In the real world
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:09 pm
Hi guys, thought I'd start up a new thread here about your openness about your TV experience in the real world.
With myself, I tend to keep my experiences a secret for those who don't know or never recognised me from it. Main reason is, doing it at a young age is certainly not out the ordinary and as much as a year after appearing on the show I got sick of the questions and people mentioning it to me because I just wanted to move on and lead a normal life. These days I just like posting here every now and then and reading the game reviews.
Also as well, do you guys put that you've been on Countdown on your CV? I had it on for a while and in a couple of previous jobs, interviewers inevitably asked me about it and in one job several years ago, everyone found out and it got the point where it became aggravating.
Since graduating from University, I've been to a couple of graduate assessment centres and one of the things you do when making a self-introductory is talking about your greatest achievement and assessors are looking for something that "stands out" Though my TV experience is certainly something "different" which would be great to mention, I've never had the guts to say it - obviously I'm incredibly proud of what I did, but couldn't really face the questions so to speak. For the record, I marginally failed them both and maybe I might have passed if I'd mentioned my "real" greatest achievement.
This also might be irrelevant, but with any of the respective jobs/occupations you guys have, has Countdown, helped/aided you to get your job, get a better job etc.
Interested to hear experiences.
With myself, I tend to keep my experiences a secret for those who don't know or never recognised me from it. Main reason is, doing it at a young age is certainly not out the ordinary and as much as a year after appearing on the show I got sick of the questions and people mentioning it to me because I just wanted to move on and lead a normal life. These days I just like posting here every now and then and reading the game reviews.
Also as well, do you guys put that you've been on Countdown on your CV? I had it on for a while and in a couple of previous jobs, interviewers inevitably asked me about it and in one job several years ago, everyone found out and it got the point where it became aggravating.
Since graduating from University, I've been to a couple of graduate assessment centres and one of the things you do when making a self-introductory is talking about your greatest achievement and assessors are looking for something that "stands out" Though my TV experience is certainly something "different" which would be great to mention, I've never had the guts to say it - obviously I'm incredibly proud of what I did, but couldn't really face the questions so to speak. For the record, I marginally failed them both and maybe I might have passed if I'd mentioned my "real" greatest achievement.
This also might be irrelevant, but with any of the respective jobs/occupations you guys have, has Countdown, helped/aided you to get your job, get a better job etc.
Interested to hear experiences.