Weaknesses

I’m afraid I’m moaning again about online application systems. This one sounded like a good idea. You are promised that you can “complete this brief screening form, and then if you meet our criteria we’ll ask you to provide more detail.” The brief screening form took 2 days to complete. Ok, most of that was spent pondering whether or not I ever have managed to “resolve a confrontational situation” rather than create them, or if I actually have any “emotional resilience”. Emotional resilience sounds a bit like stubbornness to me. The ability to keep thinking what you’ve always thought despite everyone around you giving you evidence that you’re wrong. Still, at least I wasn’t asked for my greatest weakness. I might end up saying something like “my attention to detail, and my inability to leave a piece of work until it is perfect” rather than the truth which is “my inability to resist pointing out when other people are wrong”.

This fortnight: one revision of CV (needed doing); one rejection (speculative), one application (website advert), one registration with new agency; three emails received from employment agencies; one on-line application process completed. Averaging 1.9 mugs of coffee a day.