Assessment Interviews can be fun. No really.

So I got up at the butt-crack of dawn to make it through the snow/hail/sleet/rain and sit through a wee presentation, then an interview, before filling out seven multi-page forms then sitting a computerised literacy and numeracy test. it was all in aid of a temping agency.

I had to do long division of complex numbers for the first time in ages. Without a pen and paper or calculator. The literacy was fine, just putting names in alphabetical order and selecting the word which matched the dictionary definition and other wordy-tasks. But the maths!! ARGH! I have Higher Maths and have just got a degree which needed an understanding of complex figures but calculating 6.5% of 413.4 in under 20 seconds in your head is HARD. VERY HARD. Anyways you got a little print-out at the end of all your results. I got 98% for the word-based stuff and 60% for the maths. The consultant-person who had interviewed me said that was good, and seemed pleased, and I know that other graduates there got scores lower than mine, so thats cool.

It did give me a push to look into other jobs, so I have just typed a cover letter for a job as an office junior in a financial firm. Im told they are expecting a school-leaver so I might be a pleasant surprise for them! I hope that means they dont expect me to know too much. Seriously,  I have a recurring nightmare about fax machines. I have never used one so I dont know how to work one. My nightmare usually consists of me being made “Chief-Faxer” and not succeeding in sending a single fax before being humiliated before the rest of the office and being fired. I need help.