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Feb. 22nd, 2010 02:38 pmSo... I've just hit 'send' for an application to do microscopy at the Cambridge department of Zoology (Imaging Specialist, Research Associate with the Developmental Biology Group, to be completely a. about it).
I know next to nothing about microscopy, but the vacancy notice curiously doesn't specify that you must. In fact, it specifies curiously little, considering it's a £27,319 to £ 36,464 gig. One would have thought they might have thrown in something random into the "Essential" bit - expert in Sinclair Spectrum Basic, able to pull off a frontside-360-ollie on a skateboard, be able to tell a merlot from a pinot noir. That would at least cut down on the workload of whoever's sifting the application.
Which all kind've leads me to assume that nobody's going to be reading them, as the vacancy has already been marked down to somebody, and they're going through the motions for the sake of HR policy box-ticking. In a way, that's a vague relief as I find it hard to talk about myself full stop, never mind writing myself up in cringe-making, estate-agent, salesman, nonsense language. I just hope I don't get an interview, as that would be a wasted afternoon traveling down there, to add to the wasted afternoon doing the application.
I know next to nothing about microscopy, but the vacancy notice curiously doesn't specify that you must. In fact, it specifies curiously little, considering it's a £27,319 to £ 36,464 gig. One would have thought they might have thrown in something random into the "Essential" bit - expert in Sinclair Spectrum Basic, able to pull off a frontside-360-ollie on a skateboard, be able to tell a merlot from a pinot noir. That would at least cut down on the workload of whoever's sifting the application.
Which all kind've leads me to assume that nobody's going to be reading them, as the vacancy has already been marked down to somebody, and they're going through the motions for the sake of HR policy box-ticking. In a way, that's a vague relief as I find it hard to talk about myself full stop, never mind writing myself up in cringe-making, estate-agent, salesman, nonsense language. I just hope I don't get an interview, as that would be a wasted afternoon traveling down there, to add to the wasted afternoon doing the application.
