Support Each Other In Looking For Work?

November5th

This week ended up being just far too much.
I found an email inviting me to interview on Wednesday that I had missed! He confirmed a time, but obviously I did not confirm back. However, he did expect to see me 'see you at 4pm'.

I have asked to reschedule, do you think he will? He didn't fully confirm with me so it won't be like just not turning up?

I did my online grammar test too, went as well as it could, I am just glad to have it out of the way. Monday I will try to sort out any messes I am thinking I made! (recruiter).

Hope my poor wee head gets a break now, it's been painful!

Slinky

Oh dear, can you blame technology and say for some unknown reason it went to your Spam box so you didn't see it?

November5th

Slinky wrote: »

Oh dear, can you blame technology and say for some unknown reason it went to your Spam box so you didn't see it?

He would have smelled a rat I think as we had been corresponding and discussing times. I think because he thought he had confirmed with me, and messed up a bit by not confirming properly he may give me leeway, he was partly at fault.

Seems like a lovely fellow, so if he is cool and reschedules I will want the job even more I just said that I was very busy and his email got grouped up and marked as read, with my sincere apologies!

I feel like daring to have a bit of hope again this weekend :j

ferien_uk2011

Went for a job interview on Thursday for a call centre job arranged through a recruitment agency. They said they'd let me know by end of yesterday. Having heard nothing by early evening, I'd given up and had left the phone in the other room. My Mom brought it in just after 8 saying it had rung. I had a missed call from the agency so rang it back. I was forwarded to their central call centre, who told me that after they've diverted their phones there's no way of getting back in touch with the branch and he was surprised there was someone there that late anyway.

I was under the impression they wanted to start training people on Monday (although having said that, they may have just said 'next week'), so I'm thinking it must've been bad news otherwise she would've tried harder to get in touch with me yesterday. Still I have that glimmer of hope that she'll call with good news!


On a more positive note though, I got my results today for the DWP selection test I sat in April - full marks! I had already passed it a few years ago so didn't need to sit it again, but didn't realise this til I got there. But at least I bettered myself! Makes me feel better about the atrocity of my Spanish exam I did on Thurs - didn't see that there was a question on the back page til 2 minutes to go so had to guess it all (multiple choice at least). Figured out if I got all the other questions right, I need to get at least one of the back page ones right to get the highest grade, so it's still salvageable!

Slinky

I'm sure if I was a recruiter I'd have better things to do on a Friday night than phone an unsuccessful candidate with bad news..............

Fingers crossed for you.

top_drawer_2

I got a letter this morning and as expected I was unsuccessful in my interview for the Advice Worker position ;((

I prepared so hard for it and the interview questions were dreadful, almost inpossible for anyone to do well really as they were so straightforward.

Feeling quite down in the dumps today - I'm not sure how much more I can stand of this.

Jen

morizot

top_drawer wrote: »

I got a letter this morning and as expected I was unsuccessful in my interview for the Advice Worker position ;((

I prepared so hard for it and the interview questions were dreadful, almost inpossible for anyone to do well really as they were so straightforward.

Feeling quite down in the dumps today - I'm not sure how much more I can stand of this.

Jen

Very sorry to hear this. Will you be able to get feedback?

Most of us get days like this, you are not alone

persa

lexilex wrote: »

I live at home (which I never dreamed I would still be doing aged 22) and my parents are really on my back at the moment. I am pretty sure they think I sit watching daytime TV and playing on facebook all day when they are at work. They have told me I need to set my sights lower, which would be fine if I had only been applying for great jobs on huge salaries, but the truth is far from that. I've just written out a list of the jobs I've applied for recently to show them, 4 and a half pages of A4 crammed full of applications. It just makes me angry that people think I am one of those doleys who have no intention of ever working, when I am trying so damn hard to find a job, and hate this existance every single day.

Sorry to hear how your parents are making you feel - I went through similar with OH at one point. I don't think other people realise how awful we feel and how they make it even harder for us to cope when they force the weight of their expectations on us.

I may have more free time than I've ever had in my life, but I find I'm doing the least I ever have done. I apply for jobs, I speak to agencies... but I stay hiding in my house with the heating turned off as I feel too poor to go out. I do see friends and family, but far less often that I used to. I keep contact to a minimum as I hate not paying my way and therefore can't really afford to go out as often as I would like.

