What type of jobs are people applying for whereby they can do 200 with no result? I’ve worked plenty of factory/warehouse type jobs and frankly they gave me the job simply because I turned up for the interview. These jobs are not fussy, unless there’s something seriously wrong with you, you’re in.
I’m guessing that a lot of these 200+ application people are applying for jobs well out of their league.
> Computer science graduate Jordan Smith is one of the older job-seekers in the room at 28.
> Asked how many roles he has applied for, he admits: “I’ve lost count.
> “It’s quite difficult and quite stressful.”
> After numerous job rejections, Jordan has turned his thoughts to an apprenticeship.
I wonder if these are all software related roles or if it’s unskilled work he has applied to? As he mentioned apprenticeship, it makes me think it is the latter, as apprenticeships don’t really exist in the software industry. You’re expected to be qualified (with some flexibility) from the day you apply, but you can’t be trained from 0.
Long gone are the days of walking the streets – cv in hand – walking into each and every shop and asking for a job.
Maybe people should try it.
*edit. Not sure why I’ve been downvoted. The “maybe people should try it” wasn’t a dig, just a comment.
The reasoning it isn’t done has been given and the GDPR aspect makes sense. I’m just saying how I got my first job a long time ago.
Applying for ‘dream’ positions or refusing, point blank, to work minimum wage because either it’s beneath them and their Bachelors (dime a dozen, by the way) or they just can’t do the basics when it comes to grafting and/or turning up for shift on time.
Presumably these sorts have to pay the bills like everyone else…fuck knows.
I will tell you this. The last 2 times I got a new job took me 400 applications. Took me 4 hours a day, 4 days a week for 4 months.
I’m quite fresh off of redundancy due to company insolvency (end of Oct) – middle management experience, but was open to dropping back down a step due to necessity. London based roles.
Luckily I’m now awaiting a start date for a new job I secured, but the application/interview processes I’ve experienced, aswell as the general recruiter behaviours were pretty awful.
Not only did most of the jobs require 4 technical stages with different people, the majority of the over-promising recruiters I spoke to ended up completely ghosting, and I would say 50% of jobs I am completely able to do, I did not get a response on.
Honestly, my advice would always be to build up and lean on your network for new roles, as it really is dog-eat-dog out there and companies are using AI screening for all CV’s most of the time (which imo is counter-productive). The role I just secured was due to me knowing a couple of people in the industry, which automatically gets you 70% of the way there instead of jumping through never ending hoops.
Her problem is outlined at the beginning of the article.
She left school at 16.
She’s on the backdoor with that before she starts to apply.
Yes the job market isn’t great (I’m unemployed writing this) but she still needs either experience or education to get a foot in the door. She’s neither.
Having just been out of work and got a job within 3 weeks, make sure ur cv is good and upto date. And don’t apply for stuff u can’t do.
I do often regret not doing a healthcare related role.
Said it before, but if you’re currently unemployed then the number one best thing you can do to improve your chance of getting a job you like is to have an existing job (*any* job) at all.
Factories, warehouses, care homes, cleaners, call centres, anything working night shifts and odd hours. The less you want to do it, the easier chance you’ll have of getting it. Work there for six months, turn up to your shifts, then apply for the thing you do want.
Yes the job market is hard, yes it will be a shit six months. But there are still plenty of companies that will take almost any warm body that turns up.
205 applications in 3 years.
Are you taking the piss.
I applied for 200 in a single weekend when my last job lost a contract and couldn’t keep me anymore.
200 in 3 years!??! What a lazy shit
You may see this from various angles:
1. The job market is so bad that even after 200 applications they still have no job.
2. They are so useless and unrealistic in their expectations that they are unemployable.
I recently did up to 100 applications over 2 months. 3 interviews and finally one job offer.
Not being able to drive was actually a deal breaker for some of the companies.
On paper, I have a very competitive CV for fmcg type middle management (skills, previous employers and experience). There was a point maybe 6-7 years ago that I could get an interview or response from 40~50% of jobs I applied for.
About 2.5 years ago, I started looking for a new role and found nearly everything guarded by recruitment agencies (all internal recruitment gutted by out sourcing and early AI). Those recruitment agencies do not respond to 99% of applications. I think I applied to 200 or so jobs over 6 months. At best had some introductory style calls where they were purely data gathering.
After a while just started back working the recruitment agency ads to who they were recruiting for and messaged companies or hiring managers directly. Was far far more successful.
