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No its ok, but I rather accidentally saw salary information, it was open on one of the directors computers and I went to his desk to leave a note..anyway.
I'm not motivated by money, but having seen what some of the others are on compared to myself, I'd rather move on
Well I just found out, I got the job at Sainsburys, start Uni soon aswell, should provide plenty of fundage for that
ITB's for the Clio fundage? 
It went bad enough so that I was sent home at lunch time, before the whole assesment day was finished
I messed up the analysis exercise really badly since, despite being up to date with market terminology, I'm completely clueless regarding simple business terms such as 'revenue' and was horrified to find that I was asked to make predictions based on figures. It's painful, I spent a good three weeks preparing for that and then bottled it on something trivial early on in the assessment. The worst thing is knowing that no amount of revision, swotting up or reading would have pointed out to me that I needed to know those terms.
Plus I was also asked some pretty tricky questions, such as 'how is your biology degree going to make you a good corporate lawyer considering it's completely unrelated?' and 'tell me about the biggest formal social event you have organised and how you used your time management skills to ensure it ran smoothly'.
Arse - still, the guys who were there with me were all very nice, so I hope they did well.
Congratulations to people who have found something
Still nout my end, its getting silly....I got offered more work at this metal place using the pressing machines, but i can't do it...it's just going to destrpy my ears even more so eventually if i stayed there any longer
Good luck all
It went bad enough so that I was sent home at lunch time, before the whole assesment day was finished
I messed up the analysis exercise really badly since, despite being up to date with market terminology, I'm completely clueless regarding simple business terms such as 'revenue' and was horrified to find that I was asked to make predictions based on figures. It's painful, I spent a good three weeks preparing for that and then bottled it on something trivial early on in the assessment. The worst thing is knowing that no amount of revision, swotting up or reading would have pointed out to me that I needed to know those terms.
Plus I was also asked some pretty tricky questions, such as 'how is your biology degree going to make you a good corporate lawyer considering it's completely unrelated?' and 'tell me about the biggest formal social event you have organised and how you used your time management skills to ensure it ran smoothly'.
Arse - still, the guys who were there with me were all very nice, so I hope they did well.
I'd have said those sort of questions were pretty standard.
Being asked about non-relevant degrees is a fair enough question, why did you do biology for a degree then want to become a corporate lawyer? What use is the degree? For that you need to explain about how a degree helps you to learn on your own, makes you motivate yourself to work hard, research, etc... the other question is about management and effective delegation. You can't do everything yourself for a large event, so you select people to help and delegate responsibility for aspects of the event to them (catering, venue cleaning, entertainment, door staff, furniture, etc...)
Still, I mucked up a load of my immediate post-grad interviews on exactly the same sort of thing.
We had someone like that at my old place...would be on atleast double our wage, yet he was just a mouthy confident cales guy who new nothing about the hardware he was selling. (quite loudly which was more amusing to the others)...As it was nearly 2 years out of date.If you are based in Bucks then try Softcat, they are always recruiting. You'd be joining in IT sales but having worked there for 5 years (in a pre-sales role) I can't recommend the company highly enough. It was recently voted the 3rd best small company to work for in the UK and whilst I would never return to the UK, if I did then I'd be asking for my job back in a shot.
It might not work out for you long term but it'd give you at least a couple of months and you'd enjoy your time there.
Drop me an email (in trust) if you want some background/insider info
) as the road to there is terrible.
It wasn't too bad at all really - the lady who interviewed me was nice, but it was the way that those questions were asked that threw me a little bit. Why do you want to do law when you have done a biology degree? No problem. How will your biology come in use for being a lawyer? Much trickier - I ended up talking about problem solving and being methodical, which would have been a fairly sound answer but it was let down by my meandering delivery.
You can prepare all you can for competency interviews, but if the spin is different from what you are expecting it can be quite demanding to come up with a convincing answer!
I hope your interview went well
