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DiscordTiger

The Queen of Random

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Emerald City, United States (g

#1

Dec 02, 2013 @ 20:45:45

So, I am filling one out. Holy cow they have gotten way more complicated. It used to be the resume had all the nitty gritty, and now they are more accomplishment based, and the application has all the boring duty stuff.

Anyway, So there is this section in mine for:
Licenses, Skills, Certificates, and Additional Information:
With categories for:
Licensees, certificates, special skills, technical skills, publications, awards, awards associations, volunteer work.

So WTF is "special skills"?
Like I seriously think they probably don't mean: being able to stand on only my left foot, and balance a stack of books, while clearing a printer jam.
Or being a "Book whisperer" (being able to find a lost book, seriously out of place, with freaky level accuracy)

Technical skills I understand, but where do I stick things like customer service, being able to diffuse difficult user situations, writing skills, etc. Basically all the other skills they list as "required or preferred" for the job. Did what I think of basic skills somehow become special? Or am I missing something totally obvious.

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DiscordTiger

The Queen of Random

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Emerald City, United States (g

#2

Dec 02, 2013 @ 21:30:16

I'm about to add: Giving the building the death stare of acknowledgement. So it behaves and stops giving false alarms for attention.

Maybe I should have made this a journal.

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floydgirrl

Stalkee

Pope's Wine Celler, Holy See (

#3

Dec 02, 2013 @ 21:32:59

Thread is fine.
I don't know what special skills are.

I would assume communication, dealing with difficult people, or problem solving skills would be something on there.

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yami

Banned

grimsby, United Kingdom

#4

Dec 02, 2013 @ 21:38:22

Good luck wive the job app.

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Conflict

Alcalá de Henares, Spain

#5

Dec 02, 2013 @ 22:12:38

The situation is more complicated than it used to be. Once upon a time, you could become a doctor by getting a high school diploma, someone, somewhere told me. Now, you need a certain number of years at medical school, depending on what it is you wish to specialise in. I don't know what time period this refers to, but I would imagine that it wasn't later than the 1950's. After World War II, some advancements were made, so the bar was raised and medicine became a more complex discipline.

This applies to job applications that have high standards. I would think that special skills refers to what subjects you specialise in. In today's age, you need to know more than the people that came before you, now, more than ever.

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cadiris

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Stirling, United Kingdom

#6

Dec 02, 2013 @ 23:11:26

@DiscordTiger Said

So, I am filling one out. Holy cow they have gotten way more complicated. It used to be the resume had all the nitty gritty, and now they are more accomplishment based, and the application has all the boring duty stuff.

Anyway, So there is this section in mine for:
Licenses, Skills, Certificates, and Additional Information:
With categories for:
Licensees, certificates, special skills, technical skills, publications, awards, awards associations, volunteer work.

So WTF is "special skills"?
Like I seriously think they probably don't mean: being able to stand on only my left foot, and balance a stack of books, while clearing a printer jam.
Or being a "Book whisperer" (being able to find a lost book, seriously out of place, with freaky level accuracy)

Technical skills I understand, but where do I stick things like customer service, being able to diffuse difficult user situations, writing skills, etc. Basically all the other skills they list as "required or preferred" for the job. Did what I think of basic skills somehow become special? Or am I missing something totally obvious.

The good thing is that when things get harder, more people give up. If you persevere your sure to get ahead of the people who will take one look at the form and throw it in the rubbish!

Personally I would google everything on the form 'special skills' etc, find out exactly what they want to see on that form and give it your best shot.

It's either that or your on the jobseekers and treated less that human. Sooner or later your going to have to fill these kinds of things in, you may as well start now!
Look at it this way, once your in a job you won't have to look at those things again.

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Edited: December 02, 2013 @ 23:13

psycoskunk

Funky-Footed Skunk

A fort made of stinky socks, C

#7

Dec 03, 2013 @ 00:41:55

As ridiculous as it may sound, I think that the writing skills, dealing with difficult customers, etc. would probably be listed under "Special Skills." Because while it pertains to the job, it's not really directly associated with other "technical skills" somehow.

