I don't even know what I'm asking or saying here. Not looking for too much advice necessarilly, just sayin': WAUGH! I'm overwhelmed. I feel like I should take a day off work to do all this.

First, please view the job description on our Web site for the position and explain what experiences you have that make you a good candidate for this position.

Second, why do you want to work for xxxx?

If you could create a position for yourself at xxxx, what would it be and what would you do in that position?

Please detail any experience you have with activism, not necessarily with animal rights.

Browse the xxxx web site and tell me what animal rights issue is most important to you and why.

Browse xxxx.com and tell me what you think might make it more effective. Any and all comments are most welcomed.

Have a look at our web site, review our stance on euthanasia and let me know if you agree or disagree and your reasons why or why not?

What do you think is the single most pressing problem animals face today?

The three most important things for this position are: 1) that you be organized, detail oriented, and able to keep track of a variety of projects and items at the same time; 2) that you are able to work well with multiple people and manage various personalities and communication styles (basically, that you have good people skills); and 3) that you work hard.

Can you please talk a bit about your capacities where these are concerned.

Tell me what you did in your last job that you’re most proud of.

Tell me about something creative that you did in your last job.

If you could change something about the way your last supervisor ran things, what would it be?

Give me an example of a time when on-the-job communication with a coworker, customer, or someone else was difficult or uncomfortable and how you handled the situation.

Give me an example of an obstacle that you had to overcome in your last job and how you did it.

Tell me about a time when you had to make a quick decision that you were proud of.

What sort of deadline pressure did you have to cope with in your last job?

Are you willing to relocate to Norfolk?
(For traveling positions only) Do you have any major infractions on your driving record? Due to the high cost of insurance, we cannot employ anyone who is an insurance risk.

Please let me know your salary requirements.

Oh, and please feel free to send me anything you’ve written, any other projects that you’re proud of, anything at all that you think shows you to be an intelligent, thoughtful, creative, and/or detail-oriented person. Please err on the side of sending too much information, rather than too little.

Thank you!

Waaaaugh!

Norfolk? PETA? (Don't answer if you don't want.) I have friends who work there. (One of whom sneaks out at lunch for hamburgers... heh.)

:-)

And if you take the job, and you're ever in Norfolk, look me the hell up! I'm buying!

As a militant animal rights supporter, I can't say that I agree with PETA[1]'s slightly misogynist yet spineless tactics, but I'm terribly envious of the opportunity to get a job doing something to stop the horrors humans inflict on animals. Good luck! If you're looking for work in other AR groups, lemme know, I might know some folks.

[1]. Are there really other AR groups in Norfolk? Apologies if I'm off, too

One of my friends who works at PETA is slammin' hot. Killer body. She has posed for PETA's latest ad, topless (with hands strategically placed), holding a string of sausages. My other friend who was telling me about this couldn't remember the exact slogan, but it was a definite knock on male meat-eaters and their "sausages". (It is unlikely this ad will get past any censors, though some of the ads that PETA has managed to get on billboards around here make me wonder.)

They had me at my friend, topless.

Sorry to slightly derail your thread, shane. Those questions are difficult. I always have a hard time with stuff like that. Good luck!

Thanks, all!

Hell, if you know ANY AR groups willing to hire for actual pay, I'd be interested! As it is, I do it practically full-time without pay, in addition to my day-job. I have a great shot at the HSUS, but only after I finish my degree, which will be at least a year.

Having spent most of my career (waaaaaaah! I used to have a career! waaaaaaaah!) in non profits, I gotta tell you that this sort of thing is SOP. The problem is, everyone on any nonprofit staff is so damn busy all the time putting out fires, they never have any time to do HR, so they come up with insanely detailed applications like the one you're faced with, thinking that will do the work for them. And then they are too busy to get back to the candidates, and then they get all dithery & weird about interviewing, because everyone has to be involved, see, because it's all a team effort and thus you may well end up coming back for several interviews with assorted people who you may or may not ever see again and it may all take longer than you would have believed humanly possible. At least that has been my experience from years of this stuff so if you don't hear back from them promptly, that is why.

Good luck shane; I envy you!

If they know what's good for them, shane, they'll hire you; I've never known anyone more willing and able to work his ass off for a good cause.

and if they don't hire you, I'm gonna kill this kitten:

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Well, taz, it's kill or be killed. That cat is ferocious!

Good luck. Take a deep breath and dive into the application. Finish it and sit on it without looking at it for at least a day (longer if you've got time), and then go back and rework it a bit. You'll do fine.

Wow. Thanks for all the insight and advice and well-wishes and support, folks.

taz, I'll show them the kitten. They'll hire me in no time.

Go get 'em, shane!

Wow!

If it were me, I'd re-order the questions in groups like this (some parts snipped for brevity's sake, though this still will be long, sorry):

First, please view the job description on our Web site for the position and explain what experiences [...]

Please detail any experience you have with activism, not necessarily with animal rights.

The three most important things for this position are: [...]. Can you please talk a bit about your capacities where these are concerned.


Tell me what you did in your last job that you’re most proud of.

Tell me about something creative that you did in your last job.

If you could change something about the way your last supervisor ran things, what would it be?

Give me an example of a time when on-the-job communication with a coworker, customer, or someone else was difficult or uncomfortable and how you handled the situation.

Give me an example of an obstacle that you had to overcome in your last job and how you did it.

What sort of deadline pressure did you have to cope with in your last job?

Tell me about a time when you had to make a quick decision that you were proud of.

Second, why do you want to work for xxxx?

If you could create a position for yourself at xxxx, what would it be and what would you do in that position?

Browse the xxxx web site and tell me what animal rights issue is most important to you and why.

Browse xxxx.com and tell me what you think might make it more effective. Any and all comments are most welcomed.

Have a look at our web site, review our stance on euthanasia and let me know if you agree or disagree and your reasons why or why not?

What do you think is the single most pressing problem animals face today?

Are you willing to relocate to Norfolk?
(For traveling positions only) Do you have any major infractions on your driving record? [...]

Please let me know your salary requirements.

Oh, and please feel free to send me anything you’ve written [...]

... and then tackle each group separately, putting in the transitions later. Just a thought.

Good luck with it!

Break a leg, shane!

It will be their loss if they don't hire you Shane. Hope this all works out the way you want it to.

Pass this on to them for me - I just killed a kitten and will kill another for every day they don't hire you. I don't fuck around with posting pictures first - actions speak louder than words (or photos).

Good luck.