Should I phone?
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- save0
ha...weird..this place seems to be full of Northen monkeys.....I'm from a shitty place called Hull, you may have heard of it :( but I'm now working in Edinburgh....yeeeaaaahh!!!
- LouBot0
Did you see that Hull came first in the Crap Towns Book? It's not that bad is it? Edinburgh...thats a cool place to be - I'm still at college, looking for a job.
- runDMB0
If you sent the CV unsolicited you can probably expect to be roundly ignored unless it simply screams "I am fantastically talented" the moment someone looks at it. If you are replying to an advertised post then it would be common courtesy for the company to reply to you to acknowledge your application if nothing else.
My agency is tiny, but we still get a few hundred applications every year and 90% of them are looking for a job in the wrong industry if their CV is anything to go by. I do actually try to reply to them, but sometimes I just don't have the time.
I don't think I'd object to someone ringing and asking about whether their CV had arrived in the post, but if I wasn't interested, I'd say so and I would hope that would be enough. I don't want to have a conversation about where people are going wrong.
Your website looks good LouBot so I wouldn't have thought you'd find it too hard to find a position somewhere decent.
- ********0
Where are you studying?
- LouBot0
Unfortunately in Dewsbury - the college is a bit rough and it has crap resources, but they mean well.
Thanks for the comments runDMB!
- JamesEngage0
There are better, more modern ways than sending out CV's
- ********0
your portfolio looks ockay.
i wouldnt bother calling people who are not instantanious interested. but its a different thing if youre fresh from school. then maybe you should ring em up.
i once went to an interview and the people who i was going to meet were still in a meeting. they made me wait one and a half hour.
in the end i got the job but the one and a half hour wait should have given me a hint about that company cause it was utter shite.
- save0
hahaha...yeah, ive seen that book, and yes, Hull really is that bad. Its funny reading it cos its so true...
Are you looking for a job or a placement?
- rasp0
wow. thats weird. i got that book for my birthday.
yep, hull is THAT shit
(im from there too)