From this psychotic clown's experience... just imagine yourself as the perfect applicant, and lie your heart out. At least then if you fail, you had no idea what the job was about anyway. And if you got the job, you got what you wanted.

Of course whether you had the first clue about doing the job or not is irelevant, coz you have the job now and the salary it commands. And the twits that hired you are stuck with their decission for at least the contacted period. Many "pretenders" use this as their step into a new career... plumber one day, brain surgen the next.

Don't laugh too hard, you may need surgery one day.

Just watch out for the questions where they cunningly rephrase the same question that they asked 3 pages back just to see if they can catch you lying!

Turn up in bus driver shorts, with socks pulled up, a pocket protector in your shirt pocket, and a coke in hand and you'll be fine..

I did one many years ago, they ask questions like

"If you were on a development team, would you prefer to give presentations about the software to clients or work in a back room cutting code?"

There's no correct answer, they're just trying to find out what you'd prefer to be doing so that can make the most of your skills. If they're looking for a salesman and you'd prefer to be a backroom techo, then the jobs probably not for you. Just answer honestly and research the company as much as possible (google is your friend) to show you're interested.

The IT job market is really starved of good people at the moment. We find it really hard to get good IT staff. The last 2 we hired we had to get from O/S.

I wish i had a personality, instead i have four!

I must say one good thing about IT is that you can work pretty flexible hours, and even remotely although most managers are still unfairly suspicious about it.

Damn it, I should work remote. I've had no need to see anybody face-to-face in weeks.

cwamit said...

I wish i had a personality, instead i have four!

No, that's stomachs, isn't it?

If your first post on this forum is how to pass a personality test, I suspect that you probably don't have one. So when they ask if you have a personality, just say NO.