Something for seacreature
 

Just got declined a position of.... yeah - seacreature will know - a bank teller :D :D :D

Here is an exact text for your enjoyment:

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Thank you for your interest in employment opportunities with TD Bank Financial Group. We received your application for the position of Customer Service Representative - Full Time & Part Time.

We have reviewed your application with great interest, however, we are currently pursuing candidates we believe more closely match our current requirements for this position. Your online profile information will remain available for future reference.
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At least they reviewed my scaled down resume with "great interest". They could have done it with no interest at all, right? I am so thankful :D :D :D

Re: Something for seacreature
 

Funny!
At least you got a reply which is more than I ever get.
I have written a wonderful resume which I intend to take around my local banks over the next week before work.
It's start to finish Customer Service & Cash Experience. Any chance of success do you think?!

Re: Something for seacreature
 

You might be positively surprised! At least I wish you that! Just don't give 'em any slightest impression that you might have ever performed anything more complex in your life than a teller job. :D You will fit right in! :D :D

Something I just learned while speaking to a 'newcomer' friend. This guy was from Brazil with an MBA and experience from there and tried for one year and never got a call. So he wrote a total *bullshit* resume and applied for a bunch of retail job. Soon after that he was employed for 8 bucks per hour, and then steadily progressed up to $12/per hour within several months (still in retail, but...) - all of that on a totally fake and fully bullshit resume. See... apparently they don't check the accuracy of facts disclosed on a resume when applying for these crappy jobs. And not all of them may end up being crappy.

Re: Something for seacreature
 

Wow....$8 per hour.....I'd lurve to earn that!!! Exactly the same thing happened to me. I didn't lie on my resume but although the person I dropped in to see read it and I told her I had my references with me she didn't want to see them. She told me that the Front Desk job I'd gone in for was a few weeks away (heard that one before!) so I said if she had anything I could do in the meantime if it didn't stop me applying when the time came. I started that week but I'm sure if she could have got me to start then and there she would have done. I've just finished my training and they'll let me loose on Friday on the graveyard shift. I'm only paid $7.15 per hour but its a first job, has a transportable skill set and I'll get references. I'm still down to do housekeeping, mixing the two makes life quite interesting and gives me a full time job not part time and gives me a well needed workout :D . Shouldn't have taken me two years to get to this point but at least I have!

Re: Something for seacreature
 

I have to confess that I did the same thing once.....after a long period of unemployment, I was desperate and I faked a really mediocre resume, got rid of qualifications and management/budgetary/legal experience/tax (most of my UK career)....and got a "job" within two weeks demonstrating sewing machines. The guy who hired me stated at interview that he didn't hire immigrants if he could avoid it, but that since I was "just a housewife" with no real skills (i.e. no threat to him and his cronies) he would give me a break. I relayed my gratitude to him by giving explicit details as to how he could insert his job offer into his posterior along with his Husqvarna. :o