Blimey... consider my wrists well and truly slapped!
Thanks for all the replies - the interview isn't until the 23rd. I know a bit more about it now though and it sounds like sales admin, dressed up as marketing, so I'm not even sure if I'm going to go.
Thanks anyway!!
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I have owned a 340 1.8, and two 440s 1.8s. The 340 and my first 440 had problems, mainly caused by bad servicing at the main dealer.
All of the cars were built in Holland by Carcorp, based in Born. The engine and drive train were Renault.
Somebody correct me if I get the following wrong:
When the Mauritz complex of coal mines at Geleen needed to close the Dutch government had to relocate 40 000 employees with the least disruption. Hence they set up industries to absorb same. DAF was an established manufacturer, with an interesting product. Carcorp was founded with DAF as a basis, and the Dutch government, Volvo, Renault and DSM Chemie as shareholders.
Later the drive train changed to Mitsubishi, and the S40 was built on the same production line as the Charisma.
How did I learn this ? I worked for a time for DSM Chemie at Geleen. Most of the Dutch lads had Volvos, and I followed suit.
Now that Ford own Volvo, whose drive train is used, anyone?
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PG
Worth investigating the job anyway, just for the interview experience, if nothing else.
Could even be a hilarious experience in how not to do it judging by some of the dealers I have visited on business in my present job.
Good luck.
Charles
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I second Charles...
Unless you have a prior that can't be avoided you should always go to interveiws, the practice is invaluable.
JaB
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There is also the aspect that it is much easier to get a job if you are already in one. Go for it!
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Apologies for digging this up again, and apologies to Mark for this not being motoring related... but...
I didn't go to the interview in the end as the salary just wasn't enough to live on. However, I got my degree results last week and I got a 2:1!! :)
(I'm not dwelling on the fact that I was only 4 marks off a first and maybe if I'd listened to NoDosh and spent more time on my dissertation I would have got one!)
Thanks to everyone in the Backroom for their advice and help over the last few months, and for keeping me (relatively) sane!
PG...off to find something motoring to post about now.
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PG Well Done!
Bit of a coincidenc though that you announce that at the same time my local news is telling me that there is a website that you can buy false degrees from British universities for £135!!
:)
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Ah, but PoloGirl's degree comes with a proper warranty :)
Well done, PG!
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HJ:
I just picked up on this one. You're a bad man.
Wait for the book.
PG: Congrats! my beautiful daughter also got a 2:1. I shall be visiting her on 7/16 to celebrate. That's if it's possible to celebrate in the fleshpots of Royal Tunbridge Wells that is, without exciting a flurry of letters to the Times from enraged pensioners.
She doesn't know it but she has a new car on the way.
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"That's if it's possible to celebrate in the fleshpots of Royal Tunbridge Wells"
LOL! I think it must be, though, as my daughter spent two years there doing her legal training (she also got a 2:1 as it happens) and she would certainly have complained if there hadn't been some facilities for R&R...
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"maybe if I'd listened to NoDosh and spent more time on my dissertation"
And less time on here! We'd have missed you though - well done.
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pg - congratulations.
I'm not dwelling on the fact that I was only 4 marks off a first and maybe if I'd listened to NoDosh and spent more time on my dissertation I would have got one!
official report which supports the view that your 4 marks deficit should be recognised:
"Proponents of the change point out that in a world where increasing numbers of school-leavers are going on to university, and where increasing numbers of graduates are coming out with 2.1 degrees, employers find it difficult to differentiate between them.
While the current system awards a 2.1 to students who score somewhere within a wide range of results (say anywhere between 60 and 69 percent), giving a direct percentage mark would make it obvious who had achieved a top result (say 69.5 percent) and who had achieved a little less (say 61 percent). A transcript would allow employers to see how students performed in particular papers and modules, rather than having to judge individuals on an average of results in all areas of the degree. ... "
www.spiked-online.com/Printable/00000006DA9A.htm
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Well done Polo Girl. I know you must have worked hard for the 2:1.
all my friends who got 1sts found it really hard to get jobs - maybe cause they had no life experience - unlike the 2:1 party animals.
Me....I got a 3rd! Serious partying involved there! (I wish - found out Chemistry isn't that easy!)
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Many congratulations, P.G.
We absolutely must have a graduation picci of you, clutching your "cardboard" degree - somwhat grubby from previous handling by nervous, sweaty hands - (and the silly hat!)
I know that our daughter's graduation photo will always have an honoured place on our wall!
Roger in Spain
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Let me add my congratulations PG.
I bet you're glad it wasn't the dreaded 'Desmond' 2.2.
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ST, are you going crazy ? By what standard did you think such a comment would be acceptable in here ?
I can\'t think what possessed you to post such a comment, but even the breath of something similar again will get you booted out of here as fast as I can.
Mark.
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PG
Well done, better than my Desmond (Tutu). Hope you have a future filled with financial success and (more importantly) happiness.
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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Can't offer any advice, PG, but congratulations anyway and good luck.
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Aw Shucks... thanks all :)
(Now...who wants to tell me what Sooty said?)
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PG
I tried to e-mail you with it, but message got returned.
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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Belated congratulations PG :-)
PP
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