Learning to walk before I run

edinburgher

I managed 3,900. I never wish to see this bloody application again if I live to be 100. Most effort I've ever put in, fingers crossed.

Edit: back to usual business - £7.53 OPed.

Cheery_Daff

Fingers crossed indeed Ed! We are all rooting for you. Any idea when you find out?

edinburgher

It closes on the 19th, interviews pencilled in for 29th-30th. 

Baileys_Babe

Cheery_Daff said:

The few times I've sat on a job panel I've been surprised by the number of applicants it's been easy to dismiss - not following instructions for a start (eg the advert says 'please explain in no more than 100 words why you want this job' or whatever, and they just don't), or reusing a previous application without editing ('i am applying for the position of xx at *other company*) 🙄

Many moon ago when I sat on job panels it always surprised me how many applications could be dismissed by not following basic instructions, the first thing I always did was check the back of the form to make sure it had been signed, if not it was discarded, considering one of the criteria we always required was attention to detail, they had demonstrated they weren't as detail orainatated as we required, this was a very quick way of reducing the number of applications we needed to assess.

@edinburgher wishing you every sucess with your application.

Cheery_Daff

Baileys_Babe said:

Cheery_Daff said:

The few times I've sat on a job panel I've been surprised by the number of applicants it's been easy to dismiss - not following instructions for a start (eg the advert says 'please explain in no more than 100 words why you want this job' or whatever, and they just don't), or reusing a previous application without editing ('i am applying for the position of xx at *other company*) 🙄

Many moon ago when I sat on job panels it always surprised me how many applications could be dismissed by not following basic instructions, the first thing I always did was check the back of the form to make sure it had been signed, if not it was discarded, considering one of the criteria we always required was attention to detail, they had demonstrated they weren't as detail orainatated as we required, this was a very quick way of reducing the number of applications we needed to assess.

@edinburgher wishing you every sucess with your application.

Sadly I suspect many of the people who don't follow the instructions are also the ones saying 'I've put in a hundred applications and not got a single interview' 😬 it's a shame for everyone really 😕

themadvix

Good luck Ed. Good editing there - I think concise but detailed is the best - you can say a lot with the right choice of words!

edinburgher

So, the limit for myjobscotland is 4 free text boxes of 4,000 characters (that helpful old measure) I had written 30,000+ 

Having lost the will to live, I let the AI chop it, keeping my wordings where possible, and assessing it to make sure that it still came across as natural. 

Honest to God, what a palaver. Why not just say "there's a limit of 16,000 characters/2,500 words"?  

Submitted now, my teeth are grinding

KajiKita

Ugh … I hate that kind of unassessed inconsistency! 

Well done for persisting. Sending you all the vibes …

KK

rtandon27

Argh - that is the worst!!!

edinburgher

I am taking the day off tomorrow - Mrs E away for work.

Dratted cat has vet again tomorrow, limping again 😴