Grovelling twat - truth is Sean scared you with his ‘pouch’ n boots. Speak like that again Fatso and… he knows where you live is all I am saying
A mini homoerotic cos-play Sean to remind you what could happen. Consider Sean a new kind of ‘Mod’ - Long black hair,dodgy facial hair, kinky boots and small cock… with a certain set of computer skills…you be nawty again and he will find you…
Well, I’m glad this all worked out, but I was kind of hoping for a poll on who was in the right… 
What the fuck is all this apologising bollocks? Have the balls to stand by what you said, you bunch of grovelling pussies.
Mr. Trampoline contemplates the meaning of life
He wears sandals whilst contemplating life? Fucking leftie 
He should get a fucking job, the lazy cu…oh…
Little update on applications:
KPMG: Done app. form. Passed tests. Passed 2-minute ‘digital audio submission’. May all be in vain as places might be full.
EY: Done app. form. Got an email saying that they’d received 'unprecedented levels of applications and will let me know.
Mazars: Failed situational judgement test.
Civil Service: Failed situational judgement test.
RSM: Done app. form. Passed tests. Waiting to be let through to next stage
BDO: Done app. form. Passed maths test. Done critical reasoning test & waiting for result - fairly confident.
National Audit Office: Done app form. Will do tests this weekend.
Kingston Smith: Done app form. Done tests - awaiting result but fairly confident.
Preqin: Went in for interview on Thursday. They told me they don’t have a space as yet but would let me know when one comes available. Not what I want to do & and the glassdoor reviews are nothing short of shocking but a job is a job and I’d be able to move out & embellish it on my CV.
Kingston Smith certainly appeals. They do a lot of work for charities and the not-for-profit sector so I’d find that very interesting. Plus they apparently still have places available for their Jan '17 intake so that’d be ideal.
EDIT: Ok passed the NAO test. Now I have to fill in an application form with 4 250-word questions. Effort but it makes more sense to do it that way round I’d say.
Little bit of advice on this… ignore Glass door… sorry but its for folks who expect a fucking blow job at their desk at 0930 every morning. ,The results are skewed by those pissied off with their employer… being pissed off is always a bigger motivator to critique than being happy…
Also, when starting out on a new path its not about finding a company that is going to give you a fucking blowjob at your desk every morning at 930. Its about getting experience… even bad experience is good because it gives you something tangible to talk about when interviewing with a better firm in 18 months… and a justifiable reason for leaving. The experience is what counts and if you can use real business situations in your examples of how Shitbros & sons acounting failed its clients, you will have a huge advantage against all the green grad scrotes…
Take what you can get, immerse yourself in it and use the experience to learn how you woudld improve things - you dont need to be right, you just need to be thinking about how you would improve client experience… that is really what the bigger firms are after… your ideas on how you maintain business through stronger trusting relationships with clients and you need real world examples…
So ignore the whingung cunts on glassdoor…
Hm, you say that mate but the bad reviews on glassdoor re. my old employer (the 17k scammy one) were downright accurate. This was an employer that literally showed up to work one morning and casually told a bunch of 22-year-olds that they were all being made redundant and that the jobs were being outsourced to India with no warning whatsoever. For that employer, the Glassdoor reviews were fair as can be.
Having said that, I can see this new place attracting a few more ‘princesses’ (the job is advertised as being in finance) so you may well be right.
Anyway, the Preqin job isn’t accountancy - it’s essentially callcentre work but it pays like £24-26k which isn’t bad from where I’m standing. The job title is ‘Research Analyst’ so I’d be able to jazz that up on my CV to look half decent. Only real issue is the practicalities of applying for jobs in accounting that I’m actually after - the phone interviews (maybe can be done in a lunch hour), the assessment days and partner interviews all add up to having to take a suspicious number of odd Tuesdays here/Wednesdays there and so on off work which can arouse suspicion.
