and this is why I hate having to apply by email!!

baybeebug

I spent ages doing an application form in time for the cut off date.

I have just got an email to to say it's been sent, 6 days after the cut off date!!!!

Wont be getting that job then!

What I don't understand is that i've sent emails since then that have gone through and it wasn't sitting in my outbox!! Oh well!

smileylondongal

I don't understand, are you blaming yourself, the employer or your outbox for not getting the application in on time?

LadyMissA

thats just how it goes - it may have got stuck in the system at either end

joyce63

While this might have been a case of the email being lost in cyberspace, it could be something else. Sometimes if an organisation has received a high number of applications, they bring the closing date forward. I got caught out by this recently, putting in an application before the originally stated closing date, but I noticed it was taken off the website I had seen it on - and I never heard back from them. I now try to make a point of putting in my application as quickly as possible after I see the ad - when I have done this, I've had a far better hit rate in getting selected for interview.

baybeebug

joyce63 wrote: »

While this might have been a case of the email being lost in cyberspace, it could be something else. Sometimes if an organisation has received a high number of applications, they bring the closing date forward. I got caught out by this recently, putting in an application before the originally stated closing date, but I noticed it was taken off the website I had seen it on - and I never heard back from them. I now try to make a point of putting in my application as quickly as possible after I see the ad - when I have done this, I've had a far better hit rate in getting selected for interview.

Normally I do do it straight away but I only saw this one hours before the end of the cut off date.

Oh well it's probably fate something better must be on it's way to me.

baybeebug

smileylondongal wrote: »

I don't understand, are you blaming yourself, the employer or your outbox for not getting the application in on time?

I blame technology!

chuckley

theres jobs still online that have already bin filled. these companies cant even be bothered to take it down or edit to say it's been filled. they make me sick!

smileylondongal

Perhaps worth keeping a reminder in your phone with deadlines like these to double check? Just a thought as I know when I used to apply to lots of roles at once, I'd be petrified of missing one and it worked for me!

dmliverpool

chuckley wrote: »

theres jobs still online that have already bin filled. these companies cant even be bothered to take it down or edit to say it's been filled. they make me sick!

Agreed I often get the application pack and actually call the employer for a talk about the job. usually its agencies that play silly games with closing dates and cuestiring speculative jobs they have no ties to so they can approach the employer with 100 CV's. Its terrible.

Generally I have never got any where applying for a job through an agency.

ali-t

baybeebug wrote: »

What I don't understand is that i've sent emails since then that have gone through and it wasn't sitting in my outbox!! Oh well!

You should still have a record of it in your sent mail. It will be dated (with the date you sent it not the date they received it) so if you forward it to the employer with a note apologising but that technology appears to have got in the way you can ask if they can alert you to any future vacancies. This will then stop them thinking you are dafty that can't read

baybeebug

ali-t wrote: »

You should still have a record of it in your sent mail. It will be dated (with the date you sent it not the date they received it) so if you forward it to the employer with a note apologising but that technology appears to have got in the way you can ask if they can alert you to any future vacancies. This will then stop them thinking you are dafty that can't read

see that's the problem the message in the sent box is saying that I only sent it yesterday when I actually sent it last week!! Having said that there is also an email to housing benefit that says I sent on the 9th when I actually sent it at the end of june so I'm really confused!!