Honesty in graduate applications
Yesterday, I was talking about interviews for graduate positions and the typical questions they ask- one being "where do you see yourself in 10 years time?"
If I was to answer that honestly, I have no idea who would want to employ me. Honestly, in 10 years time, I hope to be happily married with a child, with my career definitely on the back burner if not on an indefinite hold. What employer would want to hear that???
I guess in ten years time (assuming I'm still working at that stage!) I'd hope to be involved in work that is rewarding...that makes a difference to someone. After doing my attachment in Singapore, I found the work I was doing was fun (I disturbingly discovered that I quite like looking for legal loopholes and finding a way to make documents say what you want them to say, despite what your average person would think it said), and I liked working with big fat high profile clients and in a nice highrise swanky office....but I do think at the end of the day, I'd rather do something that would make a difference to a person's life, as opposed to a company's bottom line (and don't get me on some round-a-bout argument that company bottom lines do make a difference to people's lives...that is not what I'm talking about!)
Now will someone please phrase that into a pithy little employer-friendly answer for me?
(By the way, I just heard Anthony Callea's new single Rain...it sounds SO MUCH LIKE A SONG THE BACKSTREET BOYS WOULD SING IT'S NOT FUNNY. He belongs in a BOY BAND. Note that in the chorus of the song they've produced it so that it sounds like several voices are singing it instead of just his solo voice. Argh!)

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