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I have applied for 20+ freelance design positions today, lets bet I dont get any good responses - why do they all hate graduates? We gotta start somewhere!!
Ok, Rant over...
Ok, Rant over...
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What type of free lance work?
Happy belated b-day by the way. . . :birthday: (I've been itching to use the b-day cake all day)
It's 4 months since I graduated and I'm sick of working in a bar! lol
But thanks for the cake
Often if you can demonstrate the talent, the drive and at least a little experience you will get the break.
Susie
That's not right at all! Where does she live? Cos I have been looking everywhere for design jobs and have seen so many for senior designers!!! I haven't yet seen 1 job for anyone with less than a years experience and loads of the job ads state 'No Graduates'. It's really getting me down now cos I've had 4 rejection letters in the last few weeks, am beginning to think I'll never get a 'proper' job!
I am ina similar situation as yourself looking for a specific job field and applying left right and centre for jobs! I was to be a software developer or a programmer of some sort, failing that i would settle for working as a computer technician (software or hardware).
But like you i am in the situation where every job i apply for requires at least two years experience. However i aint getting my self down about it. I just keep going to the job centre once a week and seeing what they have going.
I have a degree in computing and im struggling to get a job too. so i wouldnt get yourself too down, i have got a huge pile of rejection letters in my drawer next to my bed!! The job is out there for yousomewhere but you just havent found it yet!
Chin up, eh? kid!
Hope you find a job soon aswell matey!
Plus with joining a recruitment agency you can almost believe your in league of gentlemen. 'Good morning job seekers!' - ah Pauline.....
You might want to do that so that they have something to look at to see how good you are.
This is why I am so stuck and dunno what to do next!!
I think this would be the best way to enhance your CV in order to get a job. Bumblebees web design idea was good too.
Good Luck x
Faith, I feel exactly the same. Five months since the university close, and I'm still licking those 1st class stamps clinging onto that remote bit of faith. (No pun intended as that's your name as well).
From my Excel spreadsheets I've compile my stats as regards to my job hunting:
Number of jobs applied for: 80
Number of responses: 28
Number of rejection letters: 6
Number of interviews: 2
Number of job offers: 0
Also, I'm sending unsolicited letters/CVs off to local engineering/IT companies. So for, I've sent off 43 of those.
The people who respond (the figure '28') are the ones who got back to me with an application pack in the post. Apart from that and the rejection letters, the response rate is quire dire.
Maybe I should have given up education when I found out that I had 9 A-C GCSE passes back in 1995. Most jobs only require 5 A-Cs.
I _was_ hoping to train as a commercial pilot, as anyone who knows me well, knows that I'm addicted to aviation and anything that starts with Boeing or Airbus (yeah call me a freak if ya wish ) - Due to those bloody afghans attacking the US last year all the airlines have pulled out of sponsorship on training pilots. To fund Pilot Training myself would cost atleast £100,000 in this country... and atleast £60,000 in the US - Such a shame
Anyway to all you graduates searching for jobs, I wish you the best of luck, please keep us upto date if you do get a job !
This will be of interest to you because it cropped up through one of my unsolicited letters. I notice that you are doing the same. By sending out these letters and CVs, it means that the targeted companies will have you on file when a job vacancy arises. You will be able to 'catch' out the vacancy before it gets posted into the local rags or the job centre.
I'll let you know what happens when I recieve the phone call this afternoon. My mum did suggest me to go tempting for a while, but I'll see what becomes of this first.
Good luck with the phone call matey!
It is very rude when people don't reply to the letters especially when you make the effort to place them in A4 envelopes, unfolded. 45x 1st class stamps and 45x A4 envelopes is not cheap! Out of the 45 unsolicited cases, I've had 3 replies, one being this interview.
I've just started in one, doing sales, although I am thinking about doing some exams in either marketing or design....can't decided which route to go down.
It is annoying looking for jobs I have every sympathy with you. keep trying and you will get somewhere. It took me just over a year to find this job. I spent the time temping through agencies etc. Must have had about 20-30 interviews and applied for hundreds of jobs. I got a couple but just didn't likethem when I went for the interviews. Now I keep getting letters back saying they're offering interviews to ones I sent off for just before getting this one. Damn annoying...had nothing for ages and now i can't get enough. grr....!
But there is a job out there for you. Don't dispare and keep looking. Good luck
that's what I'm trying to do! I sent 30-odd letters to design agencies trying to get a job and have applied to quite a few....but they all want at least a years experience. I'm only doing freelance cos I can't get a job with an actually design company. I don't wanna do freelance but it's the only option at the mo.
Okies...sorry I mis read you earlier....:)
Good luck mate, hope you get it
I had the same problem when I finished uni. It took me over a year to get a job - sorry! Of course I temped in the meantime as a receptionist but the money of course wasn't as good as a graduate job. Did you do a sandwich year? I found it so frustrating that all the jobs I wanted wanted experience, but no-one would bloody well give me any! In the end, I took a job in the field I wanted, but not doing exactly what I wanted. A year and a half later I used that experience to finally get the job I'd wanted when I left uni. So hang on in there & take anything you can! Someone will give you a break some time.
Thanx for the reply Barbie
I didn't do a sandwich year, my course didn't offer that. Which is a pain cos at least that could of counted as experience. I've been doing bar work since Aug cos I thought it'd just be temporary, but I'm going to try and get some temping work this week since it looks like it's going to be for a while longer!! I'm doing freelance in my spare time so I'm hoping that I can count this as 'experience' when it comes to applying for jobs!
It's crap that there's so many of us in the same boat after leaving uni!
Ta for everyone's replies though, makes me feel a little better
Its always experience isn't it?!
I'm not sure whether is was a good thing or not, but with my latest job interview (Fri 15th), I wrote a letter yesterday just thanking for the opportunity to have this interview and the fact that I'm disabled will pose an advantage because this company deals with disabled people only. They're interviewing one more candidate tomorrow, and (as of last Friday) there were a couple of other people in the pipeline.
Thanks Faith, Kazbo and Barbie for sharing your stories here, regarding experience.
Just been reading your posts and thought i would drop u a line
I did GD at uni but dropped out to take up a position at a design studio, it was'nt all it was made out 2 be and now I work 4 a bank AHHH! anyway I keep myself busy be doing freelance design, its taken me ages to get off my arse and get on with it but now I feel a little bit more focused. Im looking for someone with the same idea to help out and get me a bit more motivated. Drop me a line if you are interested ? info@tastii.co.uk
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