I’m convinced LinkedIn jobs through agencies is a cesspool of fake jobs
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What type of jobs are people applying for whereby they can do 200 with no result? I’ve worked plenty of factory/warehouse type jobs and frankly they gave me the job simply because I turned up for the interview. These jobs are not fussy, unless there’s something seriously wrong with you, you’re in.
I’m guessing that a lot of these 200+ application people are applying for jobs well out of their league.
> Computer science graduate Jordan Smith is one of the older job-seekers in the room at 28.
> Asked how many roles he has applied for, he admits: “I’ve lost count.
> “It’s quite difficult and quite stressful.”
> After numerous job rejections, Jordan has turned his thoughts to an apprenticeship.
I wonder if these are all software related roles or if it’s unskilled work he has applied to? As he mentioned apprenticeship, it makes me think it is the latter, as apprenticeships don’t really exist in the software industry. You’re expected to be qualified (with some flexibility) from the day you apply, but you can’t be trained from 0.
Long gone are the days of walking the streets – cv in hand – walking into each and every shop and asking for a job.
Maybe people should try it.
*edit. Not sure why I’ve been downvoted. The “maybe people should try it” wasn’t a dig, just a comment.
The reasoning it isn’t done has been given and the GDPR aspect makes sense. I’m just saying how I got my first job a long time ago.
Applying for ‘dream’ positions or refusing, point blank, to work minimum wage because either it’s beneath them and their Bachelors (dime a dozen, by the way) or they just can’t do the basics when it comes to grafting and/or turning up for shift on time.
Presumably these sorts have to pay the bills like everyone else…fuck knows.
I will tell you this. The last 2 times I got a new job took me 400 applications. Took me 4 hours a day, 4 days a week for 4 months.
I’m quite fresh off of redundancy due to company insolvency (end of Oct) – middle management experience, but was open to dropping back down a step due to necessity. London based roles.
Luckily I’m now awaiting a start date for a new job I secured, but the application/interview processes I’ve experienced, aswell as the general recruiter behaviours were pretty awful.
Not only did most of the jobs require 4 technical stages with different people, the majority of the over-promising recruiters I spoke to ended up completely ghosting, and I would say 50% of jobs I am completely able to do, I did not get a response on.
Honestly, my advice would always be to build up and lean on your network for new roles, as it really is dog-eat-dog out there and companies are using AI screening for all CV’s most of the time (which imo is counter-productive). The role I just secured was due to me knowing a couple of people in the industry, which automatically gets you 70% of the way there instead of jumping through never ending hoops.
Her problem is outlined at the beginning of the article.
She left school at 16.
She’s on the backdoor with that before she starts to apply.
Yes the job market isn’t great (I’m unemployed writing this) but she still needs either experience or education to get a foot in the door. She’s neither.
Having just been out of work and got a job within 3 weeks, make sure ur cv is good and upto date. And don’t apply for stuff u can’t do.
I do often regret not doing a healthcare related role.
Said it before, but if you’re currently unemployed then the number one best thing you can do to improve your chance of getting a job you like is to have an existing job (*any* job) at all.
Factories, warehouses, care homes, cleaners, call centres, anything working night shifts and odd hours. The less you want to do it, the easier chance you’ll have of getting it. Work there for six months, turn up to your shifts, then apply for the thing you do want.
Yes the job market is hard, yes it will be a shit six months. But there are still plenty of companies that will take almost any warm body that turns up.
205 applications in 3 years.
Are you taking the piss.
I applied for 200 in a single weekend when my last job lost a contract and couldn’t keep me anymore.
200 in 3 years!??! What a lazy shit
You may see this from various angles:
1. The job market is so bad that even after 200 applications they still have no job.
2. They are so useless and unrealistic in their expectations that they are unemployable.
I recently did up to 100 applications over 2 months. 3 interviews and finally one job offer.
Not being able to drive was actually a deal breaker for some of the companies.
On paper, I have a very competitive CV for fmcg type middle management (skills, previous employers and experience). There was a point maybe 6-7 years ago that I could get an interview or response from 40~50% of jobs I applied for.
About 2.5 years ago, I started looking for a new role and found nearly everything guarded by recruitment agencies (all internal recruitment gutted by out sourcing and early AI). Those recruitment agencies do not respond to 99% of applications. I think I applied to 200 or so jobs over 6 months. At best had some introductory style calls where they were purely data gathering.
After a while just started back working the recruitment agency ads to who they were recruiting for and messaged companies or hiring managers directly. Was far far more successful.
I’m convinced LinkedIn jobs through agencies is a cesspool of fake jobs