still available online, are you pretty much guaranteed you did not qualify for an interview for one reason or another. What is the longest that you have waited after submitting an online CV / Resume or online application for a job?
2007-02-24 15:22:01 · 5 answers · asked by PrettyEskimo 4 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
No, but I'm banking on 68 jobs, based on 12 different resumes and 48 CVs.
So, you can be the best candidate have a terrible resume and not get hired, be jackass, pay someone 50 bucks to perfect your falsified resume and get hired(if you win them over at the interviews)
2007-02-24 16:25:44 · update #1
Usually employers only contact candidates that they are going to interview. On-line posting usually generate hundreds of resumes. It would be much too time consuming to reply to every single applicant with an answer, be it good or bad. Also, it usually takes weeks to hear back as they have hundreds of resumes to sort through. Don't give up yet.
2007-02-24 15:31:00 · answer #1 · answered by ninecoronas2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have not received a response in 10 days, and the job is still available, you are still in the running. I have been called back and hired a month later. So dont worry about it.
The thing that worries me more about you is that you are sitting here and banking on one job. Do not ever sit there and dwell on applications. Make more applications to other jobs. EVEN IF YOU HAVE AN INTERVIEW. If you dont have a JOB you keep applying. You never know what will happen ever. Sometimes you can get called one hour after submitting your resume and then not even get the job. Many things can happen. The only way to guarantee success is spend a lot of time writing good coverletters and resumes, and perhaps follow up on them. HR people get 100s of resumes. I worked for a 10 employee company and we got 300+ applications for every job. You need a combination of luck and skills to get jobs. So keep it up and dont dwell on it.
2007-02-25 00:09:08 · answer #2 · answered by michael p 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of times a company gets 1000s of resumes submitted and it is very time consuming, so the company may use filters to search through the resumes to look for the best matches. So, take a look at your resume. If you meet all of the requirements listed, then I'd go back and revise your resume to have all of the key words in your resume. If your resume matches what they are looking for and is not simply a "one size fits all" resume (meaning you send out the same resume over and over no matter what the position is) you have a much better chance of getting your resume noticed.
2007-02-24 23:39:27 · answer #3 · answered by Searcher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the time, I don't even get a callback until I follow up on the resume. If the position is still available online, send another email reiterating your interest in the position.
2007-02-24 23:46:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I applied for a job in August of 2005 and weeks went by without any contact from them. I figured they hired someone else when the contacted me for an interview in late October. I was hired and started working of November of 2005.
I asked them why it had taken them so long to contact me and they said it was because they'd just converted from paper system to online application system and they were still working out the kinks.
2007-02-24 23:55:27 · answer #5 · answered by §Sally§ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