150 applications for one position!

Mark_Sanders

Job competition is tougher than ever these days...
I've heard some statistics say there's about ten applicants interviewed for every open position. So the odds are already stacked against you.
If there will be an eventual interview, take it!
Just be yourself. I think of job interviews as a lot like dating; it takes a while to fund someone you would want for a boyfriend, right (lol). The interviewer is probably just as nervous/uncomfortable as you are!

In case you need, feel free to take a look to my blog The Career Hero, I have written an article about how to dazzle the interviewer. Hope this helps. Good luck!

Helvetica75

yes I will thanks!

andygb

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

Even recruiters are dimwits;


"Admin Assistant needed. Must have good spelling and grammer"


... from a well-known UK recruiter.

I received one from an agency contact, saying - "this is our latest vacancie":(

Years ago, I was interviewed by a young lady, who "aksed" me - "How long have you been a cashiererer"
When I replied that I was not a cashier but an accounts manager, she replied - "Well, we is not recruiting for an accounts manager, we is recruiting for a cashiererer".
I was offered, but declined the job - I wonder why?

andygb

The last post I applied for with a local council had nearly 200 applicants - for an admin assistant.
We are living in crazy times.

mattcanary

shortcrust wrote: »

What does unskilled immigration have to do with a trainee lab assistant role? Such roles aren't low skilled even at a trainee level.

PS A current vacancy at Sheffield Uni for a trainee technician is asking for three A levels.

It's neither a high-skilled nor low-skilled job. It sits somewhere in the middle.

mattcanary

27col wrote: »

Anyone who has the time to interview 300 people has too much time on his hands. I'm sure that he could be doing something more productive.
Quite apart from the fact that unsuitable candidates could easily be removed before interview by doing a paper sift. As they used to call it in the Civil Service.

And I'm sure he was lying - unless he was conducting group interviews or assessment days.

mattcanary

andygb wrote: »

The last post I applied for with a local council had nearly 200 applicants - for an admin assistant.
We are living in crazy times.

Blame it on the internet and the sanctioning regime at the DWP.

seasideme

Helvetica75 wrote: »

Why do you torture candidates? They apply for thousands of jobs to get an actual interview, is it fair to make them spend hours to fill in your form? Imagine they do this for hundreds of jobs. You are paid to filter CVs, it is your job. Why you make candidates rewrite their whole CV again in your form? If you are not satisfied with the CV of a candidate, just reject him, after all the CV is the mirror of a candidate.

Try sending in a CV for an NHS job, not going to happen. When applying for agencies/care homes, I've sent in CVs before then had to fill in an application form later on.

seasideme

Polarbeary wrote: »

Plenty of jobs in healthcare! My friend works at a large hospital in the south-west and they have 100 nursing vacancies...30 people applied for the 100 jobs. St Barts NHS Trust is short of 1500 nurses and apparently there is a 5000 shortage of nurses in London!

Same with Occupational Therapy...especially OTs working for London councils and London NHS Trusts. I was speaking to somebody who works for a large London Trust running their internal temporary staffing bank. They recruit constantly for medical secretaries as they don't have experienced meds secs apply.

Seem to be plenty of PA jobs in London too. I was on the recruitment panel when my team wanted a new PA. We had to re-advertise as hardly anybody applied! That was a 29K job for someone with a year or two of experience working in the City.

Our trust has just recruited 100s more from the Philippines who wont start till next year.

The NHS has a generic application form so you only need to change the supported statement each time.

mro

Polarbeary wrote: »

Without trying to be mean...some of the people applying had a poor ability to construct sentences too.

I have found that rather a lot of people do not know the difference between there and their, your and you're etc. If you cannot get that right on application form, I am not going to interview you.

Depends if those issues are really relevant or just you being pedantic on particular things and your individual selection method.

I was pointing out you saying there are apparently lots of jobs in all these areas. If there are unemployed, maybe employers should be more flexible.