l4toffee
Player Valuation: £40m
same here . I've been out of work since last March . I've started doing voluntary work for the time being just to keep me busy and it looks good on the cv .
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I did voluntary work too. Definitely a positive on the c.v.
It always helps too if you get asked in an interview -what have you been doing since you last worked? It beats saying playing Candy Crush and watching Jeremy Kyle in my pants!
There are loads of organisations desperate for volunteers. Food banks could always use helpers. I did a bit with Citizens's Advice
flippa
Player Valuation: £750k
I agree totally- not only does it keep you going, and gives some structure to your day, it also gives you the opportunity to demonstrate at interview the skills you've been developing/ fine-tuning ( e.g. team-work, time-management, leadership, initiative, planning, public-facing/ customer relations etc). And, to an employer, it demonstrates that you are giving of your time, and that you care about the community you are in- all positives for an employer. I think it also builds your confidence to be able to talk about yourself at interviews.
For @mitchell1996 and @l4toffee (and anyone else)- from an employer's perspective: I have recently had to trawl through 50+ applications for a job I'm helping interview for. In that process, having a really clear, easy-to-read CV is vital (if it's hard to read, it's going to put employers off), but the most important thing is a strong supporting letter that clearly shows what skills/ experience you have that will be directly useful in the job, and how. So, you don't necessarily have to have had like-for-like experience, but you have to be able to "sell" yourself, and to demonstrate how you will fill the specifics of the job description. It's always good to get someone else to look at this for you too, as typically we don't often talk ourselves up (especially if you're feeling depressed from being out of work for so long).
I hope that's of use, and please feel free to send me a message if you want to ask for any specific advice
l4toffee
Player Valuation: £40m
thanks for that. Some good advice there . Thanks a lotI agree totally- not only does it keep you going, and gives some structure to your day, it also gives you the opportunity to demonstrate at interview the skills you've been developing/ fine-tuning ( e.g. team-work, time-management, leadership, initiative, planning, public-facing/ customer relations etc). And, to an employer, it demonstrates that you are giving of your time, and that you care about the community you are in- all positives for an employer. I think it also builds your confidence to be able to talk about yourself at interviews.
For @mitchell1996 and @l4toffee (and anyone else)- from an employer's perspective: I have recently had to trawl through 50+ applications for a job I'm helping interview for. In that process, having a really clear, easy-to-read CV is vital (if it's hard to read, it's going to put employers off), but the most important thing is a strong supporting letter that clearly shows what skills/ experience you have that will be directly useful in the job, and how. So, you don't necessarily have to have had like-for-like experience, but you have to be able to "sell" yourself, and to demonstrate how you will fill the specifics of the job description. It's always good to get someone else to look at this for you too, as typically we don't often talk ourselves up (especially if you're feeling depressed from being out of work for so long).
I hope that's of use, and please feel free to send me a message if you want to ask for any specific advice
flippa
Player Valuation: £750k
No worries- and feel free as I said to fling any specific questions (be it CV worries, writing a cover letter, selling yourself at interview etc) at me- I've been on both sides and happy to try and help if I can
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l4toffee
Player Valuation: £40m
Thank youNo worries- and feel free as I said to fling any specific questions (be it CV worries, writing a cover letter, seeling yourself at interview etc) at me- I've been on both sides and happy to try and help if I can
Dan. I have only just seen this. It is easy to say but have experienced similar. Nobody can take what you do not have and a business takes over you when it is bad. Get advice and if killing it is best then do. You can then start again and debts will be sorted even via a cva. Your wealth or lack of it is not who you are and once you face that, bit by bit the burden falls away. Good luck fella. Get some advice and re-start your life.
Thanks Rob. I think I'm on the first stage of doing this debt thing, started earlier today.
My head's all over the place today. Feel/know I've defo failed the exam I had this morning and thought I'd prepared for very well over the last 2 weeks or so.
What a hammer blow to my already negligible confidence this is.
Off for a nap before 3 consecutive nights at work then.
What a hammer blow to my already negligible confidence this is.
Off for a nap before 3 consecutive nights at work then.
Why do you think that?
Because it's marked out of 100, minimum I need to pass is 40, and I haven't really done enough to even reach that.
Are you sure? There is a tendency to come out of exams and focus on all the stuff you got wrong rather than what you did well. And even if you don't pass, you are not defined by exam results. Some of the most well qualified people I know haven't got a scrap of common sense and are actaully complete tossers.
Just from reading your posts here and in other threads you seem like a sensible, funny, warm human being. There are no qualifications to give you that.
I have OCD and have suffered with depression in the past, most recently in the past 2 years.I have written a blog for the Time to change website and thought id share it with you guys. http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/blog/surviving-depression-support-my-friends
Yeah, sadly I'm sure. I had 0 clue about 2 (and a half) topics, and one of them hadn't been in this exam for the last 7 exams (so 4 years)... but of course it was now; the second topic was heavily featured. Basically out of 12 questions I could only do 4 tops and then everything else I kind of ad-libbed, knowing some of it is wrong.
I know it doesn't define me but this means I wasted 3-4 years of my life that I can't get back, and I feel very, very shitty about it.
And thank you for the kind words, but being like that has gotten me nowhere so far, sadly.