My first day in my new house... and this is what happens.

 Before:

To this:

Survival of a University Student =) Tweet

Looking for a job. Anyone hiring?

Currently, I’m trying to write out a new CV. I’m failing miserably. I’ve completed a survey for Studentbeans.com, looked at volunteering experiences whilst listening to Pala by Friendly Fires on Spotify but at the same time looking for new music. Oh, and now my tea’s gone cold.

I am on Prospects website though, which is a start. I had my desk all sorted, hung up the washing, made myself a hot water bottle because my huge room is very cold and a Earl Grey. I’ve closed the door, stuck my headphones in; I am ready to work. I just haven’t exactly started yet. I’m blogging instead.

You see, my CV before was okay (confirmed by my Dad) but I’ve had a varied work life:

·         Audience co-ordinator for SRO Audiences

·         BHS Web Studio assistant

·         Christmas temp ‘sales advisor’

·         Data Inputting,

·         and quite a lot of volunteering (from Pride London parade to working in a Charity shop)

Who on this Earth would hire me with that work history?

Sure I’ve done the little experiences of waitressing but never the things that should actually get me a job. Such as; bar-tending, retail longer than just a Christmas temp, a real waitressing job or the promotions gig for the local clubs.

If I wanted to make myself feel better I could say that for some jobs I’m ‘too experienced’ for the silly weekend jobs. But that would be a lie. The real truth is when applying for the normal student weekend jobs; they didn’t even give me a chance.

I’ve had one job interview. I turned up an hour early.

I did get a tweet from someone telling me they had a job for me in Bournemouth but it turned out to be something really strange and American. And here I was thinking Twitter was amazing.

I’ve searched on all the job sites, food stores, contemplated the ‘make money from home’ job adverts and the only job contact I did have has left her job and I have no idea who’s taken over. I emailed her old email and that sent back to me in about 3 seconds of sending it.

I tried to pitch a catchy ‘hire me please!’ tweet to a Events Group but that never got anywhere and to add to that, I missed out on the recruitment meeting for Event Managers at a successful Bournemouth club because I was at work in London.

This kind of leaves me a little stuck.

My People and Performance lecturer is having a CV lecture/ seminar on how to write a CV this coming week so I don’t exactly have to worry about writing out my CV but it’s the where do I send the CV to.

I suck at telling people what I’m good at. I suck at telling people what I’m not good at. I suck at talking about myself in general.

However, I’ve learnt that most people have trouble at that.

This all ties into my placement next year but I’ll probably create a blog on placements etc. so you can read how un-employable I am, as if that isn’t easy to see already.

Anyway, I haven’t done anything on my CV except write out my details.

I have a covering letter and a CV to write for Freeze Festival (by today I think), another volunteering experience.

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