Unemployman vs The Job Application

By Chris Sav - 17th January 2014

As it’s January and I need to sort my life out, I’ve spent this week filling out job application forms – this process includes: trying to recall my GCSE grades (that B in Religious Studies is totally going to land me the admin assistant job), copying and pasting my employment history (thus ruining the format of the little boxes of the form, which, for some reason is a little upsetting), and staring at the ceiling, thinking of ways to describe why I’m not boring and incompetent in 500 words or less (still working on that one).

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Chris Sav

Chris is an artist, writer and occasional jam maker. He is co-writing a philosophy cookbook as part of a preserve concocting double team known as Jammatology.…

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