I have applied for many jobs but get no interviews.
A couple of agencies have told me it is because of a lack of experience in the last year or two. However, this was largely due to personal problems and depression. So how to fill the gaps - courses, helping others, explaining how I have searched for jobs.
IT industry so unwilling to train candidates for entry level jobs.
This culture in the last 5 years seems to rely on the individual to continuously train yet this is not enough. For example, it costs money to get IT certification, do a degree course and then go the extra mile either by volunteering or somehow getting the experience before getting the job that gets the experience. This is a big issue considering the amount of jobs and people job switching. Degrees are wasted because no one recognises the fact that I have transferable skills and can also pick up the more demanding aspects of the job quickly.
Unemployment.
It appears that unemployment ensures a much harder route back to work. Companies just do not like to invite people to interviews who have been out of work or have only done short term work in recent months. There appears to be a culture of poaching people from one job to another and job moving. This is good if you are in a career already and want to move ahead but leaves the stop gap jobbers and unemployed left to network and work for nothing to find better work and seek out those lucky opportunities.
Building a presence.
A CV only gets you so far. A good Website, demo or portfolio (if relevent) helps but since 90% of careers seek experience and often a lot of it in the same role things are not looking good for gaining broad career experience. Grabbing the bull by the horns helps as long as debt does not become an issue. After doing call centre jobs, some admin and some industrial work it is not nice to have to do even more of this whilst trying to get a proper job that I will enjoy rather than one that may just get some money in.
OVERALL I FEEL LET DOWN BY THIS MONEY GRABBING CAPITALIST SOCIETY AND THE WAY IT IS RUN.
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