I'm all out of ideas for getting a new job.

Denno666

All of the above are interesting ideas. I'm not sure what career you're looking for but you could try maybe getting your 'foot in the door' of a company/business that has the area your interested in, even if the job is completely different to this. My brother did a degree in accountancy (or something to do with finance) but could find any related work, so he went to work for in a call centre for a mobile phone company. They noticed that he was a good worker and had other skills, so they put him in the finance department. I suppose this is a sort of indirect route, and it depends on whether you're circumstances would allow you to take a possible pay cut for a while.

National_Careers_Service

Hello Falko 89,

I’m sorry to hear you’re feeling so stuck in your current role. It also sounds as though you feel a bit lost about why you haven’t been able to move on yet – which I’m sure is very frustrating and tiring.

An important aspect of searching for work is about maintaining energy, drive, determination and motivation. This can be pretty hard at times, particularly when we don’t know why things aren’t happening for us. It sounds like you’re putting plenty of energy and effort into finding vacancies that you’d like to apply for and there are plenty of other suggestions on here to open up other possible avenues.

Looking at your post, I’m wondering if your problem lies with not finding enough vacancies to apply for, or if it might be beneficial for you to see if there are other aspects of your job search that you could develop too. Maybe there’s room for you to further develop your applications and CVs, for example.

You might find it useful to think about each of the roles that you’ve applied for recently. Do you feel relatively confident about your understanding of the skills, experience and knowledge that each of those employers is looking for, for that specific role? If not, is that something that you could work on a bit more? Taking that a bit further again, to what extent have you been tailoring your applications each time? Do you feel that you’ve made it easy for each of the employers to understand exactly how you meet their specific criteria and why you’re motivated to work within that specific role? I suppose, in short, are you tailoring your CV to meet the specific requirements of the roles you are applying for?

I know there are a lot of questions here, but your application and CV are an opportunity to impress potential employers, so you really do need to tailor each one to the job/company you are applying to.

I hope you find this useful and the very best of luck with your job search.

missy12345

Just keep going, something is bound to come up, if you don't get something soon it's not meant to be x

Salz

There is no point just sending your CV off to the employment agencies - pop in to see them once a week in person. This means they are more likely to remember your name if a job comes up. I suspect they all have so many people on their books that this is a good way to stand out from the others, and shows you are serious about finding employment.

Fire_Fox

Do you have great tailored covering letters that you are sending out with your CV?

notanewuser

It's a common issue - falko wants a change of career, but his CV focuses on his existing career. I'm working on highlighting the transferrable skills to make it easier for recruiters to see how he would fit within their organisations.