To Apply for a job with no experience but I know I'd be good at it?

[BlueandYellowandRed]

I'm debating and I don't want to make a fool out of myself. I think this job would be a great new challenge for me and I am very interested in the industry(interior design) I do have some qualifications but not university level. It's a design administrator job and basically it sounds like they need someone who keeps everything running smoothly. It sounds like a wicked job but I have never actually worked in interior design and I am prepared for refusal. Yup, I genuinely don't believe they wouldn't have someone more qualified or experienced applying for the job.

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I'd be working for my ex boss' friend. It would be fine and I don't see it as a disadvantage but I wouldn't want to get the job just because who I worked for previously.

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With this job I would have to make loads of phone calls and the description does say 'good written and spoken English is essential ' and I'm not a native speaker. My partner is and it's funny with him I never worry about my English but I worry if I am good enough for this job?!

HELP.

Go for it!

There was a study a few years ago about how women never apply for jobs unless they have at least 70% of the criteria asked for, whereas men will often apply when they only have 40% - just on the basis that they could probably do it (I've made those figures up - but it was something like that). You have nothing to lose, and won't make a fool out of yourself as long as you are honest and don't pretend to have any qualifications / talents that you don't have.

Your written English is great. Go for it!

Just go for it. Men often apply for jobs they are under qualified and under experienced at. What's to lose?

Ha! I'm a slow typist.

Since you have such a lot of reasons to go got it, just apply. You might or might not get the interview. Too early to get emotionally invested as it might not go anywhere anyway.

Not being too negative but you might just be what the company is looking for or you may not. Either way, fortune favours the brave. All the best.

Go for it. You'll always wonder if you don't give it a go.

100% apply. Re write your CV with your qualifications that hold relevance as the most significant, and just relate your experience to things mentioned in the job description. Even pick out words from the job description itself.

For example job description states "someone who is forward thinking"

Take an experience or something you've done that shows that and highlight it in your personal skills section - "forward thinking and take initiative for example did x and y in x role"

If you have no experience, then that must mean you haven't done the job before...so how would you honestly know (and be able to say to them) that you would be good at a job you have never done before

I say go for it, but be honest and say you have no experience

Out of the 9 requirements listed in the job description I can confidently ✅ 7 😊 There are 2 programs they use that I never used before. I wouldn't lie about my experience and I know I'm the right person because I know myself. I am a 100% honest with myself and I know the job would be a challenge but also know I'd do my very best to succeed at it.

Honestly and administrator is an administrator- so it’s whether you’re good at those parts of the job. You say you’re not native - o wouldn’t worry too much about your speaking (as long as your fluent - the odd slip of the tongue is fine). In fact in interior design an exotic accent can be a benefit. But- what’s your written English like - it looks fine from your post! I’d say go for it.

Definitely go for it. I cannot tell your not a native English speaker and ticking 7/9 boxes is pretty good.

I had no experience doing my current job but it was my ideal job and I was genuinely ridiculously enthusiastic about it and somehow managed to get it.