Daily experience of an autistic

Greetings, and perhaps starting a new sub-Thread yet it is on topic with the Main Topic... and only one day to go...?

Concerning all that was listed in the introduction (maths, grammar, etc.), was this graded in some manner and did you "Ace" it, I should suspect? When given tests like this I simply get a sort of grumble or suspicious look, as if they are startled that I still know how to write correct English (at my age)...

My diary for next week.

Monday

Appointment with mental health employment advisor.

Appointment with job centre work coach.

Tuesday

All day with learndirect course

Thursday

Job fair at job centre.  Must attend, it's part of my jobsearch agreement.

Friday

'ESS assessment at MIND charity.  It's to do with their funding from the European social fund.

Robert124 said:

'ESS assessment at MIND charity.  It's to do with their funding from the European social fund.

Oh, I see, this is the sinking ship scenario!

I’ve saved that post so I can read about it later on or on a different day. I’m very interested but my mind isn’t quite taking it in just now. 

What it's about.  See my post above from kent.ac.uk 

I did ok in the group.  The actual personal interview and lack of relevant experience let me down.  I asked for feedback.

It is :-) I have no idea what I said or how I acted during that group interview, I just remember it going on for hours, I remember the sinking ship scenario, I remember wondering what it was all about and I remember I didn’t get the job! lol! 

I did the lifeboat scenario, last year for a telephone customer support worker at the city council offices.  Didn't get the job either.

It's a small world.

I was asked to do the lifeboat scenario at a half day interview for working at Asda. I didn’t get the job! 

I suspect that the assessors will be looking for something like this criteria.

https://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/teamwork.htm

Considering almost everything else here, given as Tests or Checks, I myself would probably wind up in jail. (Plus I always carry a Rucksack)...

Um, me again. Finally a serious answer from someone else (?)...I was going to write that, considering this particular scenario (sinking ship lifeboat)... I did a little look upon the rest of the InterWeb about it, and that suggested that it is an "Ethical" test: i.e. tests anyone's sense of Ethics....

The given solutions seem to be <>... 1- Save all children, 2- Save any women who are currently "with children", and 3- save someone who can best take care of children. That is what I found, anyway...

Robert124 said:

We will be given a situation of maybe 15 people on a sinking ship and a lifeboat that will only take 6 .  The group task is to determine which 6.  While the group dynamics are observed by the examiners.  I'm terrified.

Thoughts:

1) Try not to be terrified. It won't help you handle the situation better. Being a bit nervous is fine. The adrenaline might give you the mental edge you need. 

2) I could be wrong, but I very much doubt that the exercise will actually be about picking 6 people to survive and ensuring 9 people all die. It's just not the sort of thing they do on courses. The media would have a field day: "Nazi Euro training course churns out fascist customer service reps" -- Daily Fail. 

3) I suggest two things that the examiners might be looking for:

a) whether the team is able to spot any potential ways to save everyone concerned, or simply assumes that the 6 folk on the lifeboat will be the only way to survive. 

b) do the team become paralysed and unable to reach a decision, putting EVERYONE at risk. There are four basic methods of situational leadership -- telling, selling, delegating and participating. There is a time and a place to use each one. But if the boat is sinking, the captain does NOT say, "let's all sit in a circle and discuss how we all feel about this..."(!) 

I can see that sitting inside a sinking ship wouldn't have been a lot of fun. 

If you are outside the ship now, I do hope you remembered to keep your distance as she's going down?

Sorry, didn't mean to cause confusion.

I would be terrified about that exercise too, it's an awful task. I know two people who have been in such a situation (think they were 12 or so and had two life suits which later turned out would also have leaked if anyone had worn them, but nobody did), quite precisely a year ago off the coast of Svalbard, and just watching them when we heard about that Russian helicopter that crashed into the sea not far from there a couple of weeks ago I think it is absolutely pervert to use this as a scenario for such a course where they could use anything somewhat challenging.

Sorry, didn't mean to cause confusion.

I would be terrified about that exercise too, it's an awful task. I know two people who have been in such a situation (think they were 12 or so and had two life suits which later turned out would also have leaked if anyone had worn them, but nobody did), quite precisely a year ago off the coast of Svalbard, and just watching them when we heard about that Russian helicopter that crashed into the sea not far from there a couple of weeks ago I think it is absolutely pervert to use this as a scenario for such a course where they could use anything somewhat challenging.