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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