Interview for job I do not want

Carol_1985

Ok so, I have an interview for a job that i do not want on friday. I'm in college and we're sent on placement for a semester. If we get the job we have to take or we fail the semester. I dont want the job because it'll mean moving away to Dublin and giving up my current job. Then after 6 months I'll be back to college and left with no job. So any ideas on how to throw the interview without being too obvious please!

DonkeyStyle \o/

Slouch in the chair, they hate that

4zn76tysfajdxp

Shit yourself. Failing that, take speed:

greyed

Start with a prayer.

Overheal

grow a pair, take the job, and move on with your life rather than put it off?

Carol_1985

Overheal wrote: »

grow a pair, take the job, and move on with your life rather than put it off?

no

minidazzler

Carol_1985 wrote: »

no

Why not, you can actually find another Job.

Is the Job Full-time? Is it paid? Are you living at home?

Carol_1985

minidazzler wrote: »

Why not, you can actually find another Job.

Is the Job Full-time? Is it paid? Are you living at home?

The job is full time for 6 months and will be paid. Nope not living at home.

The job spec is pretty much the job I do at the moment except in different industry. It's a customer service job. I don't think it would give me anymore experience than my current part time job. The job I hav at the moment is well paid for a part time job.

If I leave I won't be able to come back to the job. And I wouldn't bet on finding a job easily in january!

Overheal

Carol_1985 wrote: »

The job is full time for 6 months and will be paid. Nope not living at home.

The job spec is pretty much the job I do at the moment except in different industry. It's a customer service job. I don't think it would give me anymore experience than my current part time job. The job I hav at the moment is well paid for a part time job.

If I leave I won't be able to come back to the job. And I wouldn't bet on finding a job easily in january!

Last July nobody would have forseen in difficulty finding a job that january. The fact of the matter is you dont know how quickly things might recover.

minidazzler

6 months full time will get you more money than 6 months part-time. You can rent accomodation cheap in Dublin nowadays given the current plethora of houses and rooms to rent.

Save and then you will survive months without a job in January.

Personally I think it would be foolish of you to blow an interview on purpose because you don't want to move.

Do you fail if you simply don't get the Job?

Go for it!!!

4zn76tysfajdxp

OP, you should whine and bitch more so I could wittily could say that your sig is appropriate. Please.

Overheal

Blaise Grumpy Raincoat wrote: »

OP, you should whine and bitch more so I could wittily could say that your sig is appropriate. Please.

If he had a sig he's pulled it now :pac:

Carol_1985

minidazzler wrote: »

6 months full time will get you more money than 6 months part-time. You can rent accomodation cheap in Dublin nowadays given the current plethora of houses and rooms to rent.

Save and then you will survive months without a job in January.

Personally I think it would be foolish of you to blow an interview on purpose because you don't want to move.

Do you fail if you simply don't get the Job?

Go for it!!!

It's not that I don't want to move. It's just I feel a reliable, steady income is better for me at the moment. Career wise this job isn't going to give me any experience that I haven't already gotten in my current employment.

In other circumstance, or if the job was relevant to what I want to do in the future then it may be worth it.

If I dont get the job then I wont fail. I'll just have to do an alternative programme

Carol_1985

Blaise Grumpy Raincoat wrote: »

OP, you should whine and bitch more so I could wittily could say that your sig is appropriate. Please.

Give me time, I'm only getting into this whole boards thing!:)
And where is that sig thing!!

Fiona500

Do you know if the interviewers will be reporting back to your tutors? Cause I have some tips for either situation...

If you are POSITIVE that they are not, then take your pick or mix and match.

If they are reporting back...I would suggest a mix of 1 and 8...but be careful, don't over do it!

Rented Mule

Overheal

I mean the easiest way to fail for an interview is not prepare tbh. Youll still go, and answer questions, but even without prepared answers nobody would accuse you of deliberately failing.

