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Need a new job desperatly.
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in Work & Study
Well ive tried looking for a new job with agencies. Im lucky if i can even talk to them once a month let alone hearing anything from any of them. Apparently they are sending my cv off but i never hear anything else from them even when i do speak to them about it.
So ive spent the last week or so calling a bunch of companies with most not even telling me they recieved my cv fine, let alone a 'sorry we got no jobs etc'.
So what now, im desperate to get a new job and move but the agencies dont seem to be doing sod all for me, and calling companies has resulted in nothing too! I cant go knocking on their doors either due to me working full time and where i want my new job to be.
Ive been applying for graphic designers/ artwork type of jobs along with jobs in the gaming industry. I know quark, 3dsmax, photoshop, flash, html and currently do leaflets and advertising for my current employeer. But what can i do now, what other jobs can i apply to with these types of skills, even if it isnt a creative one but something that isnt warehouse for example. I havent even been offered one sodding interview yet which pisses me off more than anything. So where to apply for now, what type of jobs or what else can i do? I need major advice and help.
So ive spent the last week or so calling a bunch of companies with most not even telling me they recieved my cv fine, let alone a 'sorry we got no jobs etc'.
So what now, im desperate to get a new job and move but the agencies dont seem to be doing sod all for me, and calling companies has resulted in nothing too! I cant go knocking on their doors either due to me working full time and where i want my new job to be.
Ive been applying for graphic designers/ artwork type of jobs along with jobs in the gaming industry. I know quark, 3dsmax, photoshop, flash, html and currently do leaflets and advertising for my current employeer. But what can i do now, what other jobs can i apply to with these types of skills, even if it isnt a creative one but something that isnt warehouse for example. I havent even been offered one sodding interview yet which pisses me off more than anything. So where to apply for now, what type of jobs or what else can i do? I need major advice and help.
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I do hassel them quite a bit too, around about once a week, but its often hard trying to get a hold of them which bugs me.
I think you have to hastle agencies loads - always get them to ask for feed back about you and ask then for advice about weather they really think you've got the right experience for the jobs they are putting you forward for. They could be putting you forward for unsitable jobs just to make up the numbers.
That's true, I remember going for a Store Manager job with Orange via a recruitment agency. I don't know who was more disorganised, Orange or the recruitment agency - it came to nothing because they were noth bysu blaming each other for lack of communication (not from me, I might add). Kind of ironic really.
Someone rang from an agency and tried to get me to go for a Logistics IT role. Odd considering that I have 1 years experience in retail store ops, but none in Logistics/IT whatsoever!