Best strategy for getting a contract?

[Magpie252]

TBF, the Swiss can be quite slow, I had one drag on for nearly a year before it totally disappeared!

If it's a banking roll then don't lose faith yet, mine took over two months to sort out, keep badgering the agent

[stek]

If it's a banking roll then don't lose faith yet, mine took over two months to sort out, keep badgering the agent

Bit late for this one, had the first phone interview in a pub in Manchester so I must have been at the Coop, so must have been 2011.

Role was with IBM, where I am now!

[northernladuk]

Bit late for this one, had the first phone interview in a pub in Manchester so I must have been at the Coop, so must have been 2011.

Did they also ask if you had any crystal meth?

[gabox01]

Jobserve gives me 633 contract roles in the UK, in IT, listed today.

If they are listing over 600 jobs each day that you can do, and you are only applying for five a week, then I suspect you may need to be trying harder to find a role.

If I could do 600 from 633, you could call me God

I'm only competent in the JAVA field, so let's say that's about 15% of the daily 600.
Also, not every JAVA job matches my skills, only about 10% of all the JAVA jobs, because JAVA is a huge topic.

[gabox01]

I presume that's not actually on your CV?

It's actually there.

[stek]

If I could do 600 from 633, you could call me God

I'm only competent in the JAVA field, so let's say that's about 15% of the daily 600.
Also, not every JAVA job matches my skills, only about 10% of all the JAVA jobs, because JAVA is a huge topic.

...and heavily Bobbed....

[TheFaQQer]

If I could do 600 from 633, you could call me God

I'm only competent in the JAVA field, so let's say that's about 15% of the daily 600.
Also, not every JAVA job matches my skills, only about 10% of all the JAVA jobs, because JAVA is a huge topic.

60 a day. Five days a week. So three hundred vacancies a week being advertised on Jobserve.

And on average, you apply for between four and five of these.

You might need to up your game since you aren't getting any interviews.

[gabox01]

Btw, when you apply for a job, do you use the default cover letter template?
So far i have used the job site default. Do you think this could be an issue? They might think i'm too lazy to write a decent cover letter, and not even look at my CV.

[eek]

Btw, when you apply for a job, do you use the default cover letter template?
So far i have used the job site default. Do you think this could be an issue? They might think i'm too lazy to write a decent cover letter, and not even look at my CV.

Unless things have changed in the past year I don't think the letter makes any difference. I send my CV with stock letter and get a phone call within 30 minutes.

It may be that my CV is very good but I always get past the first stage...

[SueEllen]

Btw, when you apply for a job, do you use the default cover letter template?
So far i have used the job site default. Do you think this could be an issue? They might think i'm too lazy to write a decent cover letter, and not even look at my CV.

Let me tell you a little secret.....

Very few agents can read properly, and even the ones who can don't read more than they have to so the cover email isn't read.