Still think you're not thinking this through clearly enough.

seanybiker

how do ya know your gonna get the job in the first place

Mr.Lizard

It's quite simple. Do no preperatation. Just turn up on the day (preferably 10mins late) and just have a formal enough chat with them. Never do anything in the interivew that would could be categorised as undeniably negative but definetly give off the vibe you're not interested in (a) the job (b) the course you're doing (c) a future career in the field and most importantly (d) that you're not a paricularily gregarious person to have aoround. They'll consider what 6months of you in the office will be like and they won't want anything to do with you.

I had my own job lined up for my work placement but was sent on a couple of interviews that I didn't want regardless. I made it clear enough to the interviewers (without literally saying it) that I hadn't done any prep, and was ambilivant at the prospects of getting the job. They got the message.

Don't do what one of my colleagues did however when sent to the same unwanted interviews saying "can I be honest with you. It'd be doing me a big favour if you didn't give me the job because I have another one lined up atm". The interviewing panel reported this back to the college and he got in big trouble.

phasers

Put a photo in your wallet of you with your arm around a little girl. Towards the end of the interview (Which has gone perfectly), start exchanging family stories. He will probably say "I've a wife and couple of kids", then you reply "Yeah I've got one of those myself at home." Show him the photo.


"wow, cute daughter."

..."Daughter? No sir, that's my wife.We had our second anniversary last week, she thinks it's great because it coincides with her tenth birthday."

Or you could just man up and take the job.

[-0-]

Just don't show up? Would they fail you?

Mr Benevolent

Or you could just woman up and take the job.

FYP

Joey the lips

Dont worry there is 700 people ahead of you and 1400 behind you. Just do the interview. You can bet they will interview others.

If you get the job tell them you already have accepted another. You will shock the life out of them!

CreepingDeath

Carol_1985 wrote: »

So any ideas on how to throw the interview without being too obvious please!

Tell them you put in a lot of spare time helping trade unions.

Lord Derpington

OP, ive been in teh exact same position myself recently.
I was due to go on work placement in April and i had interviews from September on, one such interview was one which involved me moving away from College and my friends and girlfriend and moving to Sligo more than 4 and a half hours away, another involved me moving 2 and a half hours away.
In the end i didnt go to the 2 1/2 hour one and i got into serious issues with the careers office over it and the one in Sligo came back after and i didnt have a choice but to go for it.
In the end, i got accepted to Sligo but they never got back to give me a start date... i ended up doing more interviews and now im working in Dublin instead...

What im trying to say from all this is that, in my expirence you cant choose what work expirence to go on. My class had ~80 sudents and a good 30 of those didnt get work placement and ended up doing unpaid placement in the college doing projects.
Would you like to be unpaid or have a great summer in a new place and get some money out of it.
The possiblility of having your job gone in college is obviously not very nice, but is there anyway that (if you were to go home at weekends) you could do an hour or two a week just to keep you on the books?

phasers

Confab wrote: »

FYP

But that would just mean she would cry and think about shoes.

No no, she must approach this like a man

EL_Loco

If your current jobs is so similar to your placement you should be able to get credit on your course for doing your current job as your placement.

niceirishfella

Every answer you give, say "meh" before you start the sentence"

corkkaz

whatever you do, dont say " I have another job I want". My friend said it and they hired him despite it.

tat dam sexy

dermand for a high pay raise and to wear any clothing u want

BaconZombie

OP, Just remember HR { Human Remains } staff move around a lot and are very clicky so if you really feckup an interview for a job you may not like it could come back and bite you on the ass later when apply for a job you do want later in life.

delllat

just show up in a white shirt with pizza and beer stains on it ,scratch your balls constantly ,look at the decor in the room and stare into space for awile after they ask you a question,then say "what?"
maybe pick your nose as well for good measure

finally after spending a few minutes there shake hands with them using the hand that was used to pick nose and scratch balls

this should ensure they dont give you the job

A-Trak

Interviewer: So Carol, where do you see yourself in five years?”

