The Bench - Blog! How do some of you cope and bag an Interview?!

[vandiss]

How are u doing it??? When u apply for a role via jobserve and you call the agent. The agent says to me cv have been submitted usually! how does one get a role without being advertised... Constant calling of an agent??? I am finding it flippin ridiculously hard to get to a client. Luckily freelancing is bringing a revenue in but I want back in... And work with peeps. So much circuit training one can do

I got quite a lot of calls from agents who had found my CV on Monster. If you haven't got it up there already, do it. Immediately.

[cojak]

I got quite a lot of calls from agents who had found my CV on Monster. If you haven't got it up there already, do it. Immediately.

WHS

[MrHelpful]

I have updated Monster but it has resulted in ZERO callbacks... is the market flooded with PMs. Did have a positive day yesterday where atleast my CV went fwd to 2 customers just waiting to hear back from them now. I've update cwjobs profile today so hopefully that yields some results.

[The Wikir Man]

I have updated Monster but it has resulted in ZERO callbacks... is the market flooded with PMs. Did have a positive day yesterday where atleast my CV went fwd to 2 customers just waiting to hear back from them now. I've update cwjobs profile today so hopefully that yields some results.

Update every profile, every day.

In RC's thread about job hunting, there are some tips that he picked up from the job centre. Many agents will automatically filter on CVs updated in the last few days - make sure yours is one of them.

You could even try stuffing the margins of your CV word document with key words in white so they don't show up when printed, but so show up when automatically filtered. I have not done this, so have no idea whether it helps / hinders the search.

[MrHelpful]

Thanks for the tips... updated it with a few more lines. I will def do this daily now

[BolshieBastard]

Oh ****erty **** **** ******* hell.

The second interview I had last week, the client has now withdrawn the ******* role because they now consider they want an out and out BA who has an 'overview' of testing (whatever the **** that means, apart from the obvious )

******* livid. Why dont these twunts know what role they want to fill?

****!

Good job I've still got two interviews awaiting a decison otherwise Id be ******* suicidal.

****, I hate contracting sometimes.

[norrahe]

I've just had my offline rant so don't need the expletives, but if I get another pimp questioning why I've been off the last few months I will tear them a new

They way these idiots go on its as if you've had the last year off. fight:

AAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrHelpful]

Stick in there - well I am... perservering.... waiting for that call still - though I had 3 calls in the last 2 working days. Just gizza an interview.

Can I ask whats the best course someone has gone the JSA to pay... luckily I have a healthyish warchest.

[The Wikir Man]

Stick in there - well I am... perservering.... waiting for that call still - though I had 3 calls in the last 2 working days. Just gizza an interview.

Can I ask whats the best course someone has gone the JSA to pay... luckily I have a healthyish warchest.

If you leave it too long before claiming JSA, then you won't have paid enough NI to be able to claim it any more.

[MrHelpful]

Well I'll just re-start my salary then when thats the case