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Original poster

to hate hate hate hate hate doing job applications

34 replies

wineoclocktimeyet · 27/02/2012 19:44

I know I can do the fecking job standing on my head and am most certainly the best person for the position :)

BUT it takes me fecking hours to write "why I am applying for the post and how well I meet the requirements of the person specification"

and after spilling blood to get it right, I know there will be 2,000 other applicants and it will end up going to the boss's niece.

Bitter, me :(

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jjkm · 27/02/2012 19:52

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ThisIsNotMyLife · 27/02/2012 19:53

I know the feeling. I spent christmas, christmas swotting for a job interview. Was dimissed at the morning meet and greet after two minutes. Angry

LeoTheLateBloomer · 27/02/2012 19:54

Are you in an industry where you can have a fairly generic statement that you can just tweak for specific jobs? When I was teaching that made life sooooo much easier.

LeoTheLateBloomer · 27/02/2012 19:55

And btw, YANBU. It's shite. You have my sympathies.

gamerwidow · 27/02/2012 19:57

When I was last applying for work I had a generic statement which I modified for each application to highlight the areas mentioned in the job description.

It is dull though especially as when they ask you why you want the job you can't write "FOR THE MONEY YOU FOOLS".

blackeyedsusan · 27/02/2012 20:00

yanbu. did hundreds of the damn things and never did get a permanent position.

MumOfAPickle · 27/02/2012 20:02

YANBU. I can't bear it. Spent about 4 bloody hours on the last one and didn't hear a sausage Angry

DartsAgain · 27/02/2012 20:10

I feel your pain. I spent nearly 3 hours this afternoon on an online application. The only good thing so far is that most of the info I input is retained for future applications through this website.

redexpat · 27/02/2012 20:13

Yes it's awful. Sympathies. Does doing everything in notebook so you can copy and paste into every application without messing up the format help?

southeastastra · 27/02/2012 20:25

thisisnotmylife, what happened that you were dismissed so soon?

i agree with op - it's taking me days to write some applications, i sort of want to cry when i see another 'why are you good for this job' type question

Original poster
wineoclocktimeyet · 27/02/2012 20:56

I'm glad I ANBU

Good luck to everyone else job hunting unless, of course, you are going for the same jobs as me!

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Morloth · 27/02/2012 21:31

Job hunting is bloody hard work.

At the interview for the job I git u was faced with three people all with notepads and all asking questions that were not very relevant to the job other than they made me think quick on my feet.

I was shocked by how low my confidence was for this as well, I am a very confident/gobby person usually, but looking for work after 4 years off really rattled me. It took me 6 months and I think the main reason for that was when I started I had forgotten how to play the game.

Good luck.

aldiwhore · 27/02/2012 21:41

YANBU at all at all at all.... I have never before got a job the 'conventional' way, and now there doesn't really seem to be any other way in than fill out soul destroying forms, questionnaires and make your CV sound so anal and wankatronic that even I wouldn't employ me.

I have accidently sent a few sarcastic copies out... I'll probably have more luck with them.

In the meantime, I daydream about owning a cafe by the sea and winning euromillions.

Good luck and hope you get something fab soon.

SwimmingThroughSickLullabies · 27/02/2012 21:50

Oh I feel your pain it has been 13 months now of this unemployed mullarky and I am completely disheartened dismayed and out of energy with it all.

I have applied for anything and everything and still no luck. Someone on come on here and tell us there is light at the end of the tunnel Xx

detachandtrustyourself · 27/02/2012 22:05

I just want to say, "It is near my home so will cut travel expenses and minimal childcare to pay for. I will be reliable because it is rare to find such a job so I won't want to lose it. "

joanofarchitrave · 27/02/2012 22:09

Am up to 23 applications. Tiny compared to many but I'll be getting on for a week of my life before I finally get a job I want/give up.

What about just getting a friend to interview you, posting it on Youtube and sending out the link? I have been fantasising about doing that.

Takeresponsibility · 27/02/2012 22:12

Good luck with your application. I have written 25 feedback letters to staff who didn't get a job on temporary promotion. Approx two pages each only to find my colleagues have written about three lines on their feedback letters.

Still think I'm right and they are wrong especially when I read threads like this.

ninah · 27/02/2012 22:15

yanbu it is doing my head in already

madhousewife · 27/02/2012 22:16

I thought it was just me!!! I spent HOURS filling out my application, only to hear NOTHING and since then I'm telling you I can not, CAN NOT face doing another. I have NO IDEA what employers really want to hear, and do they actually READ the drivel I've poured on the page?
Like the idea of sending off sarcastic applications - it would be therapeutic I think!

joanofarchitrave · 27/02/2012 22:18

[weeps and clutches Takeres's sleeve]

Thank you for doing that. Most of the adverts I apply to say 'no feedback on applications'.

Lexie1970 · 27/02/2012 22:22

I feel your pain, I have just started a thread on the poxy ethnicity/religion crap questions that are asked - just why the hell do you need to know this - it doesn't affect how I can do the bloody job!!!

MummytoKatie · 27/02/2012 22:25

I remember the pain. Dh was made redundant last year and it was awful. After months of not a sausage he got offers two jobs in one day and is now pretty happy in one of them.

Good luck.

ninah · 27/02/2012 22:27

lexie the ones I have are asking about sexual orientation also! there's a never ending appendix of monitoring questions

joanofarchitrave · 27/02/2012 22:33

Monitoring questions always optional aren't they?

ninah · 27/02/2012 22:34

yes I believe they are. 4 pages of optional crp all mixed in with the other stuff, you kind of get onto a roll and keep filling, i swear they could ask me anything by p12