Graduate Scheme applications

5v3d3b0 · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Karma :

I heavily underestimated how bloody long these take to do!
Some of them are taking me hours and hours to do, because of the essay based questions they have. I'm a bit worried that I'm spending 5 hours on some that I might not even get an interview for Confused

And at the same time if I don't do them well enough I won't get anything at all so there's really no way around it.
Anyone else struggling with this?

Robby · Dirty Old Man Joined: 16 May 2002 Karma :

You're concerned about spending 5 hours applying for a job that could start your lifelong career.

Diddums.

Irn-Bru · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Aug 2009 Karma :

If you want an easy job application mcdonalds' is probably a page or 2 long Thumbs Up

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5v3d3b0 · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Karma :

Well when you put it like that... It's just hard when you feel you need to apply to 20 different places to have a chance at getting in anywhere, and each of those take that long.
Some of the questions I do understand the importance of though, like: Why do you want to work for us.
If a candidate hasn't researched the company at all then it's obvious when they answer the question and they can get tossed in the bin straight away.

Benno · World Chat Champion Joined: 06 May 2012 Karma :

I'm with you. All of these stupid applications expect you to take hours and hours filling in all these ridiculous questions like "What was your greatest achievement to date? 1000 words" or "Tell us about a time when you solved a complex problem using unconventional methods - 1000 words"

It takes hours to do them, and to have any chance of an interview you've got to do hundreds - I've done about 55-60 now, and not even had a phone call apart from one guy calling as a courtesy since his company calls all applicants as a matter of course.

It's total rubbish. Do AOSB and go to Sandhurst instead, that's what I'm considering except I'm fortunate enough to have done AOSB before they privatised it.
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Nick 50 · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Jul 2011 Karma :

Svedebo, can i ask what you have a degree in?
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5v3d3b0 · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Karma :

I'm in my final year of Computing and Management at Loughborough Uni. I'm aiming for a first but will most likely end up with a 2:1 (that's what I've put down as my expected grade on all my applications)

james1988 · World Chat Champion Joined: 06 May 2010 Karma :

What grad schemes are you applying for, out of interest?
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Nick 50 · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Jul 2011 Karma :

Are there many jobs around in the graduate scheme? Well enough for them to come to the uni asking for graduates?
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5v3d3b0 · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Karma :

I decided I don't want a job in IT so I'm applying to business related jobs.
So far I've done:
Toyota
Jaguar Land Rover
Royal Bank of Scotland
Deutsche Bank
Tesco
Morrisons
Bloomberg

and I'll also apply to IBM, Lloyds Banking Group, P&G and maybe a few more.
Then if I get absolutely nothing I'll apply to some smaller companies in the summer.

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Mixed degrees generally aren't peoples first choice
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Army cut-off is 26 though, right?

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5v3d3b0 · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Karma :

Yeah i most definitely need to do more than that.
I don't know about army stuff cause I'm not from the UK…
Also on a side note I'm fluent in Swedish and Spanish which will hopefully give me at least a tiny advantage over someone who doesn't.

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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

Kids these days... might have to spend FIVE HOURS writing to get a job - too much effort.

Complains they can't get a job.

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5v3d3b0 · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Karma :

Spending 5 hours writing to get a job is fine, it's when you're applying to 30 places and therefore spending 150 hours to MAYBE get a job, when exams are 2 weeks away (my fault for not getting on this earlier)

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5v3d3b0 · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Karma :

I got "invited" to do the next stage in the selection process for Morrison's and Deutsche Bank, which were a situation test and numerical reasoning test respectively.
When you get to the stage of doing one of these do you think that means they've looked at the CV etc and said that's good enough to do the next thing, or is it more a case of the tests supporting your application to make you more or less viable?