Advice please

lamesausage

I'm repeating my final year of college externally, and have completed the first semester. I looked for a job for around 2 months before I had to start studying for my exams at christmas and got no luck at all. I went into town and other areas with CVs and also looked on jobs.ie. I really need a job so I am looking again. I just want advice and opinions on a number of things which im curious about.

Firstly is it me or is it really difficult to find minimum wage work in Dublin at the moment? Has anyone else had as much trouble as I have? I literally handed out hundreds of CVs with relative experience on them, as well as looking online loads and only got 4 interviews. None of which were successful. It just seems almost impossible because there is an insane amount of competition. My friends all say they get hundreds of CVs in the places they work and they just bin them all.

What is the best way of going about getting a job at the moment? Iv'e sort of givin up on walking around town handing out CVs to no avail. Should I just focus on online searching? How do you do it!

Thats all, cheers.

Just An Opinion

I wish I could give you something worth while but I'm in exactly the same position, I've been sending application after application for months (mostly online advertised positions) and in my qualified field I might add but not so much as an acknowledgement from 95% of the advertising firms. Or agencies as it nearly always seems to be these days (I absolutely hate recruiting agencies, shambolic setup IMHO).

I am literally applying for any job advertised that is remotely in my line of experience and nothing is coming of it. Extremely soul destroying as it is, we just have to battle on and something I'm sure will come up.

Best of luck with it.

lamesausage

Just An Opinion wrote: »

I wish I could give you something worth while but I'm in exactly the same position, I've been sending application after application for months (mostly online advertised positions) and in my qualified field I might add but not so much as an acknowledgement from 95% of the advertising firms. Or agencies as it nearly always seems to be these days (I absolutely hate recruiting agencies, shambolic setup IMHO).

I am literally applying for any job advertised that is remotely in my line of experience and nothing is coming of it. Extremely soul destroying as it is, we just have to battle on and something I'm sure will come up.

Best of luck with it.

So you would be applying for positions which require qualifications? I understand that it is very difficult for graduates in certain fields to get anything in this ****hole. But is it the same for lower wage jobs? I'm just looking for something to give me some money untill I graduate and possibly bail from here. I literally have zero money, live with parents and ain't entitled to dole... Bad times.

Procrastastudy

As soon as someone says hundreds or even dozens of CVs it makes me wonder, did you target your CV for that job? Did you write a specific covering letter?

When I as managing stores near the beginging of the down turn two thing were happening;

i) Retail was becoming target driven;
ii) the calibre of sales person was increasing - dramatically.

The only CVs I tended to keep were ones where I thought the person could sell. That meant their appearance as they walked in, the CV and the covering letter. The mereist whiff of "looking for min wage shop job" it was ta, ta.

There are some employers out there looking for staff for check-outs stock room etc. but they would have very specific requirements - generally working them half to death with very little argument. You tend to find the vast majority of people near the end of college fall between these two requirements. E.g. they can't sell and they're too smart to be exploited.

If you're in Dublin, have you tired Sky?