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Sometimes "sophisticated begging" works well which is staying in contact through email as a follow to express your interest.
Yeah staying in contact. I'm guessing that's only if you've had an actual interview..not to check up on the status of your application. But the problem with email is they can easily ignore it.
Am I the only one who thinks we'll wake up tomorrow and find out this was all an April Fool's joke, done early?
Hmmm, now that I think about it, that's possible, lol! Okay, the OP should dress up as the company's mascot, if they have one, and parade around someplace public, like a flash mob. Maybe it will go viral? Is that desperate, or creative double promotion marketing?
If they don't have a mascot? Pitch yourself as this company's brand new marketing director.
Don't forget to bring your quantitative data to the table. They want to know that they're getting more value from you, than you cost them. Everything's about cost vs revenue.
If they say no? Score whatever insider/proprietary knowledge you can get about them, and head to their competitors.
I recently heard a story about a job applicant who called up the boss of the hiring manager after business hours, to inform her that she really needed to hire him. When it became clear that he wasn't getting anywhere with that approach, he changed his tack and started demanding to know why in the world she wouldn't hire him.
No only did she not hire him, she told the employer's HR department about the aggressive tone of the conversation, in case he decided to escalate his demand for a job any higher up the chain. I wouldn't be surprised if begging resulted in a similar response. Most bosses really don't dig unconventional approaches.
I recently heard a story about a job applicant who called up the boss of the hiring manager after business hours, to inform her that she really needed to hire him. When it became clear that he wasn't getting anywhere with that approach, he changed his tack and started demanding to know why in the world she wouldn't hire him.
No only did she not hire him, she told the employer's HR department about the aggressive tone of the conversation, in case he decided to escalate his demand for a job any higher up the chain. I wouldn't be surprised if begging resulted in a similar response. Most bosses really don't dig unconventional approaches.
It'd be better to beg for an interview, not that that would be the way to go either.
Beg for an interview, and you are guaranteeing you will not get an interview.
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Sometimes "sophisticated begging" works well which is staying in contact through email as a follow to express your interest.
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Yeah staying in contact. I'm guessing that's only if you've had an actual interview..not to check up on the status of your application. But the problem with email is they can easily ignore it.
Again as pointed out above, a lot of email, and so called sophisticated begging, and your application goes into the circular file (wastebasket). Trying to force a decision by sounding real interested and acting like you are going to get an answer right away, and keep asking for your status is a huge turnoff for HR and HM.
I can understand being desperate for work/job but begging in that sence is not going to look good. You need to be professional and begging wouldnt do it.
I hope you can find something, really start throwing applications out there.
Beg for an interview, and you are guaranteeing you will not get an interview.
Again as pointed out above, a lot of email, and so called sophisticated begging, and your application goes into the circular file (wastebasket). Trying to force a decision by sounding real interested and acting like you are going to get an answer right away, and keep asking for your status is a huge turnoff for HR and HM.
Well if I just fill out the application and don't contact them, I wait forever for them to respond and they never do so I can't win that way either. When you don't even get an interview, you need a way to stand out. People will say if you want a job, you need to take action. How is waiting for a reply taking action? It's inaction. If someone is making me feel like a loser, I'm just supposed to sit and wait? By letting them ignore me I am validating that I don't deserve a job. Why even bother putting forth the emotional energy of applying since that's the case? I mean even when I have asked as many places as I could in my city for help on getting a job, they don't really respond either so if they don't respond then why would an employer respond either? With everything else I've done I've had to so to speak get in their face to even get a response...like a gift card I was owed to by a survey company I had to call them AND send them like 5 emails to get them to respond. It worked on them so it should work on an employer.
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