Careers Prints

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?'

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

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

'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.'

'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.

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

'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???'

'Your only choices are hunter, gatherer or hunter-gatherer. What the #&%! is accounting?'

'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."

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

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

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

Change Machine.

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

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

'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!''

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

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

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

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...'

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

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

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

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

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

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