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Smidster

November5th wrote: »

Been put up for job, have interview time sent, then recruiter asked for details of my qualification for her cover not. I only have five olevels and have been trained by companies or self taught for my skills. Will this be a problem?

Just send them the details of whatever qualifications you have while adding other skills you have acquired whilst in employment.

Another useless day for me today...the one time you see a job you could do it is a flipping apprenticeship

Chartered_Eng

November5th wrote: »

Been put up for job, have interview time sent, then recruiter asked for details of my qualification for her cover note. I only have five olevels and have been trained by companies or self taught for my skills. Will this be a problem?

It rather depends upon the job, are qualifications a pre-requisite?

There are two ways of looking at this question. One is that recruiters filter by qualifications to get the number of applicants down. It's being lazy but when faced with three figure numbers of applicants then it can be understood. The second way of looking at it is company training and being self taught shows motivation, dedication and an ability and willingness to learn.

You already have your foot in the door with the interview so the first view becomes irrelevant. What you have to do at the interview is sell yourself on the second view.

Good luck

Stew68

Evening all,

Yes, I did start my job this morning. It really isn't anything special, it's just picking stock in the stores and then putting them in locations ready to be built into machines. I've been on my feet all day and they're killing me now.

Still, there is plenty of opportunities for overtime (when my feet get hardened up!) and i'm actually around people rather than being sat at home by myself getting depressed. After ten months of not working just being employed again makes up for the job.

Sorry so many of you have had bad days today, I just hope there are better days coming up for you later in the week. Good luck to those with interviews and those waiting to hear back from the interviews you've had.

Stay strong and keep the faith.

soupdragon10

Signed on officially for the first time today. Gave over my list of activities for the past week and really expected to be told I should do more. Got a smile and 'you seem to be doing all the right things' see you next time.

Sun was shining as well. No more jobs to apply for atm, still waiting to hear about job I had i/v for on Friday.

Well done Drea - sounds as though things are moving in the right direction for you.

Stewie - hope your feet hold out - have you tried the cushioned shoe inserts - I found them a godsend when I had to do a lot of walking.

November5th

Morning all.

Good luck today Drea!

Looks like the qualification thing wasn't vital (they had loved my CV and offered the interview before this and recruiter says it is fine).
When I get a job I will start doing courses, most are just £500 2 day courses to get the qualification in various software packages and project management environments.

Bit panicked today, want to make sure my notes are going to help me rather than over do it, when you don't have the paper quals it is a harder interview to show that you have the skills.

So maybe three documents:
Answers to questions about my CV
Answers to things on job spec
My own top tens that apply to the skills requested (proof of knowledge)

Then all at the same time have a winning personality! I swear the planets have to align to hit all my marks

livermum

Good Morning,

When is your interview November?

November5th

livermum wrote: »

Good Morning,

When is your interview November?

Tomorrow afternoon

Every time I have to do solid prep for an interview I get better and better I hope, in the long run this experience of having to get myself across in the interview situation will be very valuable, and may I not get so out of touch with it again!

Smidster

hmmmmm

I applied a bit ago for a Cashier role with Santander and have been asked to arrange a telephone interview. When I did this I was told that this is an 'on-call' vacancy with a guaranteed 1 hour per month.

Anyone have any experience with such things - e.g. how many hours would be an average.

I have booked the interview on the basis that interview experience is always a good thing but am not sure what I will do if offered the job.

lexilex

BodyElectric wrote: »

You need to get away from it and do something else this is not healthy.

I wish it was that easy but it does turn into an obsession, not wanting to miss out on anything, feeling like you have to spend all day looking so you're not seen as lazy, or a scrounger!

Anyway, morning! Nothing again so far, the last two weeks have been really awful. Everyone is telling me to start my own business, but nobody is saying in what area! I really want to do it, not so much for the money but just to have something to focus on.

Good luck with the interviews Drea, a month since my last one

jay_1978

Hope everyone is having better luck this week, Me personally can't find anything at all, It's just stupid that your expected to apply for vacancies that are not there, I check about 6 sites each day including job centre site and none of them have been updated for nearly 2 week.