How to get an Interview?

When you send your cv the likelihood is that if you haven´t that much experience you may not even get an interview.

The reason probably is due to lack of experience, although some recruitment companies prefer that so they can mould you the way that the want but generally even if you are a graduate straight from university they will prefer you to have had some commercial experience.

So if you haven’t any experience then I suggest you start something straight away. The ideal background is sales as recruitment is fundamentally a sales job, but again it is even more difficult to get a typical sales job. So my advice is sell advertising or double glazing, it may not be the most prestigious sales job , but in the time it takes to find you ideal role you would have gained some valuable sales experience. It may seem hash and generally at this point the graduate runs away, but the most successful people have done some thing like this to kick start their career, because if you can do commission only you can do anything. In addition the training and experience you will gain will be put to good use later. If it still worries you just think of it as free sales training!

Hopefully by now you have some experience on your cv and enough to get that interview, but if not then the next option can sometimes work. Follow up the cv with a call to the manager and then sell yourself to him and don’t get of the phone until you have an interview. It is incredible how few people actually do this these days. I can guarantee they will try to put you of but do not take no for an answer i.e. “you do not have enough experience” is typical but over come it “I understand this but what I do have is a desire to work within your industry because….” etc

In the end you may get to the point were they will give you an interview just to get you of the phone, then the rest is up to you.

It is also worth noting that if you have experiene or you have a trade or studied certain subjects like Accountancy, then this can be a lever for some recruitment companies such as Accountancy recruitment companies, welding recruitment, nursing recruitment retail recruitment. the list goes on but I hope you get my drift.