What's the most interesting thing you've done to get a job?

idiotkid

I'm writing a feature for a national newspaper about people who've done something different in their job interview/application.

The story will feature the people who recently took part in the X-Factor style auditions for Music Maker and someone who got a writing job based on a letter of complaint she sent to an editor.

However, I need a couple more people so I'm looking for others who may have a similar story and are willing to be photographed and interviewed for the paper?

3DataModem

I played in (and dealt) a poker game as part of an interview many moons ago.

idiotkid

Sounds good but needs to be your current job. The job wasn't to become a croupier was it?

tenchi-fan

I did two interviews and an aptitude test

Sorry, it's a job in accounting. Did you really expect something exciting. :P

Lando Griffin

Had a meating with a potential employer in a pub, and the two of us got legless.
Turned out to be the best job ever, but the company was sold 2 years later.

Amandapanda801

I applied to work in a make up and accessories store at little shop and asked if I could show my skills by doing the interviewers make up.. She agreed and then hired me. I don't know if that is interesting though.

piby

3DataModem wrote: »

I played in (and dealt) a poker game as part of an interview many moons ago.

I can just imagine it now:
Employer: I raise you one full time position with our company
You: Call
Employer: Full House. No job for you!
You: Four of a Kind, Aces
Employer: I see. Starting salary will be . . .

Oh please tell me that's how it happened :D:D

bbam

Rang up the day after the interviews were scheduled to explain how I'd mixed up the dates, had to do a prelim on the spot over the phone and was brought in for an interview the next week... Worked there for 5 years

pog it

idiotkid wrote: »

I'm writing a feature for a national newspaper about people who've done something different in their job interview/application.

The story will feature the people who recently took part in the X-Factor style auditions for Music Maker and someone who got a writing job based on a letter of complaint she sent to an editor.

However, I need a couple more people so I'm looking for others who may have a similar story and are willing to be photographed and interviewed for the paper?

What does one get for the offering of one's personal story, a piece of their skilful imagination, and photograph?

Also, what national paper is it?

hatful

Is it acceptable to your editor to quote from random posters on boards.ie? I was flabbergasted a while ago to read a piece about cheating in the leaving certificate, where the secondary level education forum on here was quoted liberally "Teen17" says..... Is it not a bit lazy not to mention unreliable?

LostCovey

hatful wrote: »

Is it acceptable to your editor to quote from random posters on boards.ie? I was flabbergasted a while ago to read a piece about cheating in the leaving certificate, where the secondary level education forum on here was quoted liberally "Teen17" says..... Is it not a bit lazy not to mention unreliable?

...... and silence!

Another 'google scholar' has their bluff called.

LostCovey