Can't get a job

Approach places in person. Hand your CV in person and have a few lines that you are looking for employment. Ask for a manager. A CV that arrives in the post on spec in most places goes into the shedder.

frosty123 wrote: »

no,


but i'd like to buy some to cheer me up

The drugs don't work pal, but neither do you so fill your boots I reckon.

I wouldn't even be that sold on a cover letter. They're fairly 1980s, you're selling yourself to an employer who doesn't need an employee right now. If I have an open role, then the cover letter goes in the bin and I look at the CV. If I don't have any open roles, both go in the bin.

As said above though OP, unemployment is so low right now, that you should try take an honest look at your approach. Your CV might be crap. It might say more about you than you need it to, for example you don't need to put:

- Your age or date of birth
- Your religion
- Your nationality
- Your address (your location is sufficient, if at all)

It also needs to formatted nicely - clear and readable - with no spelling mistakes. If you know you're no good at this and know someone who IS good at this, ask them to look it over. I'll even do it if you want.

Take a look at your personal approach. If you are going around handing out CVs, you need to be clean. If your hair is a mess, you haven't shaven in 3 days and you're wearing a smelly Megadeth t-shirt and knee-high Docs, then forget about it. You don't have to be wearing a suit - a pair of jeans and a well-fitting hoodie is fine, but at least make it look like you showered and looked in a mirror when you got out of bed.

Don't just walk up and say, "I want to leave my CV in for jobs", hand it over to the receptionist and walk away. It's going into a bin. If you can, ask to speak to a member of management, and if they ask why, just be honest and say that you're enquiring as to whether they have any jobs. You may be told to leave your CV there, that's cool. Or that there are no jobs. Or someone might come down to you and have a chat. In any case, you'll get a better idea as to whether you've wasted your time.

Though online is really the main way now, especially for companies with head offices, like Aldi or Lidl. If they have an online application form, even better, because lots of people won't even go to the trouble of filling them out.

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SeaFields wrote: »

Approach places in person. Hand your CV in person and have a few lines that you are looking for employment. Ask for a manager. A CV that arrives in the post on spec in most places goes into the shedder.

To be fair, as someone who manages a team and hires new staff every so often, unsolicited CVs probably aren't gonna help the OP.

I'd normally give the spec I want to our recruitment/hr team and let them reach out to agencies, post on job sites, trawl LinkedIn etc. Even if the company doesn't have a hr department, they're just going to go to an agency or upload it to a job site.

Only direct CVs I would review are those referred by existing staff with good performance records themselves

frosty123 wrote: »

Honest to god...sending out cv's left right and centre, signed up with recruitment agencies, not being in anyway fussy even warehouse work would do and ......nothing, no replies nothing, even aldi & lidl don't wanna know.


Granted i'm long term unemployed (over 2 years) and in my late 30's..but i thought i'd get at least some sort of response esp this time of year, but ..no, zilch!



am i on the scrapeheap for life?

(i'm in the mid-west btw, near Limerick)

What about milking cows? I thought they had a training course and a job if you were suitable for welfare recipients?

I think you should start looking for a job you would want rather than just any job. Employers probably look at your CV and think you're too experienced for stocking shelves or what have you.

So what is all this re-training you've done OP?