That's good stuff - thanks. I think I need to get my head around the fact that I can't convey what I need to in bullet points, which is how my CV is currently set out.
84% of our clients get new careers via the unadvertised job market
Would i need crystal ball skills to find a job here?
Oh, and why dont CV and interview pro's NOT have the best jobs?
Cheez0... Crystal ball.. not at all. A good network and the confidence to proactively contact people or companies speculatively. 84% of our clients get roles this way. 55% are currently working, 33% get new careers within 3 months, 66% in 6 months, the rest inside a year. There is no magic here, just commitment on the clients part to do this and work this way
A lot of people who I work with have a past career path over many years of networking into roles rather than responding to adverts or working with recruiters. This does not suggest for a moment that recruiters are not helpful, just fewer of our clients are successful this way.
CV's and recruiters have good jobs which are put into the public domain and if you respond to them you are competing against all the other folk that apply. Have a look on Reed who display the number of applicants and in many instances the little blue number bottom left can easily go into three figures. Plus if its a company site that attracts a large volume of applicants, odds are that your cv will be machine read for convenience. Where do you think that all the folk coming out of Comet and the like will be looking in the main? And your potentially amongst them looking in the same place...
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