to think that at least ONE of the bloody jobs I've emailed an application to should have the decency to at least ACKNOWLEDGE my application??

[wickedwitchofwestfield]

in the last 4 weeks I've sent 31 applications for various nanny jobs I thought looked interesting.

have any of them got back to me?
have they heck!

I've got a well laid out CV, excellent written references scanned in, a dammed good cover note, my CRB scanned in for them to see from the off...

WHAT THE HELL!!

even a bloody auto messsage acknowledging my application would be nice

hurumpth.

Maybe they think you would be out of their price range because your cv is so organised and posh looking?

Are you sure your emails were sent? Not bounced back due to too many attachments?

Wicked - I have applied for several jobs recently, and emailed recruitment agencies at their request with my CV, sent follow-up emails and heard diddly-squat. Harrumph indeed. Am thinking of resending emails with copies to managers ...

PS I give up on formatting these fecking messages. It never works.

shesells - maybe I should put how much I am asking for?? I think I'm quite good value as it were

iam - I've checked my spam+inbox, no messages sent back, and I've messaged my other email address' and they seemed to have got them ok

CJ - same here!! I bloody emailed an agency who sent me there standard 'thank you' email and that they'd be in contact - this was last week!!

ps - I give up with the formatting too, I've tried it a couple of times+no joy

their standard

will that work I wonder??

wicked - I sent the first email in early December! Resent it early Jan (allowing for Christmas grind to a halt), eventually rang to check I had the right email address. Stupid woman was 'on her lunch' (don't tempt me) and when I said I'd heard nothing was told 'she's been very busy' - for SIX weeks? Isn't this what she's supposed to be doing - replying to people looking for work? Words fail me.

CJ - that is appalling!!
what does she mean she is busy??

what area are you looking in?

It was just a basic recruitment/temping agency - I'm looking for anything that will bring in some money while I look for a 'proper' job, ha ha.

It's just rude and it makes me cross. People have no manners these days!

Good luck with your search ... love the name, by the way.

yeah, I'm looking for temp work too... but I had grand designs that I could just temp for the next year until I finish my NVQ3, then get a placement in a school so I can do my early years foundation degree or early childhood studies degree... shockingly, it doesn't seem to be working out that way

WHO WOULD HAVE FUNK IT?!!

you know what, I totally agree with you about people having no manners these days, its quite sad.

ah well, onwards and upwards eh?

good luck in your search and thanks re:name

ps - well done on the formatting!!

If I were you I would telephone as a matter of course a day or two after sending your CV.

Apart from making sure it arrived, it also marks you out as someone who really wants a job rather than just sending out 100s of standard applications to keep the dole office happy ... You know that's not you, so let them know!

Good luck with job hunt.