1) Doing the funky air grab trying to get back your application when youve sent it in with the wrong company name copied and pasted in.
2) The pain of inputting your GCSE grades for the 75th time that night
3) Receiving an automated email straight after you have filled in an hour long application thanking you for your efforts but rejecting you outright
4) Trying to concentrate on a skills test thrust upon you at the end of an application whilst your housemates cause all sorts of unwanted distractions
5) Clicking next, only to be greeted with a timeout error and all of your work vanishes??furiously clicking back to retrieve
6) Applying for jobs posted by recruitment consultants that dont really exist
7) Doing a group task at an interview and being unable to get a word in edgeways as the rest love the sound of their own voice
8) Guessing all the answers on a reasoning test cos you havent got a clue
9) Including every single bit of qualification to make your UCAS points add up to 380
10) Citing exams as the ability to handle pressure cos you only once cried like a toddler
11) Listed socialising as one of your interests as a codeword for likes to drink
12) Putting the salary scale to £38,000 + on Prospects and applying for those jobs alone
13) Applying to Aldi as you like the sound of £40k and an Audi A4
14) Declaring your passion for numerical analysis roles and stating that it is the only thing you have ever wanted to do
15) Googled Times Top 100 and been through every conceivable online application form with a success strike rate of 0%
16) LinkedIn stalked every head of graduate recruitment and got excited when they viewed your profile back
17) Panic set the privacy on Facebook after you attended a talk that told you recruiters looked at your profile
18) Ditto Twitter
19) Ditto Instagram
20) Downloaded a CV template off the internet only to cry after you can barely fill it
21) Copied and pasted a cover letter citing your desire to work as a salesman and sent it to a HR department
22) Declared an undying love for all things Human Resources
23) Panicking and crying. Repeatedly
24) Looking at your student loan balance and laughing cos youll never earn enough to trigger the payback
