Job applications

[Thegrassroots26]

Hi,

I don’t really want to pay £85 a year for word and my subscription has run out.
a job I have seen wants a cv and a one page document cover letter.
seems daft, but how am I meant to send them a document when I don’t have word!
I thought about google docs but my google account is telling me I have no storage.
Job hunting is hard enough but this is annoying! I’m now seeing the point of those apps where it’s all in an online form…

Could you do it from a library? Lots have free to use computers

I guess I could, it it’s not exactly ideal. I’ve managed to get the cv in a pages document. I wonder if the cover statement could just be in the body of the email.

There is a basic free Word you can use. I'm not sure exactly how but Google "can I use Word for free" and it explains it.

If you cancel then they offer you the £60 version without useless copilot.

Just write it in Google Docs and then save it as a Word doc (Save> as .doc). Then attach the document to the email.

I’ve never paid for a word processor in my life. Didn’t know anyone did anymore. The entire Google Suite is free you just have to sign up.

Thanks. I will try that. My personal google account was telling me it was full and I couldn’t type a document, no storage. I have a work google account but feels a bit wrong typing it there…..

Perhaps I should sign up for a whole new account if my other one is saying no storage, can’t start a new document.

You’d send it as a pdf surely, not word (or pages).

Can’t you just delete some old documents to make space? Check under storage on your account what’s taking up all the space and get rid. Or, yeah, make a new account.

Ive just paid for the one month whilst job hunting, will cancel ones I’ve secured a role. There free versions were driving me insane.

You can also buy more Google storage for far far less than £85

I just wrote my CV on my work laptop , I wfh though so I didn't have to write it during work time

And this is correct. Unless they request Word Doc specifically I’d always send as a PDF.

I think it’s photos that get backed up that’s making the account full. I’ve never used it for documents.

Yes that's what I do, I always send as pdf

Yeah just checked and it’s photos . So I guess I have to pay for extra storage to type a doc?

I guess so. I’ve never stored photos on Google… you could also go through and delete some. Docs take up a lot less storage than photos generally.

Download LibreOffice. It's a free basic set of MS office-like software. Never found I needed anything better for personal use

Or you can just make a new account specifically for docs with a new Google email.

Yeah I’m not sure why it does it either! I’ve deleted some photos and now have an open doc! Thanks for your help.

If you’ve got Pages you just export as a pdf.

You can get microsoft office for £10 on groupon. Not the membership one.

I use Google docs now, but discovered i can also Microsoft stuff online, just not from my files. I get to it by clicking on the onedrive cloud logo (bottom right on my laptop) and choosing 'view files online' or something similar.