When I was in employment, I remember having a list of things I wanted to do, but which I never had the time for. Now I have the time, I feel so apathetic towards doing them. Hobbies seem to be a frivolous use of money (I might not be living on the breadline yet, but with no earnings coming in and no expectation of when that might happen, I'm determined to preserve as much of my savings as possible) and I feel so tired from doing nothing at all.

I have a very strong CV, comprising of excellent grades, experience working at some fantastic companies, loads of voluntary work, IT skills, language skills... But I've been out of work since February and only attended one interview so far. I really do think I would be an asset to any company, but no one seems to believe that, because no one has offered me a job.

I will admit, I didn't think it would be this hard. If I hadn't lost my job and someone told me that they had a CV like mine and had only bagged one interview so far, I would be wondering what on earth was wrong with them and whether they were genuinely applying for jobs or just lounging about at home. Having never lived through a recession before, I just didn't realise how long it would last and what the effect would really be on employment. You hear things in the press, but you always think it can't be that bad where you are. Nothing will ever happen to you or your own.

Being in this position has been a very humbling experience and I hope made me a better person, because I sure as hell won't be so quick to judge ever again. I think learning more tolerance and understanding, together with trying out lots of different value products and discovering they're ok to use, are probably the positives I can take away from this chapter in my life.

I would just like to move onto the next chapter soon...

Second interview on Monday, am keeping my fingers crossed this is it. After all, you don't need to attend lots of interviews... you just need one good one.

saxonrosecliff

persa wrote: »

Sorry to hear how your parents are making you feel - I went through similar with OH at one point. I don't think other people realise how awful we feel and how they make it even harder for us to cope when they force the weight of their expectations on us.

I may have more free time than I've ever had in my life, but I find I'm doing the least I ever have done. I apply for jobs, I speak to agencies... but I stay hiding in my house with the heating turned off as I feel too poor to go out. I do see friends and family, but far less often that I used to. I keep contact to a minimum as I hate not paying my way and therefore can't really afford to go out as often as I would like.

When I was in employment, I remember having a list of things I wanted to do, but which I never had the time for. Now I have the time, I feel so apathetic towards doing them. Hobbies seem to be a frivolous use of money (I might not be living on the breadline yet, but with no earnings coming in and no expectation of when that might happen, I'm determined to preserve as much of my savings as possible) and I feel so tired from doing nothing at all.

I have a very strong CV, comprising of excellent grades, experience working at some fantastic companies, loads of voluntary work, IT skills, language skills... But I've been out of work since February and only attended one interview so far. I really do think I would be an asset to any company, but no one seems to believe that, because no one has offered me a job.

I will admit, I didn't think it would be this hard. If I hadn't lost my job and someone told me that they had a CV like mine and had only bagged one interview so far, I would be wondering what on earth was wrong with them and whether they were genuinely applying for jobs or just lounging about at home. Having never lived through a recession before, I just didn't realise how long it would last and what the effect would really be on employment. You hear things in the press, but you always think it can't be that bad where you are. Nothing will ever happen to you or your own.

Being in this position has been a very humbling experience and I hope made me a better person, because I sure as hell won't be so quick to judge ever again. I think learning more tolerance and understanding, together with trying out lots of different value products and discovering they're ok to use, are probably the positives I can take away from this chapter in my life.

I would just like to move onto the next chapter soon...

Second interview on Monday, am keeping my fingers crossed this is it. After all, you don't need to attend lots of interviews... you just need one good one.

You've described me exactly. I hardly ever go out now because I can't afford to and I also hate other people feeling that they have to pay for me.

When I knew I was going to be unemployed I had all good intentions of making new curtains for my house having never had the time before but now I'm reluctant to spend money on curtain material!

To cap it all my mum wants me to go and look at kitchens with her at Ikea tomorrow. How on earth can I go to Ikea and not spend any money (I'm one of those people who goes to Ikea, picks up a "few bits"and ends up paying over £100 at the till!!;)). Normally I'd jump at the chance to go but I really don't want to. It'll be like being 5 years old again - trailing round the shop following my mum!

Good luck tomorrow - fingers crossed.

November5th

Good luck Persa, great post btw.

For me, it's the way everything has changed. Sorting out the CV was one thing (a lot of hard work at home) but interviews? I have never known anything like it. I am confident, eloquent and quick to adapt, always great at business meetings, but I have really struggled with them.
I feel like I am Goldilock's porridge, too hot, too cold, not yet just right.

I also feel people want me to fit right in with the team right at interview, giving no respect to the fact of why on earth wouldn't I fit straight into the team in my first week? What gain is there in taking a job and not fitting in?

The stress of trying to be perfect when none of us are...