The UK they say is abut to return to recession in 2012, and all industry sectors are going to be hit by it. The quarterly results from various fashion houses and retails across the spectrum are coming back with a spectrum ranging from fantastic performance, to businesses going into liquidation. The overall trend is that there is no doubt about it – the global market is tough going. Today is the 16/01/2012 and if you look on the news, you see that the ‘powers that be’ were right for a change – we are back in a recession in the UK, only that we have been in recession for the last quarter too. The truth is most business operators and half the people in the UK could have told you that the country was in recession. Check here: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16571049
Ok so what options does that leave the average job seeker? Well many graduates have post-poned jobs hunting in favour of up-skilling, with people crammed into university. The uplift in tertiary education was badly timed (or not as the case may be) and had some effect though, if students cant find jobs, what options do they have – leave the country or study. So lots are studying. Others are still applying for jobs left, right and centre…. If you are a graduate and competing against another 1million unemployed graduate job seekers – what advice could I give you?
Here goes…first register with as many agencies and job sites in the UK as you can. Yes they take time to do so, but hey time is something you got anyway. Simply run a jobs search on google as register with the first 20 job sites that come up. Each site will take around 10 minutes for you to create a job seeker account, that totals to 200 minutes – that’s nothing. Next register with recruitment agencies in the same way. In terms of your jobs search strategy, this part is carpet bombing. Your objective here is get your CV out there as much as possible. Let your Cv work for you. The more you get it out there, the more it can work for you and the chances of you getting a job increases. Your job search does not end there – apply to companies directly too. Before you go and register with every job site, though remember that you need a good CV. Speak to CV professionals first and consider throwing some money at it too. Then when you have the perfect CV, then your jobs hunt begins. don’t just register with generalist job sites and agencies either, spend some time on the search engines and see if you can find specialist job site catering for your niche.
As this is a fashion site, let me give you some example within fashion employment / jobs arena. Go into google and search fashion jobs. google will come back with a whole mix of fashion jobs sites, some of which will be generalist job sites and some that will specialise in fashion jobs. The process of registering with these sites will be the same, though their client base will be different. It is this difference that makes it worthwhile. Remember that one fashion jobs site will have different clients to another and it might just be that while the one site will bear no fruit for you, just because you went through the same motions with another site, does not mean that the next wont prove to be very beneficial… good luck with you fashion jobs hunt.