Career Engineering (2)

In a previous post I talked about Career Engineering as a topic but now this is something that we are offering as a standard group of services. Our website http://www.gbcsrecruitment.com has full details on the Services page. The idea is to provide jobseekers with the opportunity to enhance the way they present themselves to employers.

It was really sad to hear on the BBC Breakfast News this morning a report on a person who had been an Operations Manager, was made redundant over a year ago and has since applied for 300 jobs without gaining an interview. That is terrible! Not just that he has been out of work for that long but because there has to be something wrong with the way he is presenting himself to employers and that nobody seems to have helped him.

As a recruitment company, it is against the law to make a charge for improving the CV of a person that wants to register with you or applies through you for a job. But you would have thought that someone would have given him a hand or he would have been able to access all the free information that is available.

As I don't know anything about the guy I can't comment on his skills, qualifications, experience, but I doubt that he would have got to a senior position without some level of ability and so there has to be something wrong with his CV, presentation skills (actually, he hasn't got that far) or he is simply applying for the wrong jobs. Like two million others he is in a desperately sad situation.