I live in the NW UK, I graduated from university in June, and I have an OK CV; I have a lot of volunteer experience, and some job experience that has been revised by my brother who checks hundreds of them. I also have a fairly useless, but scientific 2:1 degree.
I have applied for what must be hundreds of relatively low skilled jobs, and even had a few interviews, but I never get anywhere. From what I can gather, I am always beaten by someone who has more experience, as well as a more normie friendly personality (I am charming and fairly confident still).
Can anyone give me some advice, I literally just want ANY job, or please can a brit user hire or be a reference I can lie about.
I can't help get the feeling that Britain, and the West as a whole is just on the brink of a total collapse. Nearing two decades of education is not even sufficient enough for you to scrub a toilet.
Michael Miller
Sell molly >(I am charming and fairly confident still) I'm an asshole, unqualified and shower like twice a week. Usually when I got fired I apply for at may 8 jobs and can even chose among 4 most of the time. Maybe move to a place with more demand
Justin Richardson
Not sure how things are in the UK, but in the US, there are plenty of 35k/year + full benefits jobs that will hire any warm bodies in a nationally low-cost of living area. That's not even exoneration.
Are there any marginally physical jobs in your area like that? Do you think your problem is that you're looking for the /wrong/ job? Like a job that 2000 people would be applying for? If you're just in need of income for now, there has to be some seasonal work available.
What's your degree? Employers don't like hiring overqualified people. If you're applying to be a burger flipper, they'll look at you like you're crazy if you have a degree in physics.
With any 4-year degree and decent communication skills, you could get a job at a financial services company on the phones. (call center). Those jobs near me pay 55k/year and have very high turnover. I worked there for 3 months, lol. It sucked.
In general, the key is the interview. You need to connect with the interviewer somehow. People hire people they want to be around, especially in small companies. If not that, you have to be uniquely impressive somehow.
Dominic Adams
Don't forget to clean up your social media. I check a lot of cv' s and the first thing I do is check their Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. I have chucked a lot of cv s after seeing some arsehole shit on their Facebook. Or massive contradictions between their cv s and LinkedIn.
Jayden Gray
There are no relevant jobs to my degree but I still apply for even more technical ones and it never goes anywhere.
I even apply for seasonal work/temp work and they do not respond back to me.
I can connect in interviews, and I can have a very good conversation, but they still don't go anywhere.
There are a few call center jobs around but this is not something I am going to apply for, mostly because of bad prior experience ( I think the tone of my voice makes me unhireable for this).
I haven't applied for physical jobs yet because it has no career path, and I have to get equipment and qualifications to start. Looks like I may have to do this
Nolan Bennett
What is with those who don't have social media?
Daniel Jenkins
No social media whatsoever
Andrew Jones
these As far as social media is concerned, I don't exist. What happens then?
Tyler Evans
I wouldn't take that as a huge red flag. Just saying that a lot of times I'll see something that will completely put me off on their social media. Recently had a guy apply for a junior management position , just out of college but good solid app and I liked his cv. Head of department called him on speaker next to me and the guy had a voicemail prank. You know archer style, the hod hung up , looked at me while he ripped the cv in two and handed it back to me for the bin.