It's not just jobseekers who need to improve
With reference to the article ‘Sort out your CVs, jobseekers told’ (Feb 7), Job hunting in Dubai would appear to be a frustration to everyone involved.
You have the recruiters who feel their time is being wasted by unprofessional, irrelevant or disrespectful CVs being submitted by job seekers then you have the people who are applying for the jobs.
Having been involved in recruitment within small business and large multinational FMCG, it seems that Dubai is definitely special in its recruitment process. Misspelled subject lines and poor email addresses are par for the course, English not being a first language for many creates this scenario. However, there are those job applicants who have taken the time to ensure that spelling and grammar are correct on their CVs, that their covering letter explains why they are applying for the position and the photograph is clear and clean (back home, if you requested a photograph on an application it would be considered discrimination but not in Dubai).
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Despite candidates taking their time, some recruiters don’t even acknowledge with a response. The “only successful applicants will be notified” is a load of rubbish! I have been on the receiving end of silence and it infuriates me that someone cannot be bothered to provide any feedback for future reference.
Respect works both ways.
KM, Dubai
3 Comments
by ExpatEddie
Sunday, February 10 2013, 5:43PM
“The problem is when there are such 'open' advertisements for jobs then sheer volume of responses is not possible to reply to everyone particularly as responses won't always be relevant to the job but just anybody slinging their CV around!”
by Yuzhnaya
Sunday, February 10 2013, 10:39AM
“and how are you expecting recruiter to reply ALL the candidates?”
by Gavtek
Sunday, February 10 2013, 8:58AM
“I think you underestimate just how many people apply for each vacancy, it would take hours to provide feedback to each applicant, and most of the time the feedback would be along the lines of "as you are an experienced telecoms engineer with no relevant qualifications or experience, we don't feel you are suitable for our chartered accountant position".
The last time I put a job advert on "a popular classified advertisement website", I had well over 100 applications in the first hour. After 2 hours, I had to remove the advert as my e-mail couldn't cope. Out of all of those applications, about 5 people maximum had bothered to read the advert and were actually suitable.”