Walking in with a CV

Raz

I've done this quite often and I've always believed it's a good idea to go for the manager when handing in a CV.
The problem is everytime I ask to see the manager the flunkie at the counter says, "What's it about?". Me being the honest person that I am reply that it's to hand in a CV. At this point I generally get a reply such as, "Oh, I can take that for you.", or, "We're not hiring at the moment.", or, "The managers too busy right now".
It always seems to end up with me not getting anywhere near the manager and walking out wondering if they'll ever see my C.V. at all.
Does anyone else have any experience with this kinda thing?

Dub13

Try to find out the Managers name and post it to him....then he will see it.

Raz

Personally I'm not inclined to do that because I'd prefer to meet them face to face so as they can gauge my personality/character, which I find is a huge factor in getting a job. I find almost unanimously (sp?) that I do better with a face to face scenario.

leeroybrown

You could even generically address it to "The HR Manager", "HR Department", "The Manager" or something similar depending on what you thing will get it to them. A personally addressed letter is often better for smaller companies if you can get the managers name.

Be careful though I've seen mis-addresed applications before and they don't look good. A friend was once sending two applications to two competing companies with a specific covering letter for each. You cannot imagine the look on his face when he was informed that company A got letter B and vice versa.

Woden

yeap we do it in my job, you can hand the c.v into the staff, or you can hand it to one of the floor managers, tbh it won't make much difference not in our job anyway, at the moment the staff are asked to generally appraise the person handing it in seems like a nice girl/guy etc.

but whether you hand the c.v to some one a service desk for example or hand it to a manager it makes no difference it ends up on the same desk, in the same pile, until the time when positions are available and then they start going through them or it waits at the service desk until they get a few and then they go upstairs together

it amuses me though how people take comfort from handing the c.v to a manager instead of a staff member. i suppose its generally good policy to look for a manager but don't worry about it at the end of the day i'd be more worried about the actual
c.v some of the ones i see come in are fairly bad, when there is a pile of 50 c.v's and applications to go through the manager will have forgotten you're face and it will be the c.v that makes the impression so make sure this is up to scratch

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