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Hello-hello, everyone! We are back at it with another fresh lineup of Career (Con)Quest comics—an ongoing series showing the weird and sometimes even weirder realities of the job search.
If you’ve just landed here, it’s our third post (you can check Part 1 and Part 2 with 23 more comics total!) featuring the adventures of Sam—a talented, but slightly socially awkward electrical engineer doing his rounds of job applications and interview duties. And his HR girlfriend Hanna, popping in occasionally to give him some good tips.
Sam has already had kind of a whirlwind of a journey—weird interviews with a commercial space company or too-hip-to-be-true startups, a relocation job offer to the North Pole, along with a bunch of blown-up interviews and honest attempts to create the perfect resume (which is totally a myth).
Now, he’s no lion-tamer-sky-diver, but still, his fun adventures are nearing their end...
We are sharing the last bunch of comics here, and you are very much welcome to discover how the story ends at our website. We’ll be publishing the last 5 episodes there!
Spoiler alert: Our ending is way better than Game of Thrones, but it still comes with a pretty unexpected twist!
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#1
Final score:
33points
Billy the kid 5 years ago
I have always said about what are people wearing under the desks while on zoom
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#2
Final score:
23points
#3
Final score:
21points
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
I wanna know what will happen to kids who will be born in 50 years or so. When there r no jobs available . Jobs also provide self worth. It would be fun
Perpetual Peripheral Persons 5 years ago
Why would there be no jobs in 50 yrs?
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Final score:
21points
Astrid Nineor 5 years ago
Psh, I tried honesty for two years. Eventually got a job because I knew somebody who knew somebody
#5
Final score:
20points
#6
Final score:
16points
Troux 5 years ago
Manholes are round because with any other shape, you could drop the cover down if you turned it the wrong way. Impossible with a circle.
Keilana Ferenczy 5 years ago
Manhole covers are round because you can have just one person move them, by rolling it, rather than have two people lift a square or any other shape. Also, you wouldn't have to rotate it in order for the cover to fit in the hole, any way works. Interviewers may also ask how M&Ms are made. The chocolate centers are made in little molds, and then put in a big rotating drum, where they are covered in a white candy shell. The drum rotates to get them evenly covered and so they don't stick together. Then they are divided off into separate rotating drums to be covers in the colored candy shell. They are then moved onto conveyor belts with little M&M shaped indents to be stamped with the letter M in edible white ink. These questions are often to test your ability to make up a good, reasonable explanation to a random question on the spot, and to sound confident while answering. They test your ability to make up a convincing answer without sounding stupid, in a nutshell.
#19
Final score:
6points
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
That “entry level” job requiring 5 years experience thing just makes my blood boil. I’m trying to change careers, and may have related experience but not direct. Entry level is where you get that experience, HR! 👏That’s 👏 Why 👏 It’s 👏 Called🤞ENTRY🤞 Level !!!
#21
Final score:
5points
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
Actually, multitasking is a myth. Unless everything’s automated, you can only 100% concentrate on one thing at a time. If you try to do more than one thing requiring your attention, you’re merely dividing your attention—-something those who insist you multitask do not seem to understand. For example, if you’re trying to write an email and talk on the phone, you’re not giving each 100% (there is NO 200%). You can only realistically give each 50% of your attention. The more tasks you add, the smaller the fractions get. However, if you wrote some of the email, then put it aside to answer the phone, finish the call, and go back to the email, then that’s 100% attention to each, but it isn’t multitasking. So those who tell you they can multitask several things at the same time and give them all 100% are either bad at math or lying.
#22
Final score:
5points
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Thing is, most of them will try to pin you down first by insisting you put a number in the blank. Not very fair, because it doesn’t give you any negotiation room—-and if you put a slightly higher number down just to give you a little wiggle room, they won’t even consider you because they think you’re too expensive. Catch-22.
KCN 5 years ago
The first person who mentions a number loses. So hard to deal with!
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
Genuine question. How do employed people manage interviews working 9 to 5 with an hour of lunch break?
Troux 5 years ago
Typically by using personal time off, might even be faking a doctor's appointment to explain only taking an hour or two.
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Little Dino 5 years ago
I like the art style and you are very talented! Please continue to make more :)
Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
Genuine question. How do employed people manage interviews working 9 to 5 with an hour of lunch break?
Troux 5 years ago
Typically by using personal time off, might even be faking a doctor's appointment to explain only taking an hour or two.
Load More Replies... Little Dino 5 years ago
I like the art style and you are very talented! Please continue to make more :)
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