Placement

seanpaul101

Hi guys, I would love some opinions on my situation as I am a little confused as to the whole thing if I am honest.

I went back to college in 2014 after the breakup of my marriage. I went and enrolled and done a mature business cert firstly for two years as I was 35 then. I have since gone on and completed my bachelors degree and then my honours degree and am now on my masters in marketing.

I received my honours degree last year and applied for approximately 40 jobs and didn't get a reply from any of them. My cv has been done extensively by the careers section of the college and I actually researched cv templates myself and have since created my own version of my cv. Everyone who has seen my cv comments that it is very very good and the layout is very nice and all of the information I need is in it.

I am now on my masters and has part of it we have to do a placement and I have applied for almost all of the placements that were sent to us. I have had five interviews and got another call today to say that I didn't get the placement. Today it was stated that the person who owned the business decided that the masters programme wasn't suited to him but all the other times it has been other people on the masters that have gotten the placements over me.

I have gotten feedback from all of the interviews of which I had contact details for as the course coordinator dealt with some of them and it has stated consistently that I was overlooked due to a stronger candidate, it has always been good feedback but I don't get the job.

I am genuinely at a loss to explain how I am to get a placement, if I had known that it was going to be this difficult to get a placement or a job in marketing, I would never have done the degree. I only went back and did the masters as I couldn't get a job in the summer.

I am connecting with lots of people on LinkedIn and trying to source people who I know who might know people working in marketing but I am honestly thinking of just pulling out of masters and applying for other jobs but even if I do that I don't have experience. I sign up for events and different seminars which I essentially cant afford as I have three kids and only work part time to try and network and mingle with different people in the industry and It makes no sense, you cant get the job without the experience and you cant get experience without the job.

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Finish the masters.

Are you writing unique cover letters for each job application? Or a generic copy and paste? When I receive a lot of CVs for a job, and I need some way to filter them, one of the first things I do is just dump the applicants who used a generic copy and paste cover letter. Marketing jobs tend to get loads of applications.

Is it a paid job placement?

seanpaul101

In my opinion I would write cover letters for every job application. Our course co Ordinator has told us not to do this as he is the person who is applying for a lot of these positions.
Some of the positions I have been dealing with the people myself but again our co Ordinator doesn't want us to send cover letters. When I was applying last year for jobs I would have made cover letters wherever it was asked for one.
I can only finish the masters if I get placement as there are projects to do while on placement.
The placement is paid but can be unpaid also. I am trying to source people on LinkedIn to maybe get something and I have a few leads so waiting on them to get back to me but that all takes time.
On the cover letter I would have more than likely changed one or two things in it for different jobs but that was it.