a phone plug (RJ45) bunged on the end of a phone cable. If I had the tool that does it and a spare plug I could do it myself.

Write something on facebook and some guy talks him self round. Agrees it is possible and says he would do it for just his call out charge...£70!!!

Sent him on his way.