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floydgirrl

Stalkee

Pope's Wine Celler, Holy See (

#8

Dec 03, 2013 @ 00:53:20

Tiger, when you are done with your resume and filling out job applications, will you please start on some for me me?

K thanks bye!

Floydie

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DiscordTiger

The Queen of Random

Administrator

Emerald City, United States (g

#9

Dec 03, 2013 @ 00:58:11

@floydgirrl Said

Tiger, when you are done with your resume and filling out job applications, will you please start on some for me me?

K thanks bye!

Floydie

Well, ok,

Only because you did not ask for a cover letter. Cover letters suck donkey balls.

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floydgirrl

Stalkee

Pope's Wine Celler, Holy See (

#10

Dec 03, 2013 @ 01:16:55

@DiscordTiger Said

Well, ok,

Only because you did not ask for a cover letter. Cover letters suck donkey balls.

Oh, see well, the cover letter was sort of implied there...

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psycoskunk

Funky-Footed Skunk

A fort made of stinky socks, C

#11

Dec 03, 2013 @ 01:17:57

@DiscordTiger Said

Well, ok,

Only because you did not ask for a cover letter. Cover letters suck donkey balls.

I've found that making a cover letter template helps out because you can just modify what you need to, but the introduction and conclusion more or less stays the same. Nothing to fancy or wordy, just something to get your possible employer's attentions.

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Eaglebauer

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Saint Louis, Missouri

#12

Dec 03, 2013 @ 01:20:28

The most ridiculous application process I had to go through was for a job working dispatch for the police department in a suburb of St Louis.

First there was a 50 page application packet. Then a credit check. Then a psychological evaluation which consisted of a 750 item questionnaire about myself, an interview with a psychologist during which I had to arrange a shuffled deck of cards by suit and rank while reciting the alphabet backwards (no I'm not making that up), then an intelligence test, then a typing test. Then I underwent a polygraph examination to make sure I hadn't ever committed any major crimes that I was trying to conceal, a board interview, a second polygraph, and then the police department had a detective do a full background investigation on me.

Believe it or not, most of this is not out of the ordinary for a position doing what I do. I didn't accept the position in this case because I was offered a higher paying one in the center I'm working at now.

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Edited: December 03, 2013 @ 01:21

floydgirrl

Stalkee

Pope's Wine Celler, Holy See (

#13

Dec 03, 2013 @ 01:29:37

@Eaglebauer Said

The most ridiculous application process I had to go through was for a job working dispatch for the police department in a suburb of St Louis.

First there was a 50 page application packet. Then a credit check. Then a psychological evaluation which consisted of a 750 item questionnaire about myself, an interview with a psychologist during which I had to arrange a shuffled deck of cards by suit and rank while reciting the alphabet backwards (no I'm not making that up), then an intelligence test, then a typing test. Then I underwent a polygraph examination to make sure I hadn't ever committed any major crimes that I was trying to conceal, a board interview, a second polygraph, and then the police department had a detective do a full background investigation on me.

Believe it or not, most of this is not out of the ordinary for a position doing what I do. I didn't accept the position in this case because I was offered a higher paying one in the center I'm working at now.

I had to do a psychology test for the job before the job I have now. It was some long a** questionnaire that I somehow passed. I think I cheated.

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Eaglebauer

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Saint Louis, Missouri

#14

Dec 03, 2013 @ 01:31:19

@floydgirrl Said

I had to do a psychology test for the job before the job I have now. It was some long a** questionnaire that I somehow passed. I think I cheated.

Did it have some really weird questions on it? Like a true/false section where one of the statements was "I have never seen a car" and then some of the questions repeated throughout the test in a few different ways?

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floydgirrl

Stalkee

Pope's Wine Celler, Holy See (

#15

Dec 03, 2013 @ 01:33:28

@Eaglebauer Said

Did it have some really weird questions on it? Like a true/false section where one of the statements was "I have never seen a car" and then some of the questions repeated throughout the test in a few different ways?

yes. Like do you think blue is a color, and then 30 questions later, blue is not a color.

It took forever too.

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