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Don't you think I have every reason to complain, the way these employers are treating us job applicants??

No.

Stop bitching.

If employers are advertising job vacancies then its a sign that they already consider themselves understaffed, where are they going to get the manpower from to do all these replies. Also in these hard times how are they going to finance it?

With the silly rules the job centre have of forcing people to apply for a number of jobs every week, this exacerbates the quantity of applications unnecessarily, many of which may not be serious contenders or are not suitable.

I'm fairly sure the job centre will provide stationary and stamps to include a SAE with your application which may improve your chances of getting a response (perhaps include a proforma for a response as well), this may even impress the employer to the extent of taking you as a good candidate.

I have every sympathy for those people searching for jobs in this crappy economy of ours. We need a massive job creation programme right across the country. Jobs with decent pay, training and pensions etc.

But your constant moaning and complaining on this site isn't exactly making people sympathetic to your particular plight. Just keep this to one thread. Stop starting a new thread every few minutes just to repeat the same rants over and over again ad infinitum.

I keep a spreadsheet of my job search, when I send a cv I always call to make sure that its been received then on the spreadsheet I put down details of what I did plus the email address, telephone number and name of contact, I then flag it to chase up in say a weeks time.
So come the following week I have all the info to hand

AS for the DHSS they accept this and if they want to check they are welcome as everything is clearly list

Does it help get me a job? No, but it makes life easier for me.

Nomad

Nomad, way to much time on your hands!

lol, it does not take long to set up a spread sheet, and when I am doing my "have you got a job?" phone calls then all the infomation is in front of me

Nomad

Agree entirely Touchstone.

Jobneeded - my daughter is in exactly the same position as you, except she gets occasional interviews with no subsequent job offer. This is probably worse, getting so near yet so far, but she's doing something about it by going on all the many courses available through the Job Centre. However, if she feels like a good rant she'll do it with friends and family, not the world at large.

You've got to think if they did reply to every letter they got they would be bankrupt with in two months.

put it this way 50 people go on a course say TNG say out of that 50 30 want retail jobs, then it's put in the paper and 300 more people go for it, and then you've got 200/300 people the job center send for it on top of that you get people who send spec letters.

so at the end of the day they are not going to send over 600 letters out saying sorry you've not got the job, sorry but it true.

if you want a reply why not put a S.A.E. in with the letter you send

Goodluck with your job search jobneeded!

QFT

Franked mail costs 39p per 'you didn't get the job' not including the stationary used and the time it takes to write/print the letter. I'm not sure why you'd even need a letter, if you don't hear from us you didn't get the job. Is this not obvious?

Most job applications are on line ones, it costs nothing to send a email back to say thanks but no thanks, if someone has taken the time to spend three hours filling the hundreds of questions in on the application form then 2mins to reply to each applicante is nothing.