I never thought it would be so difficult in finding a job!

Dunroamin

How are you addressing the fact that you resigned from your last job after only a couple of months - I'd think that would be a major hurdle to overcome.

marginalone

That is a difficult one:

To cut a long story short, I left because the job was completely missold to me. Worst move I made in my career to date was to take that job.

How do I flip that into a positive?

PasturesNew

I always found that direct sales organisations are always looking for sales people, on the phones or door knocking. I used to do loads of it when I was younger. They'd take you on just because you phoned and told them you were good.

How much cold calling do you do to find yourself a job? How often do you door knock employers?

Dunroamin

marginalone wrote: »

That is a difficult one:

To cut a long story short, I left because the job was completely missold to me. Worst move I made in my career to date was to take that job.

How do I flip that into a positive?

Perhaps your second worse mistake was to leave it without another job to go to.

jasonmantle

Yeah, the competition is very intense nowadays. I used to be in the same situation a few months ago.
After getting desperate, I decided to invest in a good resume by hiring a professional resume service. I chose the one with money back guarantee, so at least I'd have my money back if the resume didn't get me a decent job.
The resume generated more interviews, so I finally found a decent job to pay the rent and everything.

If any of you are interested, the company I used was styleresumes.com. I think you can also download a short interview book for free there.

Good luck!

kazwookie

Howe about contacting local agencies for the short term, you never know what that may lead to in the long term

Good luck

November5th

marginalone wrote: »

That is a difficult one:

To cut a long story short, I left because the job was completely missold to me. Worst move I made in my career to date was to take that job.

How do I flip that into a positive?

Consider taking it off the CV? I had a month long job that I had to leave as it was a disaster in all ways, keep it off the CV and that is just an extra month that I say that I took off because i could, and fixed up the house.

shmeeko69

Even although I work from home I fully understand the difficulties in finding work and especially after 2008.

I've always said the three main ingredients to any job are -

Applying for relevant jobs
Dressing appropriately for the interview
Interview skills and techniques

The fact that you're applying for sales and marketing jobs and getting interviews would tell me that, the only missing ingredient to getting a suitable job is, in honing your interview techniques.

What ever approach you're currently using towards interviews doesn't seem to be working, so you'll have to change that. Practise with members of your family and/or friends and ask them for their honest advice and what changes you could make.

All the best with your future interviews.

beckysbobbles1

I really feel like showing this thread to my OH.

He decided to quit his job as a recruitment consultant a few weeks ago. He only started there in February but it clearly wasn't for him. It was more a matter of walking ebfore being sacked.

Anyway now he is searching for a new job and luckily he ahs had a few interviews. However he seems like he can be so picky about what he wants to do.

He is currently emailing me whilst he is at an assessment day stating how he feels this whole process is 'beneath him'.

I am so frustrated as he has such a disjointed view of the World.

Sorry for the rant. I think as much as a painas recruitment consultants are, use them! Take them for what they are worth. If you find a good one, then they will find you a job.

If you struggle a bit in interviews maybe try to prepare a bit more. Learn more about the company, check out the Linkedin Profiles of the people whom are intervieing you. Use every tool possible.

And I know it's easier said than done but try and keep the faith. You need to keep positive to attract a positive outcome.

marginalone

November5th wrote: »

Consider taking it off the CV? I had a month long job that I had to leave as it was a disaster in all ways, keep it off the CV and that is just an extra month that I say that I took off because i could, and fixed up the house.

I couldn't do that because I believe that would be the wrong thing to do as the role has been on my LinkedIn profile and I attended networking groups as a rep of the the firm.

The firm folded 2 months after I resigned. So it was a no win situation. The owners should never have hired us