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Graduate programme appplication form

  • 21-04-2007 11:31am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 947 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    Just wondering when you're filling in an application form and it asks for work experience, would you put in casual work you do once or twice a week for one hour at a time, all it is manual labour, not relevant to the job I'm applying for at all.

    Thanks


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    If it's all you got then go for it. If you have other work experience then why bother.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 947 ✭✭✭fobster


    They ask for work experience in the past 3 years and the only other job I've had was back more than 3 years ago. Needless to say if I had anything more substantial I'd put that in instead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    Well then its better then nothing I'd imagine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    damnyanks wrote:
    If it's all you got then go for it. If you have other work experience then why bother.

    I'd agree with that as well. I've filled out a few graduate programme application forms in my time and had to embelish my work experience (i.e. talk it up, not make stuff).

    If the casual work is all you have done, then write it down. if it asks some questions like "what did you gain from this experience", you could say something like "Oh, I got experience of working in teams, meeting the needs of customers, or carrying out tasks of a superior" etc. This kind of stuff can be related to any kind of job (i.e labouring on a building site, working at a shop counter etc.)

    I've found myself that if you are able to put your work in as good a "light" as possible, then it doesn't really matter whether the work was relevant to the position or not. Obvioulsy, it would have have been better if the work was related to the graduate position, but that is not always the case...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 947 ✭✭✭fobster


    The work is just a spot of nepotism I got through the mother, setting up and taking down tables in a hall for a market every friday. I've been doing it for quite awhile, over 6 years I think, I do it on my own as well. I have it on my cv too so I might as well put it down.

    I don't know how I could talk it up though, maybe working independently or something.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    Well if its just work experience then put it down as points about what you did. I see so many guys from my class write experience likes its an essay.

    Make them one or two liners. If you were putting them down yourself say how you managed your time and so on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 947 ✭✭✭fobster


    It also asks for a character reference and that I should know the person for at least 2 years, do you think they'd be flexible on that? Say a lecturer who I have for two subjects and talk to regularly, and know for about a year and a half??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    Should be fine, just make sure they dont have the same second name as you :D


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