On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:05:11 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

>> The outplacement service I was given access to with the layoff said
>> that one should be doing 4-5 interviews a week IIRC, and sending 20-30
>> CVs a week.  It's all about numbers.
> 
> I'm not sure how you could even achieve that. I'm not sure I could find
> that many [remotely relevant] jobs to apply for. But more to the point,
> you control how many applications you send out; you do /not/ have any
> control at all over how many interviews you get invited to. :-P

You do have control over how many interviews you get invited to - if you 
get 'x' interviews for 'y' CVs sent out, you have some degree of control 
of how many interviews you may get.

Conversely, if you send out no CVs, you get no interviews.  That's also 
in your control.

Jim

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