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Invisible wrote:
>>> You go to some jobs website. You click the button that says "apply",
>>> and it tells you "your CV has been forwarded".
>>
>> Fail! You should check and double check the job description and
>> update your CV to match before applying to each job.
>
> 1. Most of these websites don't allow you to do that. (You can only have
> one version of your CV - or sometimes 3 or something.)
>
Poo! You don’t use the CV registered on the website. You upload a fresh one.
> 2. I don't have time to write thousands of custom versions of my CV.
>
You do it as the jobs appear and as for time. How long to you spend here?
> 3. Usually the jobs I'm applying for are so tangentally related to what
> I'm actually after that it's dubious that I *could* make my CV look any
> more relevant than it already does (i.e., not very).
>
Keep trying and one might work.
>> Simply sending an exact copy of the same CV to everywhere that sounds
>> interesting is a recipe for failure.
>
> I don't have a lot of choice here. It took *months* to get my CV to the
> stage it's at now. God only knows how long it would take to customise it
> for every single job I've ever applied for. And it would be just my luck
> that I'd end up missing out important information or adding spelling
> mistakes. By having only one CV, I can work on making it a very strong
> CV. By having millions, I dilute that effort.
>
Why not listen to people who apply for and get jobs? Hmm. :)
>>> You never hear back. What else can you do?
>>
Phone the agency even if it is on the pretext of ensuring that they got
your CV.
That’s what I do.
>
> We're talking about the investment branch of Lloyds TSB, in the
> financial district of London. I doubt they're short of applicants.
>
In the hotel where I am staying in Chester there are a couple of long
term residents who are training new starts for Lloyds TSB. So there must
be a demand for the training.
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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