Why is it that we spend all day trying to apply for jobs??? We spend ages trying to make ourselves look suitable for a post... then apply with c.v and covering letters..... with name address, phone numbers and e-mail addresses included for the prospective employer to send feed back ( even if you don't get the job!), and as per you get nothin or at least almost nothing!!

just yesterday i did recieve a short e-mail from a job that i applied for and to my surprise it read,..................... Thankyou for applying for the post of.... blah blah blah blah blah............. we are sorry to inform you on this occasion you application was not considered as we feel you have far too much experience for this posting????????? WHAT THE HELL????????? How in gods earth can you be over qualified?? i spent 16 years in school,... studying........ a full year taking exams to help find my perfect job just to be told that it was a total utter waste of my bloody time!!!!

just goes to show why the hell we even send our own kids to school????:mad:

Don't worry, when I first started the hunt for a job I got a similar repsonse from about 30 interviews. It's not that you are unsuitable or over qualified, it's probably that there was lots of candidates that were more suitable at this time than yourself. (including interanal applicants aswell)

Use each and every interview as a learning experience and take away good points and bad points and put them into practice at the next interview. Ask lots of questions including ones about benefits and what the Company would offer you, ie qualifications, specialist training etc, ask what the career prospects are and defianatley swat up on the company before you go into the interview.

Consider it a blessing that you didn't get the job, I'm a strong believer in
fate. Somthing better will be waiting for you around the corner.

Good luck in the future:thumbsup:

I know what you mean madasahatter! Would it be too much for employers to make a 20 second phone call?A simple "thanks but no thanks" wouldnt kill em would it? When I have been hiring staff in the past I have always made a point of calling everyone who took the time and effort to come to an interview so they knew where they stood. Its the least you can do if you aren't giving em a job

Hi, I've had the same experience in sheffield, I'm only a student but i've applied for god knows how many jobs over the past 2 years, generally shop work etc as i have plenty of experience of that and i never once got a response from any of them but the moment i applied for a job back home for over the summer i was rung back the next day, asked for an interview and then given the job there and then. maybe its just a city thing!

I sympathise with all those looking for jobs who never get a reply as I have had the same happen to me. However when there are a great many applicants looking for the same job who won't get it, the cost of making phonecalls or administering replies by post is too high to make it practical. If, for instance, there are 200 applicants and it takes on average 5 mins for each call, it would take over 16 hrs to make the calls! Trust me, some people want to chat for 'hours'. Just think how long it would take to reply by letter and the cost of postage. I used to work WITH the Employment Service on project called the Countryside Job Bus. It was a mobile Job Centre and I.T. Training bus where anyone over 16 could come and learn computing. This problem of 'replies' cropped up often and we felt sorry for those who waited in vain. In a way it seems worse not to get a reply than to be told, "No".

I think the "over qualified" remark was a cop out and rather than say, "No, you're not suitable, they thought it to be a flattering put-down. I wouldn't let one person get to me like that, it would make me more determined than ever.

I wish you all the best of luck, at least you are trying to find work.

Dave

I sympathise with all those looking for jobs who never get a reply as I have had the same happen to me. However when there are a great many applicants looking for the same job who won't get it, the cost of making phonecalls or administering replies by post is too high to make it practical. If, for instance, there are 200 applicants and it takes on average 5 mins for each call, it would take over 16 hrs to make the calls! Trust me, some people want to chat for 'hours'. Just think how long it would take to reply by letter and the cost of postage. I used to work WITH the Employment Service on project called the Countryside Job Bus. It was a mobile Job Centre and I.T. Training bus where anyone over 16 could come and learn computing. This problem of 'replies' cropped up often and we felt sorry for those who waited in vain. In a way it seems worse not to get a reply than to be told, "No".

I think the "over qualified" remark was a cop out and rather than say, "No, you're not suitable, they thought it to be a flattering put-down. I wouldn't let one person get to me like that, it would make me more determained than ever.

I wish you all the best of luck, at least you are trying to find work.

Dave

i too have had the knock back for been too qualified i'm a qualified ijection moulder setter and i applied at a firm as a operator start at the bottom and work my way up when a setters job became available nope.

i was too qualified for the operators job and i wouldn't last i'd get bored of it, fair enough an injection moulding operators job is mind sapping but it was a means to an end.

thanks for all your feedback............ unfortunatly i've upset a few people in writing this??? to hell with the lot of em!!! n the previous post has been deleted............. so much for freedom of speech!!! upto now i've never been out of work since being 16 ( i'm 26 now) i ain't claimed any benefits or any social grants.... nothing,.... yet i'm being picked on for speaking about my personal views on how britain is run!!! that and the fact i have 5 babies and 1 on the way........... political madness gone wrong!!!!!!!!!!

life is not about luck. things don't just drop on a plate. you are responsible for your situation & have to take personal responsibility for improving it.

if you're applying for a lot of jobs & you're not getting any response, you have 2 basic options:

1. bemoan your lot, as if you have no control over it
2. change the thing you're moaning about

improve your cv, improve your covering letters, improve your followup phone calls, improve your personal network, improve your skills, put together a website that makes you look as employable as possible.

i have 5 babies and 1 on the way........... political madness gone wrong!!!!!!!!!!

And you're only 26?
If this isn't a wind-up I think it's pretty obvious why no-one would want to employ you.....

Wot do you mean by that comment???? is that a reference to myself or cause i have so many kids??!!! at least i'm trying to find work, and taking the time to apply for all kinds of positions......... i dont claim any benefits and i personally don't want to,,,,,, if i were bludging off the social or claiming unemployment benefit, maybe your reply would have been so much different! please think next time before making innapropriate comments like that!!!!

yeah i had the same problem, applying for numerous jobs, but then i decided to work from home and i found it to be so beneficial, no boss to answer to, no worrying about what to wear everyday, when will you have time to comlete everything else in your life. I started and its been so easy, and the money is better than what i had been earning prior. I would give it a thought

Ask lots of questions including ones about benefits and what the Company would offer you, ie qualifications, specialist training etc, ask what the career prospects are and defianatley swat up on the company before you go into the interview.





Very good points but you can come across to strong unless you are applying for a high position within a company.

And you're only 26?
If this isn't a wind-up I think it's pretty obvious why no-one would want to employ you.....


watch urself....

hes my fella and hes worked damn hard its our choice to have as many children as we have, if they r being looked after fed loved put to bed clothed and clean then that has nothing to do with the first post he put on,,

hes having trouble finding a job not being a father

and his commitment to the job he had was 100%

I have found that shef uni is very very bad for responding.. You don't even know if they have recieved at application form most of the time!