Not getting many responses to applications, no interviews, any tips?

[TheFaQQer]

I've always taken fast track into management to mean:-

Someone up high likes him but he's blooming dangerous around systems so promote him out of harm asap....

The Peter Principle springs to mind.

[d000hg]

The Peter Principle springs to mind.

Entirely different. Fast-track is just like joining a company through a graduate program, or the army with the intention of becoming an officer.

[TheFaQQer]

Entirely different. Fast-track is just like joining a company through a graduate program, or the army with the intention of becoming an officer.

The Peter Principle puts no limit on time - it merely shows that people get promoted to the level of their incompetence. Which is pretty much what eek said.

Being fast tracked just means that you get promoted to the level of your incompetence quicker.

[DieScum]

I was in a similar position after a 12 month break. Ending up spending 4 months searching so the gap was 16 months.

The irony is I worked harder and learned more skills during my break than on a lot of gigs I have had.

Was impossible to get past the agents though and I can understand why.

I ended up taking a crappy six month fixed term contract. Crappy role but in an area I wanted to work in.

Kept up the same tempo of job searching while on that gig and got a much better one after six months.

It's hard but just keep persevering. Use the free time well and eventually something will fall. Good luck!

[EternalOptimist]

anyone who thinks that putting 'look at me, arn't I a great caring human being' stuff on their CV is a good idea, needs taking out , bending over and introduced to a large greasy bargepole.

Anyone who opens a post with 'So ' needs to do a course on written English.

You are fighting for work, this aint no game. Cover up the gap, forget bigging your world experience, no one cares. Make it look like you were doing last Friday what they want you to start doing on Monday.

and that's just for starters...


good luck by the way

[SteelyDan]

Anyone who opens a post with 'So' needs to do a course on written English.

'So' seems to be en-vogue these days, along with 'I get that...'.
Where I am at the mo, almost everyone starts a sentence with this 'so' word; I think they've all received some training on current business 'speak' which they feel compelled to deploy ad infinitum...but it really is so annoying I must say, and, like you suggest, poor English.
Fortunately though, 'blue-sky-thinking' seems to have disappeared.

[jmo21]

'So' seems to be en-vogue these days, along with 'I get that...'.
Where I am at the mo, almost everyone starts a sentence with this 'so' word; I think they've all received some training on current business 'speak' which they feel compelled to deploy ad infinitum...but it really is so annoying I must say, and, like you suggest, poor English.
Fortunately though, 'blue-sky-thinking' seems to have disappeared.

'So' I think it's an American thing.

It annoys me too, but it's just language evolving, and changing as it always has.

[SteelyDan]

'So' I think it's an American thing.

Isn't it always?

[GlenW]

'So' I think it's an American thing.

It annoys me too, but it's just language evolving, and changing as it always has.

It is just plain wrong! 'So' can be considered the same as 'Therefore', when these numpties start a sentence with 'So' could it be replaced with 'Therefore' and make sense? Of course not.

[vetran]

can you speak to that?