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Dec 2013
7:36pm, 3 Dec 2013
13,005 posts
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Red Squirrel
That would be interesting YP. For future reference for me for interviews.
I had a agency interview today for a role and almost forgot it in all of the excitement of being solvent for 3 months. The money was piss poor tho' and not enough to pay all my bills.
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Dec 2013
12:15pm, 4 Dec 2013
7,419 posts
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SpicedApple
RS, you could well have started a process that will make working there much easier for future employees - hope your line manager's behaviour will be dealt with.
What do people think about asking the interviewers tough questions at the end of an interview? Basically, my reading of the situation is that both the success and future opportunities of the role I'll be interviewing for tomorrow depends on something they should have done half a year ago. I can't find any evidence for them having done it online. I will def need to ask what their vision is for the future of this role, but am wondering how specific to be about me knowing about this requirement. I'd be tempted to ask in a genuinely interested way if they could tell me their reasoning behind not doing said thing as there might well be a good reason I'm not aware of and which would mean that they're planning on keeping up this branch of work the role is in. I don't want to seem as if I was challenging/criticising the organisation - but I don't want a role in which my task is to wind up the branch of work I'm employed for (and thereby buarantee that the role won't continue after summer) either.
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Dec 2013
12:20pm, 4 Dec 2013
7,420 posts
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SpicedApple
Sorry, that was so vague that it might not make much sense to anyone else. What I'm talking about is a permit for the organisation to be allowed to do the aspect of work the role is in (a minor aspect for them, nothing to do with their core business). That permit is granted for the organisation, not the jobholder. It was due for renewal, but they don't seem to have applied for it from what I can see online (which, of course, might well be wrong).
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Dec 2013
12:21pm, 4 Dec 2013
64,884 posts
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Hanneke
Tricky one SA... Think I would ask if they have a reason for not doing A... as you suggest...
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Dec 2013
12:32pm, 4 Dec 2013
5,512 posts
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Woffy
SA, I would say go for it, at my recent interview I asked the panel (all Directors of the firm) if they really knew what they wanted from the new role that they were creating as I needed to know how the person who was successful was going to be measured. I told them that if they were not sure about the role and how success would be measured then it would be difficult for a person to start a job with such a vague scope and objectives.
My thinking is that if they want an intelligent person to fill the role then they should expect intelligent and possibly challenging questions.
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Dec 2013
12:35pm, 4 Dec 2013
64,886 posts
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Hanneke
Exactly Wollffy... I was in the running for a decent job a few years ago, quite a few years ago. However, they didn't want to reveal their last 5 years of results or projections, yet they wanted me to give them an idea how I was going to drag them out of the gutter... So I told them that unless they'd be more transparent, all I could do was speculate... They chose someone else, as I refused to progress without more insight, and went bust a year or so later...
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Dec 2013
1:02pm, 4 Dec 2013
7,421 posts
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SpicedApple
Thanks for the re-assurance, Hanneke and Woffy! I'll see what they say first as they might well talk about it out of their own volition - and if not, I'll ask that question in a well-packaged way. Cheers! 
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Dec 2013
1:42pm, 4 Dec 2013
64,887 posts
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Hanneke
Good luck!
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Dec 2013
1:45pm, 4 Dec 2013
11,711 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
Yup, go for it. Strangely when I asked "how would my performance be measured" yesterday he said "good question" then paused slightly as though I was the first person who'd actually asked that.
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Dec 2013
1:49pm, 4 Dec 2013
64,889 posts
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Hanneke
So it went well YP?
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