Anyway, I shouldn’t complain. The fact that I wouldn’t be starting immediately is a good thing for this reason - it means I can rattle off these applications/get some phone interviews done and hopefully have a nice little pipeline up and running if and when I do start with Preqin.
… maintain ignore glassdoor… get experience in the field you want to work in. The key to differentiating yourself from 20,000 other grads with brains and ambition is real world experience… with a POV on how what you have learned from it… Client based service companies whether accounting, consulting or other build business through being trusted advisors - no need to spend days on responding to proposal requests when you helped your write it and are a shoe in… demonstrating how you solve real client problems and maintained and grew relationships no matter at what scale or for whatever shitty company is what makes you stand out…its a core competency for progression in these firms… one that is considered inate rather than something that should be taught
OK, well I guess I am following your advice in the sense that I certainly won’t turn down a job on account of the glassdoor reviews.
I’m fairly optimistic with this Preqin mob - as for them to interview me despite not having a vacancy open is quite encouraging. One of the interviewers asked me to send a couple of examples of my work (news articles) with a little accompanying commentary afterwards, which I did so yesterday. I’ll see how they react to that I guess - sounds like their staff turnover is quite high as well so I’d be quite surprised if there was nothing in that.
You’re certainly right in that a lot of job interviews are all about asking ‘competency-based questions’. So you definitely have more ammo for that with more experience.
High turnover can be a good thing if you know this is a stepping stone…will give you opportunity for rapid progression…and then when questioned about this at future interview… humbly putting that into context of high turnover, but you sticking it out because of the learning benefit will score highly… Its always about what you have learned and loyalty is not a bad thing
So Preqin got back to me and said they’d keep my CV on file and be in touch - so I guess that’s the result I was hoping for as I knew that there were no immediate available positions.
Just did a video interview for RSM which was weird. Aside from the strangeness of wearing a suit and sitting in front of your computer there’s also the slight feeling of injustice at having a shitty webcam and microphone potentially affect their decision.
Basically you were give a question and 60 seconds to prepare, after which a two-minute recording began. There were 4 questions in total. Certainly felt I could have done better but I guess its my first time doing anything like this. Its just incredibly unnatural trying to give an answer to a combination of a camera whilst glancing at a clock ticking down rather than speaking to a receptive listener ‘mmhmm-ing’ and ‘uh-huh-ing’ away with no massive time limit other than your own intuition of what’s too short and what’s too long.
Anyway, chalk it up to experience I suppose. I’d be doing something similar for BDO.
I’ve also got a phone interview with Kingston Smith on Tuesday next week so really hope I pass at least one of them.
Noticed this earlier and thought of you Mr T.
Don’t know if it’s any help as i haven’t had an interview in a long long time. What you describe above sounds fucking demeaning. I’d look for another career if that’s the way they treat people.
Which part?
Oh and thanks for the Guardian article. I’m pretty well-versed in the ‘STAR’ technique and so on! I guess I just struggled to articulate my answers all that well for the video interview.
Stick at it Mr T. I quite often put on special clothes and talk to the webcam. You get used to it.
All of it i’m afraid, but particularly the timed thing. What ever happened to talking face to face.
Anyway, stick at it if that’s what you want to do. It’s going to take anyone a while to get used to video interviews.
Ha! right.
Yeah its obviously a cost-cutting excercise from their point of view. I didn’t feel too hard-done-by having to do it, but just found it quite unusual really.
EDIT: Doing applications for Lloyds and Nationwide at the moment.
OK. Another update.
Did the phone interview for Kingston Smith and got through to their assessment centre on the 23rd Nov.
Passed the situational and numerical for Nationwide & (I think) passed the verbal given that I haven’t been sent a rejection email as yet.
Passed the tests for Lloyds and still waiting for the next stage.
Passed the initial test for the Civil Service’s HRMC tax thing and waiting to be let through to the maths/verbal.
Did the tests for EY and waiting for a result. Again, could go either way but I guess I do fancy my chances.