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From an employers point of view i find it hard that after advertising on job centre we recieve over 100 plus cvs and then have to sift through them all.
I have been known in the past to give interviews to people who merely pop in for i feel that it takes bottle to ask

Fair play.

Also, as an employer, I must add that what I generally do is shuffle the pile of CV's and then throw half of them in the bin.

Well it gets rid of the unlucky ones anyway!

HR do the big sift for us... then we just have a smaller selection! winning

However the last panel I was on there was only 5 applicants and all got invited to interview but only 3 turned up...

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I wouldn't want to work with you either

hahaha... wasn't even my department! They just needed my interviewing skills.....

I appreciate what you are saying, but when you have sent off HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of CVs like I have, and hardly ANY of them answer you, you start thinking to yourself, what has gone wrong with this country? Why is it so incredibly hard to get even an acknowledgement now, let alone an interview?

All my constantly fruitless job hunting - which has only been exacerbated by the mass silence of both employers and agencies after I have applied to them all - has left me feeling really bitter and angry and depressed. I have over 25 years of good, solid admin and customer service experience - yet not one single one of these employers has even bothered to acknowledge my application.

It is sickening. It is also extremely depressing.

No future for me at all on the Wirral. I HATE it.

Maybe, as previously stated many times, you need to look at your CV then. Any luck handing a CV in to all the places suggested that had signs in the windows? Or did they not fit into the job you want?

You do realise there are a lot of people applying for every job right? My mum has a friend who applied for a TA job in another school, she was one of over 400 applicants, do you really expect them to get in touch with 399 people to tell them they were unsuccessful? Then have some of them ringing up for feedback? I'd also like to know if you applied for any of the jobs people have said here, including the waterstones one you were so interested in?

I do wish some times people could be considerate to others in their plight to get a job.
I have a part time job, on tues i rang TWICE a phone number on job centre about another part time job, left my details and contact number as it went to answer machine and guess what they have not beein back to me. Well their loss, i shall not bother ringing again.

How dare they be busy for two days! I am considerate to people searching for jobs but not for those whining about it and expecting a job, feedback or an apology and a gold star at the end of the day just because they want one.

Maybe the person who is in charge of recruitment is off sick/on holiday/on a course/snowed under with work/inundated with applications/on compassionate leave etc and will get back to you when they can. I understand the frustration at not getting a human answering the phone or getting an instant call back, but I can also see that employers also have a job to do and it's not always possible to call back immediately or within 48hrs. Not every employer has an HR department or just work a M-F 9-5 week and have every weekend off.

Just trying to be Devil's Advocate

2 days o no

n how is it the job centres loss

them on the end of the phone rnt the ones wantin the job

or openin 641 letters off jobneeded

It was a mobile number i rang,understand they my be busy when i did ring but the message said to leave name and contact details so i did.

It wasnt the job centre i rang , i got job of the job centre site the phone number belonged to the place that had the vancancy.