What is more effective at landing an interview? Applying online for jobs or going to every business in your town or a town near you and dropping off resumes? I usually look in the paper and apply for jobs there and most of them give the option to email a resume or apply online on their website. I also look on Monster, Careerbuilder, craigslist, and my state online site that has jobs listed on it. Is it better to hit the pavement?

Depends on what type of jobs you are looking for.
Monster seems to be dominated by head hunters, ok for professionals like engineers.

Most places are moving toward the web based systems. I write up my resume and supporting information, several pages. Then when I apply on the web, I cut and paste.

Networking is still the best way. Follow up applications with a phone call after a week. The human contact is important.

I don’t think voluntary work is a bad idea if you are retired and have a few hours spare a week or if you are unemployed and needing to add to your experiences with say 4 to 8 hours of voluntary work a week, to get your benefits.

I do believe that it is reasonable to expect the unemployed to do some voluntary work as it would help them adjust to the work environment and not become accustomed to just waiting for a hand out to get by. However, I would not expect an unemployed person to do 16 hours or more a week because this number of hours could provide a decent income for someone needing a second income in the home where the primary full time wage earner is struggling to support the bills and the general costs of living.

I’m a bit concerned that voluntary workers could be used to replace job holders. Its ok to accept a little help to say keep a small public library open or a small swimming pool by reducing the wage bill of say one person in each,, but surely you can’t reduce it altogether. I certainly wouldn’t want to see the lifeguard in a swimming pool replaced by voluntary workers, would you?

As you can see I am a little wary of what the full impact of the "Big Societies volunteering scheme" can do.

What it’s full impact will be upon the job market.

I recognise already that whenever I have had the need to job hunt myself in the last five years that often the same jobs are advertised time and time again with various agencies and websites and having been a job searcher, you just know that there isn’t – 20 Admin posts with blah blah company. There isn’t 20 Social workers posts with such and such an authority. But in adding up the adverts you could find 50 adverts for the one post. Multiply those 50 adverts by 100 applicants per add and what do you get. You get 5.000 people applying in truth for one post. That is how chronic the job market is for job searchers.

Thrown out into the job market through cuts in social services, welfare bodies, the nhs etc does not mean that those workers will step into a job in the private sector as the private sector is also struggling.

The 25% newly qualified air force pilots now redundant will not automatically step into touring company air line posts. Although they may well step into some "jobs for the boys " type posts in the remaining quasi authorities and commissions well supported by the Tory party.

So what do you make of it all?
BTW MP’s in Britain Earn as Mp’s a salary between 70k and 90k any other monies over and above that comes from having second jobs. As speakers, executives of industry and other businesses, some have second incomes from being accountants or solicitors. So the ten big things about our European partnership is not entirely correct. But to rectify them might take a book.

Big Society is another name for a Big Brother Police state where everyone will be required (forced) to do some work for nothing. It will only apply to working class and some middle class people.

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