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Sick of applying for Jobs

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2024ishell · 13/08/2024 21:30

Hi guys,
So try to make a long story short, in 2019 my mum died, I lost my job and my fiance was cheating on me. I decided a kick up the arse will do me good. I went and did my access course, went to uni got a 1st on my bachelors, now doing my masters heading for another first, all this on top of fighting for my childs ehc plan and being diagnosed with autoimmune rheumatic disease. Now, I have spent the last 8 months applying for jobs. I got a 0 hour working 1 day a week at a college to tick me over. This has now ended, I now spend 3 to 4 hours applying for jobs, this is to go through the job spec and making sure each individual point is hit on target (it's becoming tedious). I am so fed up of not even getting a response or an interview. In the 8 months I had 1 interview but someone with a little more experience got the job. I'm devasted by it at this point. I hate the word experience because we all know you need the work to get it (my point). Anywho, I am really struggling with maintaining the momentum to keep applying. I really want a good job, I have worked hard to get where I am and succeeding academically and even worked for experience. But getting a real full time position is becoming more of a fantasy at this point. Anyone else in the same situation?

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Pippielk · 13/08/2024 22:57

Didn’t want to read and run as it sounds really tough. My mum died and I got made redundant in the one year and that was tough and you have had more on your plate.

have you looked at graduate schemes through big employers? Even if you are older my colleagues came into work that way….and they were in their 40s.

3-4 hours every day applying for jobs sounds a lot - how many jobs per day are you applying for?

can you have someone in your University look over your cv or some of your applications or coach you to ensure you are selling yourself right…

something sounds off if you only got one interview in 8 mts - are you aiming too high/too low ?

Use chat GPT to help you write the applications - it does take some of the tedium out of it. I used to write my application roughly, paste in my cv and what I had written and ask it to rephrase my application.

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