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Lying about being a student to get a job
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Hi guys.
I phone a few agencies every day, have a little notebook of when they want me to call back and such, today spoke to one and the lady was nice and said they had some warehouse work in lutterworth (about 25 minutes from me so good), then she went away for a moment to check it I assume, came back and said;
"did you say you were a student?"
"yep"
"sorry, we're not taking on any students at the moment"
:crazyeyes
I'm tempted to just pretend I've left uni for whatever reason and then give my notice in september. It's really gutting because these are temporary roles too (with the 'potential' to become permenent) so nothing I wouldn't be able to do.
Spoken to some other students on another forum and it seems we are all in the same boat because of the credit crunch. Even McDonalds refused to interview me.
I phone a few agencies every day, have a little notebook of when they want me to call back and such, today spoke to one and the lady was nice and said they had some warehouse work in lutterworth (about 25 minutes from me so good), then she went away for a moment to check it I assume, came back and said;
"did you say you were a student?"
"yep"
"sorry, we're not taking on any students at the moment"
:crazyeyes
I'm tempted to just pretend I've left uni for whatever reason and then give my notice in september. It's really gutting because these are temporary roles too (with the 'potential' to become permenent) so nothing I wouldn't be able to do.
Spoken to some other students on another forum and it seems we are all in the same boat because of the credit crunch. Even McDonalds refused to interview me.
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Investment banks/financial services were all keen on me and my offer to study at Durham next year but temping agencies would only take me on when I edited my CV to say I had no plans for uni.
In my op, it doesn't really matter if its a temp job anyway and you'll be able to stay for the whole time. But you probably won't get a good reference if your employers find out later.
But I'm the sort of person who said she'd lie about the "little things" on today's poll, whereas I suppose you'd hit the "Never" option?
I'm an idealist *shrug*
Keep hunting, there are some places which prefer students. (charities who need people to stand on the streets, etc). I'm sure you'll get somewhere eventually.
Well, are you a student this week? Are you currently studying at uni? Nope, it's the holidays, so you're not a student. Problem solved and it's not really lying.
It's not lying, but on my CV and covering letters I say when I'm available from and til and that I'm looking for a temporary position. My (somewhat dodgy) uncle has said just lie cos if I'm only there for a few months it wont matter anyway.
And ballerina; I think its one of those things they can get away with. It's just annoying not to even get an interview.
Think from the employers side, why would you want to take on someone who is going going to be there a number of weeks.
You can always go for the 'I finished the year at uni and I don't know what I want to do next so looking for employment'.
Everyone is finding it hard to get jobs full stop these days; I know my employers aren't recruiting anyone at all at the moment, student or not. (It's really leaving the rest of us in the shit too, but that's how things go). So even if you did lie on your CV you might find it no easier to get a job anyway.
Might look at some volunteering opportunities in the meantime I don't think I can enrich my CV much more, volunteering took up a page already and has had to be condensed, but just to do something productive and not waste time. I've tended to find a lot of the time though if you do it 'formally' they get you to do a paid persons job so they can take a bigger wedge of profit.
Up to this point you have been in full-time education and achieved such-and-such grades, and have done whatever work experience.
If this is an accurate description then it is not a lie.
I worked out, if I don't work this summer, and sell some of my stuff (motorbike, xbox 360 and nintendo ds), I'm still going to be going back to uni with over 2 grand of debt so it might not be that far from the truth!
Not really. I suppose I could do, but its a fair trek and I enjoy getting to see friends for the summer. I've got a job there after the summer has finished...
I may as well have a look though, thanks for the heads up.
Begging works. :thumb: I guess if they see you're serious about work and want to chase them up when they reject you then its a good sign... apparently my CV does not have enough admin emphasis though...
As a rule though, while you should have a generic CV you start from, you should twiddle it for each job you apply for to emphasise your relevant skills/experience.
This particularly applies if you are a student, sometimes you'll be after bar work, other times work placement/experience relevant to your course, and then sometimes temp/agency stuff all of which will look for very different things.
Obviously only leave it as that when applying for Admin Assis jobs, and make sure you've put your name somewhere else on there!
I don't know how anyone expects a 5'3 guy to pick up a sofa chair kind of thing from above shoulder height! I can't even get my arms round it
But hopefully next week or so I should be doing adminny stuff. Need to be up at 5am tomorrow too
Lol, I did warehouse work when I was 18. Didn't like it that much but it probably kept me fit and moving things around can keep you strong too.
Sitting behind a computer all day is much worse - assuming you're not actually programming but doing something tedious and boring like data input is much worse than packing or moving boxes.
I did learn something very useful from my warehouse work. I know how to wrap a parcel properly. I am still fairly expert in doing that.
When is the best time to apply?