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dmliverpool

saintjammyswine wrote: »

Nowadays with the economy as it is, job hunting is purelty a numbers game unless it is totally specialised
1. check your CV is good enough
2. just keep churning out the applications, more than 4 a week definitely.

You have to be everywhere at once to get that good job unless you have skills and experience as well as good references.

I would say a good days worth of job seeking consists of the following:
1. Checking subscribed emails to trawl for jobs via jobsite, reed, nhs - they can email you jobs if signed up.
2. Send a good quality appliction form off via email or in the post
3. Send off at least 5-10 cv's that are tip top and decent jobs
4. Call and chase all jobs applied for as you know the closing dates and you have it scheduled to call them 12 days after the closing date.
5. Chase jobs applied for online via email
6. More in depth job seeking on specific websites.

If your not on these levels and being on top of it in a professional way you won't last in the jobs you are applying for in today's market as they will get someone else who will. Full Stop. Times have changed.

You do this until you get a break through. Those people that say they have done 300 applications in a month are joking, the quality would have been crap and they would have been filed in the bin.

Once your this active you will spot a job a mile away and after previous knock backs you will have learned exactly what to say and how to say it at interview and on an application form. In my experience jobs that require an application form to be filled in online or via a word document are the better jobs as the recruitment process is more likely to be fair. I have coached this and an employer can spot someone who is job ready a mile away.

Just about to watch the apprentice..:cool:

snowqueen555

I also think its a numbers game. When I was looking, I was sending out 70 a week, most of them were anything I could find on the job centre website, very few were "career" orientated. Even if I didn't want to do the job, its worth applying and seeing if you get an interview. I must've got 13 interviews in 5 months, I don't know if that is good or bad. I missed a couple, and pretty much failed every other one until I got two jobs at once, one in a retail shop and the second one is the one I am currently working at.

Both jobs didn't require any real skill, I think they just"liked" me at the interview, not really any critical analysis of my skills etc etc

DCFC79

emmaanddave wrote: »

4 jobs a week!! That is not enough in my opinion - that is not even 1 job a day. What type of work are you looking for? Will you consider a job that you can transfer your existing skills? Are you flexible in hours, location, realistic salary etc?

im in a position where ive no job but im not sure what other job i could do that i could use my skills so im currently looking for retail but any job i know i can do. My last job wasnt retail and not a job i had experience of and it turns out i wasnt good enough to be a boot licker or yes man so i was let go. Im a bit reluctant try a completely different job if i end up getting let go again.

claire16c

misty2730 wrote: »

thank u every one
i am atm looking for any thing but even cleaning jobs are asking for experance.
do i lie?
i said atleast 4 thats not how many every week i do are on line applications too
also when u drop in your cv to stores and dont get a reply should i keep droping them in?

Not being funny but who has looked at your cv apart from yourself?

I know this is a forum but your spelling etc isnt exactly amazing, I doubt most people would give your cv a second look if its written in the same way? Or are you only typing like this on here?

claire16c

dmliverpool wrote: »

You have to be everywhere at once to get that good job unless you have skills and experience as well as good references.

I would say a good days worth of job seeking consists of the following:
1. Checking subscribed emails to trawl for jobs via jobsite, reed, nhs - they can email you jobs if signed up.
2. Send a good quality appliction form off via email or in the post
3. Send off at least 5-10 cv's that are tip top and decent jobs
4. Call and chase all jobs applied for as you know the closing dates and you have it scheduled to call them 12 days after the closing date.
5. Chase jobs applied for online via email
6. More in depth job seeking on specific websites.

If your not on these levels and being on top of it in a professional way you won't last in the jobs you are applying for in today's market as they will get someone else who will. Full Stop. Times have changed.

You do this until you get a break through. Those people that say they have done 300 applications in a month are joking, the quality would have been crap and they would have been filed in the bin.

Once your this active you will spot a job a mile away and after previous knock backs you will have learned exactly what to say and how to say it at interview and on an application form. In my experience jobs that require an application form to be filled in online or via a word document are the better jobs as the recruitment process is more likely to be fair. I have coached this and an employer can spot someone who is job ready a mile away.

Just about to watch the apprentice..:cool:

I agree with you about the 300 applications thing, ( I dont see how anyone can have experience/qualifications to be able to do 300 different jobs) but then you also suggest to send off 5-10 cvs a day plus an application? Thats still a couple of hundred!

Good episode of the apprentice!

misty2730

claire16c wrote: »

I agree with you about the 300 applications thing, ( I dont see how anyone can have experience/qualifications to be able to do 300 different jobs) but then you also suggest to send off 5-10 cvs a day plus an application? Thats still a couple of hundred!

Good episode of the apprentice!

5-10 cvs is hard if the jobs want you to be experanced!
do u lie to just try to get an interview?
its scary atm when loads of buisnesses are going bust.

Caroline_a

misty2730 wrote: »

5-10 cvs is hard if the jobs want you to be experanced!
do u lie to just try to get an interview?
its scary atm when loads of buisnesses are going bust.

If you lie you will be found out. Your spelling isn't great as others have pointed out, and I would get someone with good spelling and English to check out what you are sending out. 4 jobs a week certainly isnt enough, I seem to remember with the old JobClub you had to do 10 applications a day.

dmliverpool

claire16c wrote: »

I agree with you about the 300 applications thing, ( I dont see how anyone can have experience/qualifications to be able to do 300 different jobs) but then you also suggest to send off 5-10 cvs a day plus an application? Thats still a couple of hundred!

Good episode of the apprentice!

I guess it was more to get the point across that job seeking is a job and if you are not prepared to give it 110% then an employer isn't going to want you as we all have to assume the competition is Mr or Mrs perfect?:D

misty2730

Caroline_a wrote: »

If you lie you will be found out. Your spelling isn't great as others have pointed out, and I would get someone with good spelling and English to check out what you are sending out. 4 jobs a week certainly isnt enough, I seem to remember with the old JobClub you had to do 10 applications a day.

dont worry always use spell check lol
and my cv was done professionally

claire16c

No I would never lie to get an interview, because i would never want to be in the position of being interviewed for something I was totally incapable of.

maybe you could post your cv on here and we could try to help you/make suggestions?