For the job application writer

Since the whole university graduation thing is coming up quite soon, there has been quite a lot of time spent doing applications for jobs. Most of these applications have questions tacked onto them, and you have to answer them to finish your application. Now, most of these questions are quite irrelevant to the topic at hand i.e. how you're suitable for the job. They ask you the about a whole scenario - what was the situation, what did you do, and what was the outcome, for a whole bunch of things. For example, "Describe a time when you used teamwork..." etc. The whole idea is that your past behaviour is probably a fairly good indication of your future behaviour. However this relies on the idea that the person being asked the questions doesn't lie. A fairly far fetched assumption in an interview environment where they're not really going to know if you do.

So what caught me out the other day while I was doing one of these applications was this question: "Why are you suitable for ?" Then I realised - I'm not. There is no way I'm really quite suitable for a company which designs and builds large physical structures from the ground up. I have no idea whats involved, there is little that attracts me to something of that nature, and the whole idea is kind of well... unsuitable.

I guess this is a lesson to the people who actually write these applications. Perhaps they should put in more of these questions because they're hard, they'll weed out the people who aren't suitable, and its another question to add to the application.