Carol: (don’t say doing your wife, don’t say doing your wife, don’t say doing your wife) “Uhhh… doing your… son.”

Rented Mule

The Wal wrote: »

Interviewer: So Carol, where do you see yourself in five years?”

Carol: (don’t say doing your wife, don’t say doing your wife, don’t say doing your wife) “Uhhh… doing your… son.”

Is 'yore ma' an acceptable answer to the interviewers questions ?

ak51535

haha just go in and give a sense of "not giving a sh1t3" that would work, unless they are really desparate :pac:
seriously, if you don't want the job just act uninterested.

BaconZombie

Put a link to 4chan /b/ on your CV under training and a link to LemonParty in your references.....

Turd Ferguson

Tell them you're a pikey

Rented Mule

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Tell them you're a pikey

They can't discriminate on those grounds.

...but if they do

PAYDAY !!!!

RaverRo808

One word-stracher

doubtfir3

Carol_1985 wrote: »

The job spec is pretty much the job I do at the moment except in different industry. It's a customer service job. I don't think it would give me anymore experience than my current part time job. The job I hav at the moment is well paid for a part time job.

Why did you put yourself forward for interview in the first place?

Why not just tell your college that you have secured a position already and that your interview place should be given to someone else who needs a job..

The guy

The Wal wrote: »

Interviewer: So Carol, where do you see yourself in five years?”

Carol: (don’t say doing your wife, don’t say doing your wife, don’t say doing your wife) “Uhhh… doing your… son.”

Carol: "Celebrating the five year anniversary of you asking me this question."

/mitch hedberg

admiralofthefleet

watch the scene in trainspotting where spud 'spuds' his interview. then copy

Carol_1985

doubtfir3 wrote: »

Why did you put yourself forward for interview in the first place?

Why not just tell your college that you have secured a position already and that your interview place should be given to someone else who needs a job..

I didn't put myself forward. You get sent on these interviews and have to go!

If I tell them I have a job secured then there is paperwork to be filled out and submitted. They also visit you while on placement. So can't do that

My job is only part-time and it would have to be fulltime for it to count as my college placement.

General Zod

do the interview, take the job, go and do your placement, graduate. You'll be in a far better position for doing that than if you keep at your part time job and fail college.

IvyTheTerrible

Carol_1985 wrote: »

I didn't put myself forward. You get sent on these interviews and have to go!

If I tell them I have a job secured then there is paperwork to be filled out and submitted. They also visit you while on placement. So can't do that

My job is only part-time and it would have to be fulltime for it to count as my college placement.

But then aren't you between a rock and a hard place? Because you won't want ANY job that you are sent on placement because it has to be full time and you don't want to lose your part-time one.

So the choice is between failing your year, or losing your part-time job.

I think I would go for the placement tbh, unless you want to stay in the part time job forever...

blackbox

General Zod wrote: »

do the interview, take the job, go and do your placement, graduate. You'll be in a far better position for doing that than if you keep at your part time job and fail college.

+1

When you started the course, surely you new what you were signing up for.

Surely getting your qualification is more important than hanging onto some part-time job.

Go for it!

Naos

I cannot find it / not arsed looking futher (make sure you adopt this kind of attitude) but if someone who has more patience than me could post up the Peep Show episode where Jez goes in to fail the interview, much obliged.

_blank_

Dress up like a slut, then post pictures here.

When they ask about your interests, tell them you post semi-naked pictures of yourself on the internet.

General Zod

May I just add "welcome to the real world" where you have to make decisions that take you out of your comfort zone, but you go through with it because you have to. Life sucks. Get a helmet.

Spunge

a bit o speed is just the ticket

Dudess

Can't you just cancel going to the interview? I agree it's not a good idea to leave a permanent job. And LOL at people saying you'll find a job after the six months if you were to get this temporary one.

"Sure... the recession will be over in 2010."

Although, can you use the job you currently have as your placement? Otherwise you'll have to leave it in order to pass your course.