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Theres a few companies that I would love to work for in the marketing / communications sector in my region that I live, that I would love to send my CV into.
I'm not really sure which method is the most effective.
I could ring the company, actually visit them and bring the CV to the front desk, email them or send them a letters.
Theres a few companies that I would love to work for in the marketing / communications sector in my region that I live, that I would love to send my CV into.
I'm not really sure which method is the most effective.
I could ring the company, actually visit them and bring the CV to the front desk, email them or send them a letters.
Advice would be great
Check their website online and see if there are any jobs listed. There may be some listed there which are not mentioned on other job boards.
If there aren't, check the old postings and find the most current one. See the name of the person who is in the HR department, and call the company to verify the name of the person. This makes it seem as though you are sending the resume particularly to someone and the receptionist is more likely to be helpful and not just tell you there are no openings.
Also, and this is minor, but I am guessing you are British (or from somewhere not in the US originally) based on some of the wording of your post, and I would make sure to refer to it as a resume and not a CV. I know they are the same darn thing, but I would hate for yours to end up tossed aside because the computer (or new HR person) doing the sorting doesn't recognize the wording.
...I would make sure to refer to it as a resume and not a CV. I know they are the same darn thing,...
The terms 'Curriculum Vitae' and 'resume' are generally interchangeable. However, few people know that they do differ in many ways. It's true that both are lists of the most relevant information of a person pertaining to job seeking and both are used for the same purpose ― i.e. seeking employment.
The CV is the most accepted form for job applications all over the world. You would find some basic variations in the order of presentation from country to country and sometimes from company to company. However, in terms of content, it basically remains the same.
Usually, such companies have a website somewhere that allows you to submit a resume for general consideration. While I've never gotten anything out of this, it certainly can't hurt - the worst they can do is ignore you, and most of us unemployed are used to that by now.
If I were venture to guess, if there are no openings, your resume will be tossed. At my employer, you must apply online, and you cannot apply for a job if it is not posted as being vacant. Resumes received for non-posted positions are simply tossed. Why would we look at resumes if we don't have a vacancy? Sorry, but that's just the way it is. If I was in your position, I would call HR and ask them how they post and fill positions.
You can find real contacts from companies that you would like to work for. I've known about this site for a long time, but really never ventured to check it out till now. I just registered and you get an initial 10 points to retrieve "contact information" such as emails, etc..
Looks like they have a point system, to where you can purchase points, to use to get contacts.
You can also use Linkedin. Search for a company, and depending on how much information people put out there, you are bound to dig up some info on important people in the company. If you can just find one real email address for someone within the company, that will give you alot of information.
1) The email address usually follows the IT's policies on naming conventions for how they created the email account. If you find just one.. you can guess to what the person's email address is, of the person you really want to contact.
If you find by chance someone's email address and it was firstname.lastname@company.com and you found out from another source that the manager of marketing.. or manager of accounting department's name is Jerbroni Canofwhoopass.. Then there is a really good possibility that jerbroni.canofwhoopass@company.com will be the contact email for that important person.
Another way to find out contacts is by a utility called WHOIS.. Its originally a unix utility, but there are sites out there that provide these tools for free use. Its mainly to check on the registers for domains, etc.. You can find a wealth of information by poking around this way..
CVs are typically much longer than 2-3 pages, depending on one's history. Mine is about 7.5 pages.
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Here, the CV would be used exclusively for jobs in academics.
Not quite true, CVs are typical for many non-academic positions that involve scientific / research work. I cannot speak for other fields, but in mine (pharmaceutical research) CVs are what are expected, not resumes - and this is for white-collar positions in both private and public companies.
If I were venture to guess, if there are no openings, your resume will be tossed. At my employer, you must apply online, and you cannot apply for a job if it is not posted as being vacant. Resumes received for non-posted positions are simply tossed. Why would we look at resumes if we don't have a vacancy? Sorry, but that's just the way it is. If I was in your position, I would call HR and ask them how they post and fill positions.
Not always true, but it really depends on the situation. If you know of a company that is lacking a specific talent or skill that would be very useful, you have a contact there you can talk to, you have that skill, and have the track record to back it up, you can sometimes create your own job out of thin air. It goes something like this:
"Hi pal, that's an interesting company you're working for, but don't you think you'd do even better if you had a guy who could do this and this and this?"
"Hmm, I guess you're right, but I don't know anybody like that."
"Well, as a matter of fact I have ten years experience doing exactly that."
"Really? Let's set up a lunch meeting to discuss this further."
Believe it or not I know several people who got jobs in pretty much this way.
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