@Chrispydelic 554734 wrote:
So what should I do GL? Should I dumb down my CV in terms of qualifications and then play it a little less sharp if I ever make it to interview (I think being a little to wordy and knowledgeable is what failed me on my last interview.
People seem to want, dumb caveman-like employees!
Intelligence seems to be more of a drag than an asset.
I’m surprised they asked for a CV at all for a temp retail job, it was normally just application forms.
But even when I was a paid broadcast engineer my then employers (who later went bust and were bought out by a competitor) didn’t want you to “know too much”.
also its not that easy to pose as someone you are not (for instance whilst I could possibly blag my way into the British Telecom research centre even without a pass card by posing as a contract worker, I would not be able to keep the accent up long enough and would start sounding more like a 1970s sitcom character and eventually slip back into Estuary English and thus get rumbled)
TBH I don’t thnk they even want the US-inspired cult style devotion to the company, as they know we British don’t go for that, they just want someone who they can either trust or is too dumb to try and sophisticated fraud. especially as a very posh graduate from a good family landed a job as marketing manager at tesco, and promptly caned a company credit card for several tens of thousands to bankroll a music festival. He was nicked and sent to jail for fraud, the saddest thing about this is his family net worth and his legit career would have enabled him to get the credit perfectly legitimately.
