Careers Gifts

Gender Differences: You can be anything when you grown up...

'So, you've no experience, no skills and a poor grasp of reality... Have you considered consulting?'

"You're the type who'll make me prove every claim I make."

'Mr Bagley, I'm afraid there's rather more to being a bishop than having your own hat.'

'Can you do more work then is humanly possible?'

'We'll keep your application on file and if we ever lower our standards...'

'Unfortunately our definition of 'job' differs.'

Cleaner in front of interview panel - 'So what makes you want to apply for the job of Equity Fund Manager?'

'Why did I become an accountant?' Well in truth I just threw a dart at the first page of the dictionary but becoming an aardvark was to difficult

Guidance Counselor - Hunting/Gathering.

'I became a superhero to do something less challenging. I had wanted to be a doctor.'

'I'm a wife, a daughter, a working mother...and you're asking me if I can MULTI-TASK???'

'We're not looking for someone with good leadership qualities so much as we're looking for someone with good herding instincts.'

"I don't have any qualifications, but I do have bags of energy and ethusiasm"

Something tells me his current firm aren't going to be happy to let him go!

"We offer 104 vacation days...otherwise known as weekends."

"Stress related sickness.. all nonsense. I've worked 80 hours a week for years and it's never done me any harm."

'Three letters of recommendation - do you have any from anyone other than your former wardens?'

'So, where do you see youself by June?'

'Of course, it's your business, but I wouldn't ever start a resume with 'Once upon a time in a land far far away!''

Change Machine.

'I'm writing an article about intuition of women in business.' - 'Just as I thought.'

'See, Baldwin? It's all about finding your niche.'

"Your resume shows you have had numerous jobs and in all of them you were rather invisible."

"Maybe I shouldn't ask where you see yourself in five years."

"Lost my job. But I'm pretty sure it's around here somewhere."

"You've got the job, but you've got to change your clothes."

"Hunting and gathering are okay, Dad, but I'd like to get into research and development!"

Danae's Celebrity Career: 'I don't know where to begin in deciding what I want to be when I grow up...I want people to shut and leave me alone, and I need lots of attention, so...'

'I didn't have time to prepare a resume.'

'Of course I know the difference between right and wrong! Wrong pays better!'

"I used to be a political lobbyist, then along came this chance to be a slug."

'This is the age of specialisation - you can't be a hunter AND a gatherer.'

"Well, Mr Macfarlane, what makes you think that you'd be a good fit for this firm?"

'You're exactly the kind of person we'd like to hire - to be replaced by a computer.'