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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:50 am
Congrats dude! 
What are your plans now?
I got a 2:2 degree in maths... and now successfully forgotten simple GSCE maths LMAO hahahahaha
What are your plans now?
I got a 2:2 degree in maths... and now successfully forgotten simple GSCE maths LMAO hahahahaha
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:54 am
A First... WOW! Pretty set for the big wild world then... Im only in my first year, got my results back 2 weeks ago. Passed with flying colours, lets hope that the next 2 years are the same!
Congrats again!
Phill.
Congrats again!
Phill.
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:11 pm
I just hope with a qualification like that your skills are much better than my brother's...
A* GCSE, B at A-level, and a 2.1 Honours BA, all in English.
Just come across his CV downstairs, with purple ballpoint marking all over it where some career advisor or someone has cut loose (he went off on a Careers In English week long course or somesuch)
Looks like the output of a year 9 student preparing for work experience. Thing was a forest of purple.
My own CV looked better (if I say so myself) when I was looking for my first job - this will be his fourth - and my english exam results were noticably worse.
Spelling mistakes all over it, particularly americanizations, very bad practise. Grammatical errors that, you wouldn't believe of all, people, a two thousand & five inglish graduate.
And massive overuse of the first person - for those that don't know, think of a selfdescription where EVERY sentence starts with "I" and has that letter-word scattered very liberally through it - its tiring to read and makes the writer seem very vain, as well as having a narrow vocabulary and no writing skill. For me, that particular error was something our English teacher ironed out when my class was in early teens.
Plus he highlights his "proficiency" with various PC apps including Word, when the formatting of the thing is total bobbins, and he clearly either can't even use the spelling/grammar checker, or alter the defaults (US spellings, mongy US grammar rules) if he does.
Even worse ... a claim of having "conversational" french and japanese, with "some" welsh... when it's most likely the other way round, these things are rarely a job-landing point unless you're jet-setting, and are just one more way for an employer to catch you out and highlight lies on the CV. He'd have trouble ordering lunch in any of them, let alone conducting business.
Not to mention the classic mistake of highlighting your interest in your "music collection" and what genre it is. THEY DON'T CARE, everybody has one, and it makes you look desperate!!!
WTF is going on with that?
(I know its unfair to judge on just one document, but this is the thing that should be getting him his first "real" job... and he wants to be an EDITOR! Needs to be flawless, for that post, don't you think? Whats his day to day writing like??)
Standard of qualifications must be dropping like a stone in this country.
at least i had a good excuse for cocking up on my own degree and getting a third - attended hardly any lectures, fluffed the exams, and only got half my dissertation finished. In fact... how did i pass at all???
Krupa ---- Media and Cultural Studies, I hope you rise to the very top of that field and never make a cockup! Gotta even the balance.
A* GCSE, B at A-level, and a 2.1 Honours BA, all in English.
Just come across his CV downstairs, with purple ballpoint marking all over it where some career advisor or someone has cut loose (he went off on a Careers In English week long course or somesuch)
Looks like the output of a year 9 student preparing for work experience. Thing was a forest of purple.
My own CV looked better (if I say so myself) when I was looking for my first job - this will be his fourth - and my english exam results were noticably worse.
Spelling mistakes all over it, particularly americanizations, very bad practise. Grammatical errors that, you wouldn't believe of all, people, a two thousand & five inglish graduate.
And massive overuse of the first person - for those that don't know, think of a selfdescription where EVERY sentence starts with "I" and has that letter-word scattered very liberally through it - its tiring to read and makes the writer seem very vain, as well as having a narrow vocabulary and no writing skill. For me, that particular error was something our English teacher ironed out when my class was in early teens.
Plus he highlights his "proficiency" with various PC apps including Word, when the formatting of the thing is total bobbins, and he clearly either can't even use the spelling/grammar checker, or alter the defaults (US spellings, mongy US grammar rules) if he does.
Even worse ... a claim of having "conversational" french and japanese, with "some" welsh... when it's most likely the other way round, these things are rarely a job-landing point unless you're jet-setting, and are just one more way for an employer to catch you out and highlight lies on the CV. He'd have trouble ordering lunch in any of them, let alone conducting business.
Not to mention the classic mistake of highlighting your interest in your "music collection" and what genre it is. THEY DON'T CARE, everybody has one, and it makes you look desperate!!!
WTF is going on with that?
(I know its unfair to judge on just one document, but this is the thing that should be getting him his first "real" job... and he wants to be an EDITOR! Needs to be flawless, for that post, don't you think? Whats his day to day writing like??)
Standard of qualifications must be dropping like a stone in this country.
at least i had a good excuse for cocking up on my own degree and getting a third - attended hardly any lectures, fluffed the exams, and only got half my dissertation finished. In fact... how did i pass at all???
Krupa ---- Media and Cultural Studies, I hope you rise to the very top of that field and never make a cockup! Gotta even the balance.
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:43 pm
I'm starting off as a journalist by doing a posgraduate diploma at Cardiff Uni next year, sounds like I'm going into the same line of work as your brother Tahrey!
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:53 pm
a bit higher up the ladder though (postgrad stuff has always looked hard when ive seen people at it), and your spelling seems a lot better 