CVs and Interviews

I am always bleating on about being proactive in your job search. Yes you have to cover the easy bases like job boards, agencies and papers – as I see them here everyday. However if you really want to step it up you can do much more.

Let me tell you about an experience yesterday. I received the below email with a CV attached.

Good afternoon,

I have recently been made redundant and am looking to be placed in a company free of charge to gain experience.

I have 8 years HR experience and would like to become a consultant at some stage. I do need to gain experience however.

I hope you could consider this proposal, as I want to put my time off to good use while offering my skills and experience to the company

I admired the “get up and go” attitude so I returned an email to request that the individual call me in the afternoon. We talked and I decided to inform a few of my corporate clients about the offer. One hour later there was one request. Now this is where I stepped out of the equation and put the two in direct contact. To be honest I don’t know if anything came of it…..

What do we learn from this ….

1. This individual is seeking permanent work BUT by offering services for free they are gaining experience and plugging a hole in the CV. She was also making loads of new contact in the meantime.

2. This individual is keeping busy – one of the worst things about not working when job hunting is the time element. Most people think about their situation and get themselves down.

3 This individual is putting themselves in the shop window if they get in to an organisation – could lead to something else.

4. This individual asked for help. You will be surprised what help people will give you if you just ask. There are some great people out there (that includes me)

Careers & Outplacement Ireland – MEASURABILITY

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