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donnajunkie

AP007 wrote: »

You can not write I looked in the paper and for all jobs applied you need FULL details

Site you saw the job advertised
The job title
The job reference number
How and who you applied to and with an email address of the company

my prevous adviser gave me grief one time about not providing enough details of each job. they expect you to write the full name and address as well as the person you contacted in a tiny box that just about has enough room for the company name. they also specifically gave me grief about not supplying job reference numbers. i said alot of them dont have job reference numbers. they just assume every job you apply for is from the jobcentre website. you dont always have a contact name either.

AP007

donnajunkie wrote: »

my prevous adviser gave me grief one time about not providing enough details of each job. they expect you to write the full name and address as well as the person you contacted in a tiny box that just about has enough room for the company name. they also specifically gave me grief about not supplying job reference numbers. i said alot of them dont have job reference numbers. they just assume every job you apply for is from the jobcentre website. you dont always have a contact name either.

!!!!!!? Its NOT just the JC website that have job references nearly EVERY site online have them

donnajunkie

AP007 wrote: »

!!!!!!? Its NOT just the JC website that have job references nearly EVERY site online have them

i have applied for plenty that dont have a number.

AP007

donnajunkie wrote: »

i have applied for plenty that dont have a number.

I have applied for none

donnajunkie

AP007 wrote: »

I have applied for none

alot do, some dont. that is the point i made to them. they dont always have one. also like i said theres barely enough room to write the name of the employer nevermind anything else.

Affynity

A lot of websites don't use reference numbers these days.
They're a sort of redundant feature in a digital era. You don't need to tell the employer what the actual job you want is because your application is accessed directly from the advert.

looby75

its about 50/50 from my application if they have a number or not. If I'm applying directly on a companies own website then they don't usually have a reference number, but if it's from a agency/third party site they do.

AP007

Affynity wrote: »

A lot of websites don't use reference numbers these days.
They're a sort of redundant feature in a digital era. You don't need to tell the employer what the actual job you want is because your application is accessed directly from the advert.

what websites don't?

It has nothing to do with telling the employer the job its the ref number so they can trace it back to that site

like this one

http://www.cityjobs.com/job/purchase-ledger-clerk-945811758?src=search ref number 193655-EC1234

or

http://www.cv-library.co.uk/cgi-bin/view-job.cgi?jobref=101385411 ref number APE-55852

IF anyone wanted to check I applied to these people they would say Miss so and so applied for ref number xxxxxx, did she?

Not did she apply for an Accounts Assistant role as they will say, what one?

AP007

Even Gumtree have reference numbers

looby75

as I've said a lot companies who have a recruitment section on their own websites don't have reference numbers.

I've just twigged who you are (not in a bad way )